On 2016-01-08 07:27, Samuel Klein wrote:
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy
<[email protected]> wrote:
More broadly it would be good to know if wikiprojects are good for
editor recruitment and retention. My hypothesis is that if someone
if someone tries out editing Wikipedia and is steered to an active
and relevant wikiproject then they will be more likely to continue
after that first trial edit. I simply don't know whether introducing
people to inactive wikiprojects is worthwhile or what the cutoff is
on activity.
That's probably right. I think a nice cutoff on activity would be:
ask all wikiprojects to come up with a banner to show to a subset of
newbies, to indicate how many newbies or impressions they want (what
they think they can handle), and to create a page/section with an
intro and projects for newbies, if they don't already have one. Any
project that can manage this is welcome to get a few newbies to work
with if they want, in my book.
Actually, already knowing how many WikiProjects are alive (for example,
I watch several, and most of them are dead) would be already valuable.
May be even posting a question at the talk page of every WikiProject
whether the project is alive and able to set up smth would give the
answer. (Number of watchers certainly does not - many projects are
watched by a lot of inactive users).
Cheers
Yaroslav
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