Here's an analysis of editor retention by an experienced game designer, from Wikimania 2014 - maybe a useful alternative perspective: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHH6935o00&ebc=ANyPxKoZi0X3rcWLT3K4m0QxTsbLXm4Wcj0gOSoEBSPW2_DU4u4VBVCwMd0_8bX-f6IuzJPTfGkf
Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Feb 2017, at 08:25, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22 February 2017 at 16:40, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: >> what mattered to me was personal appreciation of my work--just as it did in >> my primary career. Not form notices, but individual public comments that >> from people who showed that they understood. There is no way of automating >> that. The virtues of wikiprojects (and local meetups) is of extending that >> appreciation more broadly and more intensely. > > Automate, no. Encourage, yes. > > I can imagine a tool that located editors working mainly in the area of a > wikiproject (i.e. 3/5ths of their last 50 edits over three or more weeks, > maybe) who had not had much recent obvious attention from other editors (no > third-party edits to their talk page in that time) and once a week send each > person signed up to the wikiproject a notification with a link to encourage > the wikiproject participant to give that editor feedback on their work. > > In short, a private prompt to send a public feedback. 95% of the feedback > would probably be positive, but it might also find one or two of the more > subtle types of vandal. > > cheers > stuart > > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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