I know that I was recruited to Wikipedia from then-competitor everything2, it would be interesting to find active users who joined during E2's precipitous decline, match their accounts and compare editing styles.
cheers stuart On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Jan, > > It's a fascinating topic and one that interests me as well. > > But you have to be careful with your assumptions, our data is almost always > based on user accounts, but we'd like to think we are looking at people. > Some of whom will have different accounts over time. Some of the > involvement will switch between projects - apparently half the founding > Wikidata community were previously active in the movement. Some will spend > periods of their volunteer time off wiki - many very active volunteers put > time in as Arbcom members, OTRS volunteers or chapter trustees. > > > Volunteers are very very different to staff or even subscribers, barely 16 > years into the project we simply don't have the data to workout longterm > patterns of retention and reactivation, but the signs so far are that > Wikipedia is beginning to look like other volunteer organisations that > people have a multi decade relationship with. > > A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former editors, partly to learn why > they'd left. One of the most common responses was "I haven't left yet". > > WSC > > On 20 March 2017 at 09:34, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittr...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am looking for research on how editors transition through various > levels > > of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are: > > > > - How many people to come each month? > > - How many editors leave? > > > > …those are not too difficult to answer but… > > > > - How many people become more involved over time? E.g. How many each > month > > come to a level where they are interested in handling many pages on the > > watchlist, learn the less obvious aspects of wiki culture etc. > > > > In my work as designer I am often involved in features for intermediate > > and/or very involved users and I’m wondering if there are any ballpark > > estimates of how many people learn these features each month. > > > > Jan > > > > -- > > Jan Dittrich > > UX Design/ User Research > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > > http://wikimedia.de > > > > Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in > the > > sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter > > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
