Helping people better understand Wikipedia is very useful, but because it's much more difficult to measure than checking whether someone is still editing four weeks later it is perhaps under-rated.
On 30 May 2014 17:10, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 May 2014 15:35, rexx <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the question of the very low conversion rate of editathon editors >> into regular editors is a well-studied problem. > > > I'm fairly relaxed about it. > > Anecdotally I know some people I've trained have returned to editing after > a long period (a year or more), or have continued editing occasionally, as > IP editors. Others may not have edited again, but act as advocates, telling > other people that they can edit (and this includes librarians and > archivists I've trained, who speak to potential new editors every working > day). Even if all we achieve is to get someone to stop decrying Wikipedia > as unreliable, or to donate in our yearly drives, that's something. > > One of my trainees, for example, wrote < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisel_Haas> and never edited again (at > least, not from that account). Wikipedia is still better for having that > article, and I'm glad that the effort I invested resulted in it. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Richard Nevell Assistant Office Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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