Wikipedia:Editor engagement
Growing Wikipedia and its community
Editor engagement projects encourage the growth of the volunteer community that builds the free encyclopedia. They include efforts to retain existing editors, as well as to engage new contributors to participate on Wikipedia. To advance these goals, the Wikimedia Foundation is working with community members on a range of new projects, which you can read about below.
We call this the oh $#!& graph.
In early 2007, the number of active editors plateaued and then started decreasing. The rate at which new editors stick around plateaued even earlier, in early 2005, and then dropped sharply. These numbers haven't improved.
Please get involved: look at the data and research, join our active projects, help us make our technology and our processes better. Be bold and do the unexpected - everyone is a leader. March 2011 Update
—Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, in an appeal to engage more editors on Wikipedia.
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Here are some of our most recent reports and milestones.
At Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, we asked some of the participants for ideas on how to make Wikipedia better.
Here are their suggestions. Watch the short video slide show on the right -- or check out the individual pictures in this photo gallery.
Thanks for the inspiration!
A new version of Article Feedback is being gradually deployed on English Wikipedia, where it is now at 10%. It engages readers to make suggestions about articles they are reading — and invites editors to improve these articles based on this feedback.
Product managers, community organizers, developers, designers, and analysts. Template:EE/Profile/15
Here's a short list of our current projects aimed at improving editor engagement. Check out each talk page for comments or questions!