Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Groups and discussions

Initiatives

This is a raw initial list that needs updating

• Create an easy-to-understand essay for requesting unblocks
• Reward established editors that might not be noticed otherwise via Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week

Current working groups

• Pact
• Retain new editors
• Retention and return team

Other areas of the project

• Retired editors list
• Retired editors questionnaire
• The care and handling of New Editors

Why do editors leave?

• Retired editors questionnaire
• Discovered reasons given for leaving Wikipedia
• Nine Reasons Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Identifying editors who have left, or who are at risk of leaving

• FA editors list
• Retired editors list

Discussion

Main Talkpage discussion

Current discussions

Current discussions

General discussion

List of current sub-discussions

Administrator retention

Comments by editors as they retire

Reasons editors leave

Wikipedia:First contact Essay

Peripheral links suggested by editors

• Contribution Team
• Editor engagement
• Editor review (defunct)
• Editor Trends Study
• Employee retention – A similar concept
• Findings from the Wikimedia Summer of Research
• Former Contributors Survey Results
• The metrics report card that the WMF uses.
• Imagine others complexly
• The MoodBar
• Morbidity and mortality conference
• New Editor Engagement
• Nine Reasons Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia
• The Teahouse
• Wales worries about future of editorial community

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