Discussions & Links
Initiatives
- Create an easy-to-understand essay for requesting unblocks
- Reward established editors that might not be noticed otherwise via Wikipedia's Editor of the Week
Current working groups
Other areas of the project
- Retired editors list
- Retired editors questionnaire
- The care and handling of New Editors
- Tips for returning administrators
Why do editors leave?
- Wikipedia:Why is Wikipedia losing contributors - Thinking about remedies
- Discovered reasons given for leaving Wikipedia
Identifying editors who have left, or who are at risk of leaving
Discussion
Current discussions
Peripheral links suggested by editors
- The directory of Wikimedia research projects
- Editor engagement
- Editor Trends Study
- Employee retention – A similar concept
- Findings from the Wikimedia Summer of Research
- Former Contributors Survey Results
- Imagine others complexly
- Modelling Wikipedia's growth
- The MoodBar
- Morbidity and mortality conference
- Nine Reasons Why Women Don't Edit Wikipedia by Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
- Snuggle, a browser-based newcomer observation and support system.
- The Teahouse
- Reading lounge for editors who want to take a break and read through some interesting links
- Wikimedia Foundation Growth Project
- Wikipedia founder worries about future of editorial community
- WikiStats 2 - English Wikipedia, the WMF engagement metrics.
