Type of activity:Pre-scheduled session
Main topic:Building a sustainable user experience together
Notes: mw:Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Online Reader Engagement
1. The problem
Editors are the lifeblood of our projects and growing this base is one that has long been a problem. All of our editors were at first readers and that genesis is one we need to recognise and support more The transition in the participatory continuum from reader to editor is one that has received little focus over the last 3 years. Efforts in this area were begun by the editor engagement experiments team. However much of the work in the transition between reader and editor was left untouched.
Similarly there were thoughts by the Fundraising team to run editor contribution campaigns but they never materialised. Some of this work is now done through the chapters but this outreach is severely lacking in terms of technical support.
The aim is to evaluate what ground has been covered and where efforts should take us going forward and how we go about achieving that.
2. Expected outcome
- To establish a way forward and a cross team and cross departmental group to work on reader and proto-editor editor.
- Identify the requirements of tools to support reader and proto-editor engagement
3. Current status of the discussion
For the moment preliminary, however there is extensive desire across multiple departments to further work in this area.
4. Links
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_campaigns
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_editor_acquisition
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_phenomena
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Donor_engagement/Email_campaign
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Donor_engagement
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_milestones
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Teahouse_long_term_new_editor_retention
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/Rollout
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Teahouse
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiGrok
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:MoodBar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Post-edit_feedback
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