Hungarian Wikipedia is running a one-year project to improve editor retention. The project involves some paid hours for coordination / project management / community management and some volunteer technical support. This is the master task for tracking technical aspects of the project and collecting ideas.

Some things we are considering:

• Research:
  • Identify and perform low-hanging research tasks, mainly by finding research done on other wikis that is easy to adapt or provides tooling, and repeat it on huwiki.
  • See if it's possible to predict which users become long-term productive contributors, so we can best assign scarce mentoring resources
  • See if it's possible to predict when users are about to become inactive / significantly less active, so we support or motivate them
  • Identify and set up tools for survey work. (The welcome survey seems like an obvious choice, but we'll want something more flexible too.)
• New editor experience:
  • Perform guerilla usability testing with acquaintances who have not edited Wikipedia before
  • Collect and categorize the problems new users face
  • Identify bugs that make good-faith edits seem damaging and result in newbie biting
• Experienced editor experience:
  • Survey experienced editors and identify major pain points
  • Identify low-hanging fruit in improving the technical environment (useful tools that can be localized and enabled with relatively low effort)
    • Patrolling tools (Huggle, Snuggle etc.)
    • Wikidata integration (VE integration, Lua modules; maybe look into Yurik's centralized modules framework?)
    • Improve Citoid (Zotero) coverage of Hungarian sources
    • Improve TemplateData coverage of common templates
    • Make sure Zotero and TemplateData work well with the non-visual editors
  • Build tools for identifying editors who do a lot of good work while not socially active
  • Collect and categorize the problems experienced editors face
• Communication:
  • Strengthen commnity cohesion by identifying, setting up and promoting communication tools which work better than the (defunct) project email list
  • Improve dissemination of experience about editing toold and tricks - identify and set up tools (video conference? newsletter?)