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==External links== |
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*[https://charityvillage.com/Content.aspx?topic=Playing_for_keeps_Recruiting_and_retaining_volunteer_staff_in_volunteer_run_organizations Playing for keeps: Recruiting and retaining volunteer staff in volunteer-run organizations] |
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*[http://www.pgresources.com/articles/attracting-and-retaining-volunteers/ Attracting and Retaining Volunteers - Philantrophic Giving Resources] |
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*[http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/nonprofit-volunteers-top-five-tips-30075.html Nonprofit Volunteers: Top Five Tips to Keep Them Coming | Nolo.com] |
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*[http://knowhownonprofit.org/people/volunteers Recruiting and managing volunteers — Knowhow Nonprofit] |
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Revision as of 15:07, 3 April 2014
WP:RETENTION: These editors are willing to lend a helping hand. Just ask!
WikiProject Editor Retention aims to retain Wikipedians. Editors are as important as content. Without editors, there are no contributions. Without contributions, the encyclopedia grows stagnant. Editor retention is the concern and proactive effort of retaining contributors. We aim to do the following: discuss patterns of behavior or processes that discourage editors, guide editors to optimal venues for having their questions answered or disputes resolved, and create projects to provide support and recognize editors. Policies are not decided here, but are discussed, hoping to find solutions that are specifically geared toward retaining editors. Since some of the topics are controversial and contentious, we ask that editors strive for civility in their participation in discussions and projects here. ()
Interested? .
Editing Goals
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Editing goals
Editing Goals
- Stay calm and maintain a professional demeanor. Patience is key.
- Avoid conflict, even when you know you are right. Give other editors the benefit of the doubt.
- Assume good faith toward your collaborating editors, if not their edits. Assuming good faith is not intended to be self-destructive, but to avoid conflict.
- Ignore attacks. Not easily done, but a real timesaver. Attacks and counter-attacks are hazardous to your mental health. The best and most frequently offered administrative advice is to move on, and, if absolutely necessary, return the next day.
- Don't take it personally. Editors make mistakes. Communicating our thoughts is not easily done on the Internet.
- Don't isolate your interpretation. There are many interpretations other than yours. What you read might NOT be what was meant.
- Don't think of editing as a competition. WE are cohorts, collaborating to improve our thing.
- Don't edit when angry or upset. Stay off the article and talk page in question. Never let your anger or frustration be the deciding factor in your behavior.
- Don't forget the human dimension of Wikipedia editing. Keep things in perspective. There is a real, living and breathing, sensitive human on the other side of the discussion.
Project overview
Overview
Editor retention is a Wikipedia-wide problem. This WikiProject aims to build a stronger Wikipedia for the future, a Wikipedia in which editors want to work and participate, rather than pointing fingers or making accusations at one another. Pointing out the positive actions of administrators and others is encouraged, as we believe the best way to lead is by example. We want to point out what is RIGHT about Wikipedia, encourage others to use those methods, and establish new methods and ideas that make editing Wikipedia enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding for everyone.
Spreading awareness
- Editors can display one of these userboxes to promote the project and let editors know your interest.
- Welcome new users from the Special:Log/newusers list with our welcome template: {{subst:WikiProject Editor Retention/Welcome}} or one of the standardised templates found at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates. Another available option for finding new editors is "Recent changes" in the drop-down menu (under the WikiGlobe to our left) under "Interaction". Scan for red linked talk pages of new editors that have already started their Wikipedia career.
Supporting editors
- Sign up as a Teahouse host, and participate in one or more of the following activities:
- answer questions on the Teahouse Q&A board
- send templated invitations to new editors listed on the Teahouse invitee report (it's refreshed daily!) Don't be shy about emailing people too; email + talk page invite works better than a template alone. And personalizing the invitation with an introduction or a "good job with your edits to the article FOO" is likely to have an even more positive impact. Currently, most of these editors are not being invited to the Teahouse.
- post a welcoming message on the talk pages of editors who have recently introduced themselves on the Teahouse guests page. Currently, most of these are not being welcomed, even after they introduce themselves.
- Sign up as a volunteer at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard, a venue where small content disputes can be resolved as well as a gateway to other more consequential venues. Be involved with the Dispute resolution process. Early mediation of problems prevents blocks and protracted edit wars which disrupt Wikipedia and helps keep things civil.
- Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle is an optional method of reaching consensus. Our edits can and will be changed by others ...even this one. Interact with editors in a manner that encourages editing and improving the encyclopedia while using your experience and knowledge to teach and lead by example.
- Cool down aggressive conversation if it begins in your presence. Be an advocate of collaboration. Of course, the challenge is not to become adversarial yourself. If a situation occurs and you feel administrative intervention is required, editors can create a post on a number of noticeboards such as Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. You can discuss issues that affect administrators at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (however, most editors are expected to make some attempt to work it out themselves before going there, and without evidence of this attempt, most such postings will be rejected before they are given full administrative consideration).
Recognizing editors
- Spread some Wikilove. Try to acknowledge and thank someone different for their contributions, each and every day: Give a barnstar, "cookies" or bacon as appreciation, or send them Thanks for an edit they made.
Working within the project
- Keep an eye out for Nominees to be the WER Editor of the Week...and then nominate them.
Work groups and discussions
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.
Templates
Project banners
- Template:WikiProject Editor Retention - Use
{{WikiProject Editor Retention}}
or{{WPER}}
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Welcome template
- Template:WikiProject Editor Retention/Welcome - Use
{{Subst:Template:WikiProject Editor Retention/Welcome}}
. This template is used to welcome new members to the project.
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New editor templates
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Userboxes
- {{User WP Editor Retention}}
- {{WikiProject Editor Retention Userbox1}}
- {{WikiProject Editor Retention Userbox2}}
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Barnstars
{{subst:Project Editor Retention Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
{{subst:The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
User Page/talk banner
- {{Wikipedia:Project retention talk}}
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Incubation
Research resources
- Planning: Defining goals and methods
- Action: Implementing the plan
- Tracking: Quantitatively determining degree of success
References
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