As a quick/rough data point I don't frequently edit wikipedia anymore, and when I do I never log in.
About 2/3 edits no further interactions happen. About 10% gets reverted, about 10% of the time I get a warning and the last 10% I get a welcome template. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 15:52 Marshall Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for mentioning the WMF Growth team [1], Pine. This is a really > interesting thread that has touched on much of what the team has been > working on alongside the Czech, Korean, Arabic, and Vietnamese Wikipedia > communities (and with the advice of people from many different communities > along the way). > > We've tried to base our approach in research on newcomers, which taught us > that newcomers face three main types of challenges: technical, conceptual, > and cultural [2]. For instance, the research tells us that the rules of > the wiki are hard to learn, and that a negative first interaction can cause > a newcomer to leave the wiki and not return -- but that a positive > interaction, such as getting advice from a friendly editor, can cause them > to stay. > > Over the last year and a half, we have experimented on mid-size Wikipedias > with features that promote good communication between new and experienced > users [3], that help newcomers teach themselves [4], and that give > newcomers easy tasks to do [5]. The goal is to build an experience for > newcomers that helps them get on a positive track in their first days on > the wiki, and want to stick around to join their communities. It's > possible that what we've learned and built so far will apply differently to > the largest Wikipedias. > > I hope that anyone who is interested in newcomers can tell us about their > own experiences and ideas on our team's discussion page [6], or on the > discussion pages of any of our projects. It's very important to us that > the things we build fit in with how communities work today. Over the next > year, we're planning to expand the Growth features to more wikis, so we > definitely want to talk to people who think the features might be a good > fit for their wikis. > > To keep informed about the Growth team, please subscribe to our newsletter > [7]. > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences > [3] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homepage#Mentorship_module > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Focus_on_help_desk > [5] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth > [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newsletters > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:07 AM Vi to <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not really, drawing practical advices/lessons (e.g. "differentiate among > > kinds of COIs") is the only sensible path towards solving issues. > > "Let's be kind" is close to a tautology. > > > > Vito > > > > Il giorno mer 26 feb 2020 alle ore 09:59 Andy Mabbett < > > [email protected]> ha scritto: > > > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 20:36, Vi to <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hard to tell anything without the relevant link(s). > > > > > > For you, maybe. Others have already given helpful replies. > > > > > > My question was generic, and not about the specific case I gave as an > > > example. > > > > > > I chose not to post links to to the example, both in order to avoid a > > > pile-on, and to avoid us being distracted by the minutiae of the > > > incident concerned. > > > > > > -- > > > Andy Mabbett > > > @pigsonthewing > > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Marshall Miller > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
