New Editor Experiences/Workshops

We are designing a series of workshops to collaboratively decide how to apply the learnings from our research toward retaining new editors. Below is a high level outline of these workshops, and the goals associated with them. We are in the planning stages, and happy to receive suggestions and feedback on the discussion page.

General community conversation
Broad presentation about the research and findings, description of next steps, and how to participate. (2 hours over video conference. Last week in September)

Who: Wikimedia Foundation staff, broad invitation, anyone welcome.

Goals:
 * Present findings and personas (report and personas shared in invitations)
 * Gather feedback, answer questions, about report, personas and findings
 * Open lines of communication with those interested in the new editors project
 * Gather examples of work already being done toward attracting and retaining new editors.

Steeping workshop
Get to know the report and personas. Some seed questions, to inspire conversation, will be provided ahead of time: any surprises? Anything super obvious? Stuff we absolutely should do / not do, etc. (2 hours over video conference. First week in October)

Who: Wikimedia Foundation staff, new editors team

Goals:
 * Everyone on the team to get very familiar and conversant with the findings memo, personas and user journeys.
 * Discussion and Q&A about the research, findings, and the workshops to come.
 * Build interest and get team thinking about opportunities to support new editor retention in CZ and KO wikis

Czech community conversation
Will be held at a time that works for Czech community. Will be a 2 hour conversation over video conference, or whatever works best.

Who: Czech community members who want to participate, a few Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Goals:
 * Present findings and personas, to gain familiarity, and continue the conversation around the research and future work.
 * Gather feedback, answer questions, about report, personas and findings
 * Learn which research findings the Czech community participants find most important to focus on for their community.
 * Share plans for future work for the project, gauge people's interest in being involved as we move forward.
 * Learn about other efforts, we may not know about, that are also working toward new editor retention.

Korean community conversation
Will be held at a time that works for Korean community. Will be a 2 hour conversation over video conference, or whatever works best.

Who: Korean community members who want to participate, a few Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Goals:
 * Present findings and personas, to gain familiarity, and continue the conversation around the research and future work.
 * Gather feedback, answer questions, about report, personas and findings
 * Learn which research findings the Korean community participants find most important to focus on for their community.
 * Share plans for future work for the project, gauge people's interest in being involved as we move forward.
 * Learn about other efforts, we may not know about, that are also working toward new editor retention.

Focus workshop
Collective decision making about which finding/s to focus on in our first round. Which findings can we address to increase new editor retention in KO and CZ Wikis? Half day workshop, fully remote.

Who: Wikimedia Foundation staff (new editors team)

Goals:
 * Decide how many findings to focus on Decide which findings to focus on (1-3?)
 * Align around criteria for making the decision and assign weighting to criteria.
 * We will collectively decide which findings to focus our efforts on, by taking into consideration:
 * KO and CZ community feedback on findings (which are most important to each respective community)
 * WMF resources, capabilities, and strategic goals
 * Current and previous work around that finding (is there already work being done, and success of failure in that area?
 * How easy or difficult might it be to “move the needle” on new editor retention in this area?
 * What kind of collaboration and dependencies might focusing in this finding require for success?
 * Which findings will better retain new editors in Korean and Czech Wikipedias