Editor engagement



Editor engagement is about growing Wikipedia and its community

Editor engagement projects encourage the growth of the volunteer community that builds the free encyclopedia. They include efforts to retain existing editors, as well as to engage new contributors to participate on Wikipedia. To advance these goals, the Wikimedia Foundation is working with community members on a range of new projects, which you can read about below.

Here is the problem

We call this the oh $#*& graph.

In early 2007, the number of active editors, as well as the rate at which new editors stick around, plateaued and then bottomed out. These numbers haven't improved.

We need your help

What's new Here are some of our most recent reports and milestones.

• New research: Editor milestones In this recent experiment, we sent a personalized thank you email to all users who reached their 1,000th edit for articles on English Wikipedia. Here’s what we learned about the effects of personalized recognition for editors on the verge of becoming "established" Wikipedians. Read more • Helping readers improve Wikipedia The editor engagement team has developed a new version of the Article Feedback Tool, which invites readers to write comments that might help editors improve Wikipedia articles. Here are the findings from our first test. Read more Help us! We will release a newsletter with more info about editor engagement tests, progress reports and ways you can contribute. Sign up below to subscribe!

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Who we are

Product managers, community organizers, developers, designers, and analysts.

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What we are doing Here's a short list of our current projects aimed at improving editor engagement. Check out each talk page for comments or questions!