Editor engagement

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 shit" graph.

In early 2007, the number of active editors plateaued and then started decreasing. The rate at which new editors stick around plateaued even earlier, in early 2005, and then dropped sharply. These numbers haven't improved.

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What's new

Here are some of our most recent reports and milestones.

How can we make Wikipedia better?

At Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, we asked some of the participants for ideas on how to make Wikipedia better.

Here are their suggestions. Watch the short video slide show on the right -- or check out the individual pictures in this photo gallery.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Article feedback v5 deploys to 10% of English Wikipedia

A new version of Article Feedback is being gradually deployed on English Wikipedia, where it is now at 10%. It engages readers to make suggestions about articles they are reading — and invites editors to improve these articles based on this feedback.

Who we are

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

 See the rest of the team

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!