Editor retention

Editor retention measures the extent to which editors remain active over time; it is one of the main factors of community growth. Editor retention has often been identified as one of the areas where Wikimedia wikis need major improvements. This page is a hub indexing the various editor retention related resources we have.

Graph showing the correlation between editor retention (red) and the number of active editors (blue) on the English Wikipedia.

Groups working on editor retention

• WMF Growth team - mainly focusing on the early experience of new editors
• Volunteer Supporters Network
• CivilServant (CivilServant's Wikimedia studies)
• Growth community at Wikimedia Space

Inactive/historical:

• old Growth team (aka Editor Engagement Experiments), 2012-15

Efforts at improving editor retention

• Community Capacity Development/New contributor engagement and growth
• Grants:Project/WM HU/Editor retention program
• movement strategy: capacity building recommendations, community health recommendations

Historical:

• 2010 movement strategy: increase participation
• 2011 strategy update about refocusing on editor retention, and subsequent board resolution on openness
• mw:Anonymous editor acquisition -

Data

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Research

Highlights:

• Research:Editor retention
• Research:Teahouse

See Research for more.

See also

• Learning patterns: volunteer management, diversity, training