Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention#Project teams

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General research process ('Incubation')

  • Planning: Defining goals and methods
  • Action: Implementing the plan
  • Tracking: Quantitatively determining degree of success

Resources

  • [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Wikipedia Statistics]
  • [https://retention.toolforge.org/enwiki en.wikipedia user retention]: graph showing histograms of number of edits made in a given month for all editors who started editing in the same month. Retention can be seen as how far from the starting month activity persists.
  • meta:Research:Teahouse - WMF funded research on reasons new users depart. The references are particularly valuable.

See also