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Community Growth
Welcome to the
Community Growth Space
at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm!
Opening panel from the Community Growth space
Leaders
Verena Lindner (WMDE)
Marshall Miller (WMF)
Bence Damokos
Christine Domgörgen (WMDE)
Jonathan Morgan (WMF)
Benoît Evellin (WMF)
Sailesh Patnaik
Description
People in our movement have been working hard to make Wikimedia communities sustainable by recruiting and retaining newcomers to the projects. Wikimedians have been running local events, evolving our software, and working to improve the processes and culture on our wikis – but we still have a long way to go. In this space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:
What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?
How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?
How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?
We want voices from as many parts of the movement as possible to discuss experiences from their projects, findings from research, and results from affiliates’ and project leaders' work. We want to translate that learning into ideas and best practices that Wikimedians can bring back to their communities.
This space is related to five United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with their icons shown on this page. To read more about the goals, see
this page
Background
The questions of how to find new contributors and how to keep them involved in the Wikimedia projects have been challenging our movement for over ten years, starting with a steep decline in active editors in 2007.
During this time, different communities have tried many approaches to growing contributors, some of which have succeeded and some of which have not. These approaches include both offline programming, such as edit-a-thons; online programming, such as the
French Wikipedia Forum des nouveaux
; and technology changes, such as the
Guided Tour extension
When we talk about newcomers, there are a few important terms:
Recruitment
: identifying people who are interested in contributing for the first time.
Activation
: the moment when someone makes their very first contribution.
Retention
: when contributors stick around and continue to contribute over time.
Over the years, we have collectively learned a great deal about newcomers and their needs, and developed programming and technology to address them. Here is a selection of relevant information:
Wikimedia Foundation New Editor Experiences research project
Wikimedia Foundation Growth team
Wikimedia Deutschland activities around recruiting and retaining new editors
(in German)
CivilServant's Wikimedia studies
Gratitude prompts
and
Retaining newcomers
French Wikipedia "Help and Welcome project"
Wikimedia Hungary Editor retention program
The English Wikipedia Teahouse project
Topics
Topics recommended by this space's co-leaders
We are looking for proposals that fit into one of the categories below.
Recruitment, activation and retention:
online and offline strategies, case studies, considerations, and research.
Technology work:
software tools for engaging and educating newcomers.
On-wiki engagement:
techniques for mentorship, teaching, and keeping newcomers involved from on the wikis.
Off-wiki engagement:
programs, events, and communication for training and keeping newcomers involved in the off-wiki world.
Newcomer experiences across projects and cultures:
research and experience reports around what it's like to be a newcomer and interact with newcomers in different wikis and languages.
Supporting diversity:
how to evolve our contributor communities to better reflect the diversity of our global readership.
Learning from outside our movement:
research and lessons on newcomers from other types of online and offline communities outside the Wikimedia movement.
The future of newcomers and editing:
how will our beliefs about newcomers and our technology around editing need to change in the future as more new people come online and get involved?
Program
Friday 16 August
Building
Juristernas hus
Room
Montalcini
13:00
Introductory Panel: Challenges and approaches to Community Growth
13:30
What we know about newcomers and how to nurture them
Marshall Miller, Benoît Evellin, Martin Urbanec
14:30
Break
15:00
Building organizations for growth: Wikidata in India, Wikimedia Armenia, Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing, and Wikimedia Sweden
16:30
Events? Competitions? Engagement? CentralNotice is your friend
David Strine, Joseph Seddon
17:00
Saturday 17 August
Building
Juristernas hus
Room
Montalcini
Space
GROWTH
9:30
Campaigning for growth: WikiFundi, Women in Red and Caucasian collaboration
Florence Devouard, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Mehman Ibragimov and Oleg Abarnikov
11:00
Break
11:30
Onboarding and Retention: Hungarian and French Wikipedias
Trizek, Samat
12:00
Encouraging the spirit of new editors - A structured approach to mapping onboarding efforts
Christine Domgörgen, Verena Lindner
14:00
Technology for Growth: future of mobile editing
Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender, Jess Klein, Ed Sanders, Peter Pelberg
15:00
Technology for growth: tools and experiments from Scribe and CivilServant
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hady Elsahar, Nathan Matias, Julia Kamin, Max Klein
15:30
Break
16:00
Lightning talks: growth ideas to take home
17:30
Please join the Poster session in the Allhuset.
Proposed submissions
Community Growth
Community Growth/A wiki-a-thon the Amnesty way
Community Growth/Advanced mobile contributions
Community Growth/After Flow: A new direction for improving talk pages
Community Growth/Building a member-driven affiliate: which are the fundamental questions and how do we answer them?
Community Growth/Building organizations for growth
Community Growth/Business 101 for community growth
Community Growth/Campaigning for growth
Community Growth/Caucasian Collaboration
Community Growth/Czechs, recruitment and retention
Community Growth/Designing for Organizing in the Wikimedia Movement
Community Growth/Encouraging the spirit of new editors - A structured approach to mapping onboarding efforts
Community Growth/Events? Competitions? Engagement? CentralNotice is your friend
Community Growth/Freaking Reporting!
Community Growth/From nothing to large community
Community Growth/Growing Wikidata in Emerging Communities (India as a case study)
Community Growth/Growing a community using WikiFundi: the case of the WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique
Community Growth/How to run an effective CentralNotice Campaign
Community Growth/Let's Talk about Campaigns and Contests
Community Growth/Lightning talks: growth ideas to take home
Community Growth/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large
Community Growth/Old helping new helping old: cross-wiki collaboration
Community Growth/Onboarding and Retention: Hungarian and French Wikipedias
Community Growth/Personal invitations, coffee and small talk - how regular editathons can increase new user retention
Community Growth/Retention program in Hungary
Community Growth/Scribe: Supporting (Under-resourced) Wikipedia Editors in Creating New Articles
Community Growth/Small grants for great results
Community Growth/Something small for everyone: quick contribution ideas with Wikidata
Community Growth/Space Intro
Community Growth/Submission form
Community Growth/Talk pages consultation: improving wiki communication
Community Growth/Technology for growth
Community Growth/Technology for growth: future of mobile editing
Community Growth/Technology for growth: tools and experiments from Scribe and CivilServant
Community Growth/Telugu village project: Fixing a large quality issue and growing community
Community Growth/Testing tools for Growth: Two case studies with five Wikipedia communities
Community Growth/The Wiki Guy-I am listening
Community Growth/Visual editing on mobile: An accessible editor for all
Community Growth/WMF Growth team: what we know about newcomers and how to nurture them
Community Growth/Welcome and help: how to keep a community ready for newcomers
Community Growth/What we know about newcomers and how to nurture them
Community Growth/Why not a campaign to donate time rather than money?
Community Growth/Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing
Community Growth/Wiki loves Monuments is (should be) more than just a Photo contest
Community Growth/Wiktionary as Teaching Tool: Case Study
Discussion
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Questions? Comments? Write them here!
Retention of old users
I wonder weather we dont forget for old users and their retention, in the run for newbies. Also old users creates the community and they could have same approch as newbies. If we will not be taking care of old users, who will take care of newbies in the future?
Juandev
talk
20:36, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Juandev, thank you for your question and sorry for the late reply. This is definitely an important aspect of Community Growth and we would welcome sessions about this topic as well. --
Christine Domgörgen (WMDE)
talk
07:14, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
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Missed the boat but...
Hi. I just discovered this project, and wondered if I'm in the right place?
I am trying to find volunteer contributors who would be interesting in improving an existing Wikipedia page with a C-class quality rating:
If here's not the right place, does anyone have any recommendations for where I could seek help?
212.161.91.6
13:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi
User:212.161.91.6
-- this is the wiki about Wikimania, the Wikimedia movement's annual conference. If you're interested in working on that article, you are welcome to start editing it yourself by clicking its edit button. If you're looking for collaborators, one place to ask is at
WikiProject Corporations
, which is a group of editors who like to edit about corporations. Let me know if you need any more help! --
MMiller (WMF)
talk
02:40, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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