On 30 May 2014 15:35, rexx <rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

I think the question of the very low conversion rate of editathon editors into regular editors is a well-studied problem.

I'm fairly relaxed about it.

Anecdotally I know some people I've trained have returned to editing after a long period (a year or more), or have continued editing occasionally, as IP editors. Others may not have edited again, but act as advocates, telling other people that they can edit (and this includes librarians and archivists I've trained, who speak to potential new editors every working day). Even if all we achieve is to get someone to stop decrying Wikipedia as unreliable, or to donate in our yearly drives, that's something.

One of my trainees, for example, wrote <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisel_Haas> and never edited again (at least, not from that account). Wikipedia is still better for having that article, and I'm glad that the effort I invested resulted in it.

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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