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Wikipedia editor survey: Top-line data released
Last week we released the very first insights from the recent semi-annual survey of Wikipedia editors. This week we’re releasing the survey’s top-line data. The top-line data includes all of the major...
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Majority read and edit more than one language Wikipedia
There are more bilingual and multilingual individuals in the world than there are monolingual, and the global community of Wikipedia editors is no exception. According to the Editors Survey, April...
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Positive feedback works for editing, say Wikipedia editors
“Our brains and our behavior are driven by feedback loops. Harness their power and change your life,” points out Wired magazine in its latest cover story on how feedback can be used to change human...
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Wikipedia editors contribute to social media streams too
Wikipedia is undoubtedly the most successful collaborative online experiment in the history of Internet. Wikipedia editors spend hours writing and researching articles that have made the project the...
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Shedding light on women who edit Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has made a strategic goal of increasing volunteer participation, in particular by encouraging women to edit Wikipedia. In the Wikipedia editors survey we analyzed the edit...
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Supporting user requests for mobile features, even editing
As you may know, the WMF strategic plan released last March set ambitious goals for our movement’s next five years. At the top of the agenda for the forthcoming fiscal year is to increase mobile page...
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Shedding light on board of trustee elections
As most of the readers of this blog are aware the Wikimedia foundation board of trustees ”manages the foundation and supervises disposition and solicitation of donation.” The community elects three...
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Results from the Japanese Editor Survey
We have blogged recently about the results from our semi-annual editor survey. Although the survey was conducted in 22 languages, it didn’t include Japanese, due to the March earthquake and ensuing...
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Introducing Wikipedia Editor Satisfaction Index
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on new products and global initiatives to increase participation in our projects, specifically Wikipedia. To help inform the development of this work we’ve been...
View ArticleLaunching the Second Annual Wikipedia Editor Survey
On Thursday, December 8th, the Wikimedia Foundation will launch its second semi-annual survey (2011) of Wikipedia editors. In order to capture editor trends, we are using the same methodology as the...
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