Editor engagement experiments

Editor Engagement Project

Editor Engagement Experiments
project leads	Matt Flaschen Wikimedia Foundation Ori Livneh Wikimedia Foundation S Page Wikimedia Foundation Dario Taraborelli Wikimedia Foundation Steven Walling Wikimedia Foundation Kirsten Menger-Anderson Wikimedia Foundation
start	2012-April
Editor engagement initiatives

The purpose of the Editor engagement experiments (E3) team is to find ways to attract and retain new Wikipedia editors. Rather than spending resources building products on a large scale, we test the effectiveness of our ideas using short term experiments. The team launched on April 16, 2012, and is hiring several full-time engineering positions for this team. Also see the other editor engagement projects.

Experiments

The following pages hold the methodology, experimental design and results of each experiment. For technical information and UX design documentation please view our E3 hub on MediaWiki.org. For a short overview of the results of completed experiments check out this page.

Active

Research:Onboarding new Wikipedians

Research:Account creation campaigns

Planned

Research:Guided tours

Research:Section edit modification

Research:Improve your edit

Research:Wikimania unconference experiment (suppress cleanup templates)

Research:Left-hand navigation

Complete

Research:Account creation UX

Research:Donor engagement

Research:Community portal redesign

Research:Post-edit feedback

Template A/B testing

Research:Necromancy

Research:Timestamp position modification

Research:Editor milestones

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Results

See a summary of our results, or check out individual experiments.

Methods

• Experiment activation
• Bucketing

See also

• List of editor engagement projects
• Wikipedia:Editor engagement experiments
• The public board on Trello for E3