Task force/Community Health

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Participants should be sure they're familiar with the relevant background material. They should also work to identify gaps and collect and summarize more information as it becomes available.

• Community health

Members

• User:JaapB
• User:FloNight
• User:Bodnotbod
• User:Jcravens42
• User:Sjc
• User:henna
• User:Randomran
• User:Fuzheado
• User:Art Unbound

Supporting: Eugene Eric Kim and Philippe Beaudette

Weekly Reports

• /Weekly Report 01 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 02 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 03 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 04 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 05 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 06 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 07 - submitted
• /Weekly Report 08 - blank (due to holiday season?)
• /Weekly Report 09 - due 4 Jan 2010
• /Weekly Report 10
• /Weekly Report 11

Recommendations

Top five:

• 1: Volunteer Recognition
• 7: Decisions and dispute resolution
• 6: Organization and governance
• 5: Interface and tools
• 4: Social features

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Abandoned:

• 3: Diplomacy
• 2: Vision

Mandate

Higher turnover rates among editors suggest that contributors may face burn-out or editing fatigue. Likewise, new editors are being reverted at higher rates, potentially indicating community norms that are less welcoming and open to differences or learning than before. Many persons also believe that policy proliferation is a major driver of the decline in contributors.

The goal of this task force is to identify causes of the decline in the community's health, to identify the effect of the proliferation of policies, and to identify solutions to these problems.

The task force has developed answers to these questions to guide their work:

1. What key measures of community health exist and how have these measures changed over time?
2. What are the causes in the apparent decline in community?
3. How can these causes of the decline in community health be addressed? (i.e. cultural norms, technological solutions, communications)
4. Are some projects more burdened with policies than others? If so, why and what has been the effect?
5. Which policies have the most direct effect, both positive and negative, on contribution?
6. Which policies are necessary for the functioning of the Wikimedia community? Which can be eliminated?
7. What 2-4 strategic opportunities for investment in improving community health would have the most positive effect on the attraction and retention of contributors?
8. Who is needed to support this strategy (e.g., Wikimedia Foundation, chapters, individual volunteers, external partners), and what should they do?

• Answers to these eight questions can be found here

Name/User page	Talk	Contribs	Favorites	More info
JaapB	User talk:JaapB	Special:Contributions/JaapB	Favorites/JaapB
FloNight (Sydney Poore)	User talk:FloNight	Special:Contributions/FloNight	Favorites/FloNight	en.Wikipedia / Commons / Wikisource / Wikiquote / Metawiki
Bodnotbod	User talk:Bodnotbod	Special:Contributions/Bodnotbod	Favorites/Bodnotbod	en user page
Jcravens42 (Jayne Cravens)	User talk:Jcravens42	Special:Contributions/Jcravens42	Favorites/Jcravens42
Sjc	User talk:Sjc	Special:Contributions/Sjc	Favorites/Sjc	en user page
henna	User talk:henna	Special:Contributions/henna	Favorites/henna	en user page
Randomran	User talk:Randomran	Special:Contributions/Randomran	Favorites/Randomran	en user page
Fuzheado	User talk:Fuzheado	Special:Contributions/Fuzheado	Favorites/Fuzheado	en user page
User:Art Unbound	User talk:Art Unbound	Special:Contributions/Art Unbound	Favorites/Art Unbound	en user page

Supporting: John Fowler and Philippe Beaudette