Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention

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General research process ('Incubation')

 * Planning: Defining goals and methods
 * Action: Implementing the plan
 * Tracking: Quantitatively determining degree of success

Resources

 * Wikipedia Statistics
 * en.wikipedia user retention: graph showing histograms of number of edits made in a given month for all editors who started editing in the same month. Retention can be seen as how far from the starting month activity persists.
 * meta:Research:Teahouse - WMF funded research on reasons new users depart. The references are particularly valuable.