Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Retired editors questionnaire

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It has been suggested that we contact specific individual editors who have retired as to what circumstances contributed to their leaving the project. In many cases, this may not be a matter they have thought out much themselves, perhaps because they personally ascribed it to some specific major concern and didn't actually think of anything else. While it would certainly be useful to know of the overriding concerns in those cases, it would also be useful to know if there were any other matters, which they might not have specifically considered, which contributed. It is to get the best possible range of relevant data that this page is being assembled.

Please list below specific matters which you believe should be addressed in such a questionnaire, as well as, in the second section below, specific phrasing for such questions for use in a generalized questionnaire.

Issues

• Conduct of other editors
• Unequal treatment of specific editors in some matters
• Questions of bias
• Unclear policies and guidelines
• Harassment by others
• Conduct in general of other editors
• Rejection of their contributions through deletion or reversion

Questions

• Which of these issues do you think contributed to your choosing to leave Wikipedia? Please rank in order of importance, with 1 being most important, omitting any that were not to your eyes relevant to your case.
• __ Difficulty in developing new content
• __ Misconduct of other editors
• __ Problems relating to vagueness or counterutility of policies and guidelines
• __ Burnout