User blog comment:Sannse/Welcoming New Contributors/@comment-5175866-20160721181400

At Bible Wiki, we make sure to follow up every edit with a personal welcome (asides from the automated wlecome) and invite them to chat. We try to get in a chat with every new user for an Admin to introduce themselves and explain the basics about the goals of the wiki. While we don't have a large community we are implementing these methods more often, and when it seems we sit down and explain our ministry goals they are much more likely to stay (much more than reading the project pages that explain all of it). In addition we make sure to explain, often in detail, why edits are reverted when they are (providing a biblical answer and citing relevant verses) rather than reverting with no explaination as may wikis.