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English: We define drop-off as a user-driven voluntary choice to become inactive, thus excluding blocks or bans where a user loses their ability to contribute following a community decision. Being blocked or even banned for a long period of time from a Wikimedia project implies the impossibility of participating, but it is not a drop-off. Instead, deciding not to return to editing after block or ban, or even forcing a ban into what is known as “retirement by admin,” are different ways in which an editor can decide to withdraw from Wikipedia. The three states of editor drop-off in their most common forms are “wikibreaks,” “semi-retiring,” and “retiring.”