*Gabe/Nemo:* There is at least one piece of research that indicates it
does, under certain circumstances:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/connect/CSCW_10/docs/…
At one point, I started building a WikiProject-matching workflow on the
Teahouse (with Nettrom, using SuggestBot). But we never finished or tested
it, and life moved on. I believe there have been other plans to do this at
other points, inside and outside WMF. To my knowledge, none of these plans
came to fruition, but I'd love to hear otherwise.
With the advent of ORES and the recommendation API, I bet a better workflow
for matching newbies and WikiProjects could be developed, if there is will
enough, and time.
*Pine/Jane:* There's no dashboard, but it's possible to gather these data
from the replica DBs (through Quarry, for instance). I may even have some
datasets lying around that contain some of the data you're asking for in
historical form (or at least pointers to research based on said data). I'll
look around and post what I find.
Jonathan
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Gabriel Mugar, 07/01/2016 18:35:
On the topic of Wikiprojects and retention, have
there been any attempts
at directing newcomers to Wikiprojects?
Many attempts across years and languages. Sending people to places is
easy, the issue is whether that does any good.
Nemo
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