This month:

Night Terrors: Day and Night Cycles in Reader and Editor Behaviour
By Oliver Keyes: Using new geolocation tools, we look at reader and editor behaviour to understand how and when people access and contribute to our content. This is largely exploratory research, but has potential implications for our A/B testing and how we understand both cultural divides between reader and editor groups from different countries, and how we understand the transition of people from consumers to contributors.

Using Open Data and Stories to Broaden Crowd Content
By Nathan Matias*: Nathan will share a series of research on gender diversity online and designs for collaborative content creation that foster learning and community. He will also demo a prototype for a system that could leverage open data to attract and support new Wikipedia contributors.

*Bio: Nathan Matias, who does research on cooperation across diversity, is a PhD student at the MIT Center for Civic Media and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he co-facilitates the Cooperation working group. He also facilitates #1book140, The Atlantic's Twitter Book Club.