The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed today Wed 5/21 at 11.30 PT.
The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts
and as usual you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
We look forward to seeing you!
Dario
This month:
UX research at WMF
Introducing Abbey Ripstra, the new UX research lead at the Wikimedia Foundation.
A bird's eye view of editor activation
by Dario Taraborelli -- In this talk I will give a high-level overview of data on new
editor activation, presenting longitudinal data from the largest Wikipedias, a comparison
between desktop and mobile registrations and the relative activation rates of different
cohorts of newbies.
Collaboration patterns in Articles for Creation
by Aaron Halfaker -- Wikipedia needs to attract and retain newcomers while also increasing
the quality of its content. Yet new Wikipedia users are disproportionately affected by the
quality assurance mechanisms designed to thwart spammers and promoters. English
Wikipedia’s en:WP:Articles for Creation provides a protected space for newcomers to draft
articles, which are reviewed against minimum quality guidelines before they are published.
In this presentation, describe and a study of how this drafting process has affected the
productivity of newcomers in Wikipedia. Using a mixed qualitative and quantitative
approach, I'll show the process's pre-publication review, which is intended to
improve the success of newcomers, in fact decreases newcomer productivity in English
Wikipedia and offer recommendations for system designers.