The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
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I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta as well.
Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- --Madhu :)
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I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of WikiLove specifically.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta as well.
Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- --Madhu :)
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-- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)
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I posted on the talkpage, offering to provide any information I have, and asking about the need for research.
I'm not aware of any research that has explicitly tested that hypothesis. And the Barnstar paper is... controversial... among wiki researchers.
I wonder if there's a concern that implementing WikiLove will cause some sort of harm to the wiki?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of WikiLove specifically.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta as well.
Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- --Madhu :)
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-- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)
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Hi Kaldari,
Thanks for pinging us. :)
I responded on the thread but just to recap here as well: there has been solid research to understand how badges can be used to incentivize users in some other websites in the past (look at this work https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf, for example), and I do believe we can/should revive an effort to understand the impact of barnstars in Wikipedia better. The most important step for any effort which is to be successful in practice would be to get the Wikipedia culture component right.
Ashton Anderson, one of the authors of the paper above, recently gave a talk about this research at Wiki Research Workshop at WWW, and we had some early discussions about how we can adapt that research to Wikipedia. From my offline discussions and the few comments on the thread you shared, there seems to be at least some community interest in this area, which is great. :) I'll follow up with Ashton.
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of WikiLove specifically.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta as well.
Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abou... .
Thanks!
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- --Madhu :)
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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