A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks.
Wikilove the tool in particular, or barnstars/appreciation in general?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 found productive people, gave half of them barnstars, and looked to see what happened. - "receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Wikipedia_Community had a general question about appreciation through barnstars etc, but "do you like people saying nice things" is not the most rigorous study ;-)
Andrew.
On 25 July 2013 22:32, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Wikilove the tool in particular, or barnstars/appreciation in general?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 found productive people, gave half of them barnstars, and looked to see what happened. - "receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Wikipedia_Community had a general question about appreciation through barnstars etc, but "do you like people saying nice things" is not the most rigorous study ;-)
Also check out https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Wikilove the tool in particular, or barnstars/appreciation in general?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 found productive people, gave half of them barnstars, and looked to see what happened. - "receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Wikipedia_Community had a general question about appreciation through barnstars etc, but "do you like people saying nice things" is not the most rigorous study ;-)
Also check out https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove
I also forgot... for daily volume of WikiLove sent: http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/features/
Yusuke Matsubara and I ran a Mechanical Turk study to classify WikiLove messages a year or two ago.
Not what your colleague is asking for, but might give a couple pointers for how someone could perform that study... I think the dataset is still around somewhere too.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Classifying_wikilove_messages
Moral of the story: - about a quarter of WikiLove messages aren't "Hey, great job!". They're help requests, responses to help requests, offers of condolences, welcomes to new users, even some warnings. - the context and content of a message matter, so if you want to track the influence of WikiLove (on # edits? length of participation?) these messages are likely to be "noise" that confounds your analysis. So, if you're interested in the effect of *praise* or *thanks* specifically, you'll want to filter out messages like these.
There's also a real-time Wikilove edit filter on enwiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilte...
- J
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Wikilove the tool in particular, or barnstars/appreciation in general?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 found productive people, gave half of them barnstars, and looked to see what happened. - "receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Wikipedia_Community had a general question about appreciation through barnstars etc, but "do you like people saying nice things" is not the most rigorous study ;-)
Andrew.
On 25 July 2013 22:32, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks.
E3 specifically is somewhat at capacity as far as instrumenting features for data collection, but if there is interest from a developer (either at the Foundation or from the community at large), it is something we can help mentor. This sort of development work is more welcoming to volunteer contributors now that EventLogging infrastructure is fully set up on labs.
I cannot answer the WikiLove question but I find myself both sending and receiving the new "thank" notifications. It's a very low-effort way to acknowledge individual edits, yet I find myself appreciating the ones I have received.
Kerry
-----Original Message----- From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sumana Harihareswara Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013 7:33 AM To: A mailinglist for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has aninterest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Request for statistics: effectiveness of WikiLove
A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks.