I've started to read BSOC and I'm thoroughly appreciating it. I think that
Wes is looking into notes from the former Growth Team and considering how
to add contributor growth as a measure of succeess for current Product
teams. I'd like to suggest that anyone in Product who is interested in the
subject of contributor growth make at least a brief pass through this book.
Thanks so much for the recommendation, J-mo.
Pine
On Oct 6, 2015 08:29, "Jonathan Morgan" <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Pine,
The book *Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence Based Social
Design*[1] provides a great synthesis of concepts from economics,
sociology, and cognitive psychology as they apply to the design of projects
like Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia is one of the primary case studies used
in the book. They have several chapters that focus on motivation
techniques/tools. The book is easy to skim and apply!
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
1.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-successful-online-communities
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Some of us plan to have a conversation at the WCONUSA unconference
sessions about ENWP culture. Are there any recommended readings that you
could suggest as preparation, particularly on the subject of how to
reinforce or incentivize desirable user behavior? I think that Jonathan may
have done some research on this topic for the Teahouse, and Ocassi may have
for done research for TWA. I'm interested in applicable research as
preparation both for the unconference discussion and for my planned video
series that intends to inform and inspire new editors.
Thanks,
Pine
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Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
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