I wanted to share two projects currently under consideration for IdeaLab funding and which may be of direct interest to the Wiki research community.  Note, one purpose of the consciousness-raising repository is to create a collection of stories for use by researchers studying marginalized identities on Wikipedia.  If you are interested or know someone who is interested, let me know. If you have feedback for these projects, please submit them to their discussion pages.

Consciousness-Raising Repository
Call for Working Group Participants

Purpose: We're recruiting a group of diverse Wikipedians to help put together a repository of stories from users experiencing marginalization on Wikipedia. The purpose of the repository is to serve as a database of knowledge about the forms marginalization can take for researchers studying marginalized identities and as an outlet for users experiencing marginalization.

Requirements: Experience working with marginalization and marginalized groups.  Interest in the Wiki-community.  Willing to attend an hour-long biweekly meeting.

For more information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Consciousness_Raising_Repository

Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine
Call for Developers

Purpose: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live stream of edits from Wikipedia.  We need someone who is interested in building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if need be, intervene to deescalate controversies.  The goal is to create a site like stats.wikimedia.org.

Requirements: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization, and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData.

For More Information: see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine