Jonathan Cardy
<werespielchequers@gmail.com<mailto:werespielchequers@gmail.com>> wrote:
In case I didn’t make it clear, I am very much of the camp that IP editing is our
lifeline, the way we recruit new members.
Tangentially elated to this question, we have a forthcoming paper at the CSCW conference
about how research conclusions change when anonymous work (e.g., IP editing) is taken into
account. We looked at data from a citizen science project. Short answer: it makes a
difference.
The paper isn’t up on the ACM DL yet, but you can see it here:
https://crowston.syr.edu/node/756
Doing the study requires access to IP addresses for logged in users, so someone at WMF
would have to do the study for Wikipedia, which would be really interesting and would
speak to the question of whether IP editing is a gateway to further editing.
Kevin Crowston
Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor of Information Science
School of Information Studies
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Most recent publication: Kevin Crowston, Isabelle Fagnot. (2018). Stages of motivation
for contributing user-generated content: A theory and empirical test. International
Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 109, 89-101, doi:
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.005<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.00… .
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