Hello Fellow Wiki Researchers,
I’ve recently posted a project proposal under the Inspire Campaign and would love feedback from this community on the research proposal, Characterization of Editors on Wikipedia:
In order to accurately explore the main goals of the
Inspire Campaign, we must be able to effectively characterize our community.
Any interventions that we develop should reflect and match the needs of the
target population, requiring a thorough understanding of the traits and
behaviors of our community of editors. As a direct extension of the recent
gender gap research on Wikipedia and to explore other potential areas of
inequality, we’d like to conduct another study that compares the traits of the
super-editor, the active editor (moderate editing), and the inactive editor
(infrequent edits).
The proposed project would use an online self-report
survey that is posted on editor talk pages. The research team has experience
conducting online surveys and will monitor responses on this survey to identify
any potential misuse of the survey (i.e. vandalism) and/or outliers in the
data. This entire project would only be implemented after an IRB approval from the
lead researcher's academic institution.
Full proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Characterization_of_Editors_on_Wikipedia
Thank you in advance for your assistance in developing this proposal!
Christina Shane-Simpson
Psychology Department
The College of Staten Island and
The Graduate Center, CUNY