Hola!
Welcome from me and thanks to share with us your presentations in the e-list. I am Mayo
Fuster Morell, just finished a Phd on the governance of digital commons (which Wikipedia
was one on my case studies). More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lilaroja
I have a small comment to Howie. In order to approach user's lifecycle, I would
suggest you to consider also the Life history method, and then perhaps as data how users
present their relationship with Wikipedia at their users page. Finally, I have the
impression that user age might be significant in explaining the different paths of
participation evolution in Wikipedia.
Have a nice day! Mayo
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Research Digital Commons Governance:
http://www.onlinecreation.info
European University Institute - Phd Candidate
School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher
Phone Italy: (New!) 0039-3312805010 or 0039-0558409982
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Identi.ca: Mayo
Postal address: Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
(FI) - Italy
Fax [+39] 055 4685 201
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De: wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org en nom de Parul Vora
Enviat el: dl. 09/08/2010 21:08
Per a: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; Nimish Gautam; Howie Fung; Amy Roth
Tema: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Staff Introductions.
Hello everyone,
We (most of the current staff at the Wikimedia Foundation currently engaging in research)
had a chance to meet some of you at Wikisym and Wikimania this year and thought it would
be nice to introduce ourselves and say hi to all of you! All of us have joined WMF in the
past two years and are working on projects or research questions that may be relevant or
of interest to all of you. Also, as far as I know, we are all new to this list and will
hopefully be talking and collaborating with you more in the future - both here and on the
Meta Research page.
So, in no particular order, some introductions from all of us:
From Nimish
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nimish_Gautam> (ngautam(a)wikimedia.org):
Hi, I'm Nimish Gautam. I started with the foundation in 2009 doing development for the
Usability Initiative, which focused on new editors. I like analyzing user behavior to
figure out how people use the tools we give them (turning templates into a programming
language, who would've guessed?) and spotting trends so we can improve those tools to
help people accomplish what it is they're trying to do. Currently I'm doing
qualitative and quantitative research on user behavior for the foundation and its various
projects, and very interested in finding ways of chunking all this information together to
make pretty, compelling, informative resources so people know what's going on in the
wikiverse and hopefully want to be a part of it.
From Howie
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#User_Experience_Programs>
(hfung(a)wikimedia.org): Hello! I'm Howie and I'm a Senior Product Manager at the
Wikimedia Foundation. As a product person, I'd like to work with the community
towards more data-driven decision making. One area I'm particularly interested in is
getting a better understanding of our user's lifecycle with our projects -- how they
come to the projects, how they start contributing, their experiences as a contributor, why
they leave, and why they return. I like to use both quantitative and qualitative methods
to obtain as complete a picture as we need to guide our decisions. On the quantitative
side, I'm working on getting better web analytics for our projects. I'm also
interested in any data mining projects along these lines (e.g., contribution behavior,
user lifecycle patterns, etc.). On the qualitative side, I worked on the "Why
Editors Leave Wikipedia" survey and would be interested in other qualitative
measurements (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups). If you're interested in any
of the above topics, please drop me a line.
From Amy
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Public_Policy_Initiative>
(aroth(a)wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Amy, the Research Analyst for the Public Policy
Initiative <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative> . My task
is to assess the project's impact on: U.S. public policy article quality, public
policy categorization, new articles, and new contributors. Through the project I have
focused on article quality assessment, and worked with the community to add a quantitative
value to the current article assessment
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Quality_rating#Rubric>
. As a data analyst, I am interested in improving data accessibility from Wikipedia. In my
dreams, I envision data from the assessment tools that exist within Wikipedia are captured
in a real-time database, so that we can observe what is currently happening in Wikipedia
and how it is evolving in the present, rather than having to use data dumps to get
snapshots of the state of Wikipedia. I have experience analyzing and designing surveys and
would like to use that experience to take a more in depth look at contributor demographics
and motivations. I am excited to be a part of this huge collaborative project with a
mission to make knowledge accessible.
From me, Parul Vora
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Parulvora> (pvora(a)wikimedia.org): Hi
Everyone! I'm a researcher and designer with a focus on participatory and
collaborative spaces. I started at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 and moving forward
have interest in: creating new forms of participation (beyond editing) on the projects
that better engage a wider audience with the content and each other; assessing, evaluating
and addressing the demographic and cultural biases in our projects; and exploring
location, culture and language as they affect the development patterns of different
language Wikipedias in an effort to identify potential for experimentation and catalysis
in younger projects. I'm currently exploring the potential effect feedback systems
(article ratings, expert reviews, visualizations of an article's history or a
user's contributions) can have on the engagement of readers, actions of editors, and
the quality of content over time. I like infovis, ux research, and unresearched
innovation and I am interested in learning more about research with wikipedia on
motivation, behavioral economic modeling and/or game theory, using geolocative data,
mobile experiences, and profiling and trend visualizations......and your work too!
Let us know if you're interested in learning more, participating in, or contributing
to our efforts. And drop any of us a line if we could learn from or contribute to what
you've been working on.......
Thanks so much,
Nimish, Howie, Amy, and Parul.