Hi all,
We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in addressing Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps.
This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_...
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation