Thank you Steven, <div>If the mentioned IP, who has distributed the barnstars is related to this research, one should be really careful on interpreting the results, as all we know,  it&#39;s not the normal workflow in WP to award the editors.</div>
<div>bests,</div><div>.taha<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Steven Walling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">swalling@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Taha Yasseri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:taha.yaseri@gmail.com" target="_blank">taha.yaseri@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Following the previous comment, I&#39;m very much curious to see one of those given barnstars. Is it ensured that users are not aware of the experiment? how personalised are the awards? May be the awarded editors think their activity is being observed by some organisation, and it pretty much explains why they become more active after receiving the award!<br>



<br>bests,<br>.Taha</div></blockquote></div><br></div>There is some more detail about this study in the recent research section of The Signpost: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">


<div><br></div>-- <br><div><div><div>Steven Walling</div><div><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" target="_blank">https://wikimediafoundation.org/</a></div></div></div><br>
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