Hi Kiril,
Thank you for sharing your proposal.
I am concerned about the possibility of Wikipedia being used as a laboratory for experiments that consume volunteers' time and/or personal data, and don't benefit Wikipedia or its participants. Does your research benefit the community, and if so, how? It sounds like your research intends to develop a model of decision trees for individual Wikipedians, and at first read I don't understand how the individual research subjects or the community would benefit.
Sorry if this sounds defensive, but I hope that you understand why I'm asking.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 6:00 PM Kiril Simeonovski kiril.simeonovski@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am currently working on a research concerned with modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia. The idea is to design a field experiment over a random sample of Wikipedians in order to examine their risk preferences and define (dis)utilities that will be used in a utility-maximisation model.
I have already submitted an abstract that got accepted for the biennial Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2020 https://www.furconference.org/ and my future plans include presentation of the concept at other research conferences (including Wikimania 2020).
You can visit the project page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Modelling_Behaviour_in_a_Peer_Production_Economy_upon_Evidence_from_Wikipedia of this research on Meta. Your questions and comments are welcome at any time. Thank you!
Best regards, Kiril _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l