Hoi Gerard,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Is this an English only project?
The short answer is: it's too early to give a response to this
question. I'll expand below if you're interested to know more:
* We need to start small, see if we can show working results, and then
try to go beyond small. :)
* We don't know the state of diversity across (or at least in a few of
the) Wikipedia languages.
* We don't know the state of diversity across (or at least in a few of
the) Wikimedia projects.
* We will probably need to start with a couple of languages that have
a large pool of newcomers who are added to the system organically.
What is "large" is something we don't have an answer for right now.
* We anticipate that an intervention aimed at boosting newcomers'
self-confidence level could have a heterogeneous impact on editor
retention depending on the local culture. This can have impact on the
choice of the languages we start this project in. (We are using plots
such as
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Cultural_map_WVS6_2015.jpg
for brainstorming about this topic.)
* And last but not least: Our strong preference is to do this research
in communities that acknowledge the lack of diversity as an issue for
their community and would like to work with us on this problem. This
is not a one-year project and we need sustained collaboration between
research, the communities involved, and tool/interface developers
(inside and outside of WMF).
All of the above will need to be taken into account when we choose the
language/project.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Leila
Thanks,
GerardM
On 19 July 2017 at 19:32, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July
1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12:
Growing contributor diversity. [1] Here are a few
announcements/pointers about this program and the research and work
that will be going to it:
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project on the
corresponding research page on meta. [2]
* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
systems. This being said, any task that we can break down and track
will be documented under the corresponding Epic task on Phabricator.
[3]
* The goals for this Program for July-September 2017 (Quarter 1) are
captured on MediaWiki. [4] (The Phabricator epic will be updated with
corresponding tasks as we start working on them.)
* Our three formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this
program: Jérôme Hergueux from ETH, Paul Seabright from TSE, and Bob
West from EPFL. We are thankful to these people who have agreed to
spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and
to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
proposal for this project and are planning to continue your
contributions to this program. :)
* I act as the point of contact for this research in Wikimedia
Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments/questions about the
project in the coming year.
Best,
Leila
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_
12:_Grow_contributor_diversity
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_
in_a_voluntary_work_environment
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166083
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/
Goals/2017-18_Q1#Research
--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
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