Hey folks!
I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Research team's goals https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Goals#April_-_June_2016_.28Q4.29 for the next quarter (April - July 2016) are up on the wiki.
The Research and Data https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Research_and_Data team will deploy the ORES extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES that makes revision scoring as a service https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Revscoring available within the wiki to Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia as a beta feature. We're also digging into studies of discussion modeling. We'll be releasing datasets of on-wiki discussions and starting our own modeling work to try to detect harassment & personal attacks. We'll be hosting three workshops: WikiCite https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite in Berlin and the Wiki Workshop 2016 http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/ at WWW and ICWSM. We'll be extending our work surveying readers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/S3-English_Large_Scale last quarter by digging into data analysis.
The Design Research https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Design_Research team will support the use of pragmatic personas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personas_for_product_development in product development and analyze data on on Reader, New Editor and New Reader personas. We'll also continue supporting ongoing user-facing projects in Editing, Reading, Search and Community Engagement. We'll perform a new set of deep-dive interviews in Nigeria to extend the deep-dive interviews recently completed for Mexico. We'll deploy surveys to University of Washington students https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Publicly_available_online_learning_resource_survey and complete the analysis of results. We'll also create a project plan for benchmarking UX characteristics of Wikimedia software and to create a stable testing environment to support our user studies of software changes.
We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome feedback on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can contact us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia- http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-researchresearch http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research channel and follow @WikiResearch https://twitter.com/WikiResearch on Twitter for the latest Wikipedia and Wikimedia research updates hot off the press.
-Aaron (on behalf of the team)