Hi Lucie,
Your project sounds interesting. Are you coordinating your work with Marshall Miller and WMF's renewed efforts to increase the size of the population of contributors on mid-sized Wikipedias? See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth. The initial focus of WMF will be on Czech and Korean Wikipedias. The WMF Growth Team may have some data or plans that may be relevant to your research, and vice versa.
You might also consider reaching out to the Small Wiki Monitoring Team (SWMT) at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Monitoring_Team to ask for advice and referrals to contributors who have extensive experience on small and mid-sized Wikipedias.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:03 PM Lucie-Aimée Kaffee kaffee@soton.ac.uk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am writing in the hope that some of you do not only do great research in the Wikimedia spaces, but are also editors. Particularly, editors of smaller Wikipedias (i.e. all Wikipedias but English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian).
I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton, and we have been working on supporting editors with automated text generation [1].
We would like to extend the research in this direction by conducting a series of interviews with editors (either in person or via skype) to understand in more detail how we can support the community in the future. The interviews should take about 30 minutes each and will happen end of August and in September. More information can be found here:
https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews-Particip...
If you would be interested in participating, please let me know. If you might now an editor, that could be interested, please connect us! It will help us a great deal to understand how to support Wikipedia editors better, particularly of the smaller sized Wikipedias.
I am looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks, Lucie
[1] Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders, Kaffee, Elsahar, Vougiouklis et al., 2018,
https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ESWC2018_paper_...
-- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l