I posted on the talkpage, offering to provide any information I have, and asking about the need for research.

I'm not aware of any research that has explicitly tested that hypothesis. And the Barnstar paper is... controversial... among wiki researchers. 

I wonder if there's a concern that implementing WikiLove will cause some sort of harm to the wiki?

Jonathan



On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of WikiLove specifically.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta as well.

Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?

Jonathan

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?

It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the questions and comments about the research data at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_about_enabling_Wikilove.

Thanks!

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