Thanks for your responses!
I’ll probably be here for the office hour at the end of the month.
My thoughts are that it would be interesting research to do but we’d probably have to target about ~1 000 editors, to get ~100 responses and/or post on the village pumps of most English and multilingual wikis.
We might need to consider asking about the experience that users in these groups but I’d also consider asking:
1) Which of the following groups you fit into: - Neurotypical - Aspergers / Autism Spectrum Disorder - ADHD - Other non-neurotypical disorder
2) Which type of editor you are? - Content Curator - Counter Vandalism Network - Copy-Editor - Image & File curator - Technical Contributor
3) What your homewiki is?
4) Which wikis you are most active in?
Feel free to suggest more possible options and questions, especially wording about experience.
I would also love it if someone can agree to collabarate on it and help get research pages set up & approved.
I probably would collect Wikimedia Username so we can filter duplicate responses and not remond people more than once if we send a reminder but destroy that shortly after it’s complete.
Thanks, RhinosF1
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 16:49, RhinosF1 - rhinosf1@gmail.com wrote:
Evening all,
I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in.
I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers, ADHD and other simmilar conditions.
It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these users were more likely to work in.
Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand there isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want to reveal this information and there is no clear reason for collecting the information but if anyone knows of past research or has any information, that would be helpful.
Stay Safe, RhinosF1 -- Thanks, Samuel