Thanks, Pine!

Jan,

Pau Giner and I did some interviews with experienced editors about their use of the Notifications feature between October and April (study 1, study 2).

These interviews involved asking participants to interact with prototypes of new Notifications functionality, but also included a series of questions to probe more generally into how editors stay up-to-date on what's happening on pages they are interested in.

Watchlist use was frequently discussed in the first part of the interview (usually during the first 30 minutes or so).

Videos of some of those interview sessions are available:

Round 1
P1: https://youtu.be/z2XyYR2ctRQ
Round 2
P1: https://youtu.be/ogPiWY_L1ik
P3: https://youtu.be/6btcqQSot5Q

Round 3:
P3: https://youtu.be/qqBEECIOxUg
P4: https://youtu.be/M2o4-pPf0_4

Happy to talk with you about this one on one as well, if you're interested.

Jonathan

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jan,

I believe that WMF Community Tech is working toward unifying watchlists across wikis. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist

I like the idea of time-limited watchlist items. You might propose that on Phabricator.

Regarding research (as opposed to enginerring), I am unaware of current research projects but I suggest that you check the archives of the Research Newsletter.

Dario or others may have more information.

Pine


On Jul 20, 2016 01:23, "Jan Dittrich" <jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello Research list,

Are you aware of research on the use of Watchlists on Wikipedia? There are is the wish in the German Community to improve watchlists (one suggestion is the ability to watch a page only for a certain amount of time) but I currently lack the data to find out about the needs behind that and other wishes.

Jan

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