Hi Piotr,
Stats on the number of new editors, and other metrics like that, are held on the stats site: http://stats.wikimedia.org. Particularly, on http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ you will find (under the "community" section" the specifics about that measure.
Philippe
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Staff Introductions. To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Welcome!
I have to say that http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Former_Contributors_Survey_Results of which I've just learned from your post is an excellent piece of research, one that was needed for a very long time.
One question comes to mind: we now, roughly, how many editors we are gaining per months. Are there any estimates on how many we are losing (per month, year, total)? I cannot find such numbers in that survey.
-- Piotr Konieczny
Parul Vora wrote:
Hello everyone,
We (most of the current staff at the Wikimedia Foundation currently engaging in research) had a chance to meet some of you at Wikisym
and
Wikimania this year and thought it would be nice to introduce
ourselves
and say hi to all of you! All of us have joined WMF in the past two years and are working on projects or research questions that may be relevant or of interest to all of you. Also, as far as I know, we
are
all new to this list and will hopefully be talking and collaborating with you more in the future - both here and on the Meta Research
page.
So, in no particular order, some introductions from all of us:
From Nimish <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/
User:Nimish_Gautam>
(ngautam@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Nimish Gautam. I started with the foundation in 2009 doing development for the Usability Initiative,
which
focused on new editors. I like analyzing user behavior to figure
out how
people use the tools we give them (turning templates into a
programming
language, who would've guessed?) and spotting trends so we can
improve
those tools to help people accomplish what it is they're trying to
do.
Currently I'm doing qualitative and quantitative research on user behavior for the foundation and its various projects, and very interested in finding ways of chunking all this information
together to
make pretty, compelling, informative resources so people know what's going on in the wikiverse and hopefully want to be a part of it.
From Howie http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#User_Experience_Programs (hfung@wikimedia.org): Hello! I'm Howie and I'm a Senior Product
Manager
at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a product person, I'd like to work
with
the community towards more data-driven decision making. One area I'm particularly interested in is getting a better understanding of our user's lifecycle with our projects -- how they come to the
projects, how
they start contributing, their experiences as a contributor, why
they
leave, and why they return. I like to use both quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain as complete a picture as we need to
guide
our decisions. On the quantitative side, I'm working on getting
better
web analytics for our projects. I'm also interested in any data
mining
projects along these lines (e.g., contribution behavior, user
lifecycle
patterns, etc.). On the qualitative side, I worked on the "Why
Editors
Leave Wikipedia" survey and would be interested in other qualitative measurements (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups). If you're interested in any of the above topics, please drop me a line.
From Amy http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Public_Policy_Initiative (aroth@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Amy, the Research Analyst for the
Public
Policy Initiative http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative. My
task
is to assess the project's impact on: U.S. public policy article quality, public policy categorization, new articles, and new contributors. Through the project I have focused on article quality assessment, and worked with the community to add a quantitative
value to
the current article assessment <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli... . As a data analyst, I am interested in improving data accessibility
from
Wikipedia. In my dreams, I envision data from the assessment tools
that
exist within Wikipedia are captured in a real-time database, so
that we
can observe what is currently happening in Wikipedia and how it is evolving in the present, rather than having to use data dumps to get snapshots of the state of Wikipedia. I have experience analyzing and designing surveys and would like to use that experience to take a
more
in depth look at contributor demographics and motivations. I am
excited
to be a part of this huge collaborative project with a mission to
make
knowledge accessible.
From me, Parul Vora
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Parulvora (pvora@wikimedia.org): Hi Everyone! I'm a researcher and designer
with a
focus on participatory and collaborative spaces. I started at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 and moving forward have interest in: creating new forms of participation (beyond editing) on the projects that better engage a wider audience with the content and each other; assessing, evaluating and addressing the demographic and cultural
biases
in our projects; and exploring location, culture and language as
they
affect the development patterns of different language Wikipedias
in an
effort to identify potential for experimentation and catalysis in younger projects. I'm currently exploring the potential effect
feedback
systems (article ratings, expert reviews, visualizations of an
article's
history or a user's contributions) can have on the engagement of readers, actions of editors, and the quality of content over time. I like infovis, ux research, and unresearched innovation and I am interested in learning more about research with wikipedia on
motivation,
behavioral economic modeling and/or game theory, using geolocative
data,
mobile experiences, and profiling and trend
visualizations......and your
work too!
Let us know if you're interested in learning more, participating
in, or
contributing to our efforts. And drop any of us a line if we could
learn
from or contribute to what you've been working on.......
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