On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Taha Yasseri <taha.yaseri(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Following the previous comment, I'm very much
curious to see one of those
given barnstars. Is it ensured that users are not aware of the experiment?
how personalised are the awards? May be the awarded editors think their
activity is being observed by some organisation, and it pretty much
explains why they become more active after receiving the award!
bests,
.Taha
There is some more detail about this study in the recent research section
of The Signpost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recen…
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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/