Hi Pine,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Leila,
This looks interesting. I have a few questions.
1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates
privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using
usernames would be preferable.
As you can imagine, we deliberated on this for quite some time. The
issue is that on-wiki discussions are not easy for newcomers and we
don't want the complexity of figuring out how to communicate on wiki
get on the way of assessing the performance of the model. The users
will need to make a conscious choice for sharing their emails though,
and there will be a privacy statement associated with this experiment.
2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite
newbies to contact veterans
who may have edited similar pages.
No, the plan is to pair newcomers with each other.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Leila
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from
EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about
New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are
numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in
addressing Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps.
This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia
projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no
information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in
the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_
in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist, Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
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