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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>
> <
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_Policy/Quality_rating#Rubric>.
> 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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