Hi all,

The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal Collaboration [1] with Akhil Arora and Ankita Maity from Aarhus University (cc'ed) to work collaboratively on Understanding the use of maintenance templates [2]. We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year.

Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you:

* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the

corresponding research page on meta.[2]

* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking

systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured on Phabricator will be captured there.[3]

* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia

Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it

cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the

project.

Best,

Martin

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_the_use_of_maintenanc...

[3] phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408523