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. 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact veterans who may have edited similar pages. If that is the plan, I would strongly encourage you to solicit veterans to sign up to opt in to this experiment. Some veterans may be more willing than others to help newbies. Many veteran editors have plenty of work on their agendas and I'm not sure that asking them to take on yet more work is something that's a good idea. If they opt in to the experiment, like mentors, then I think that would be okay within the scope of this experiment, although I would be very cautious about rolling that out on a large scale to thousands of veterans whose time is very precious. Thanks, 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 Leila, Thanks for the explanation. Further down the road, I hope that we can help newbies with onboarding by improving the ease of use of talk pages, and by automatically presenting them with more helpful resources (like links to the ENWP Teahouse or its equivalents on other wikis), and welcoming and explanatory videos. Good luck with the project. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -------- Original message --------From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 6/11/18 8:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest Hi Pine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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. No, the plan is to pair newcomers with each other. I hope this helps. Best, Leila _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l