Here's an update on a design research project we recently did at the Wikimedia Foundation.

The discussion sections are geared toward a general rather than a scholarly audience, but you are all more than welcome to attend. We hope to do a research showcase presentation in the future as well.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Patel Quinn nquinn@wikimedia.org Date: 27 September 2017 at 03:39 Subject: The secret lives of new editors: research report and discussion sessions To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone!

In May and June of this year, a team of researchers from the Wikimedia Foundation and Reboot [1] traveled to the South Korea and the Czech Republic to learn more about the experiences new editors have on the Czech and Korean Wikipedias.

We interviewed 47 new editors and 17 experienced editors and (with an intermediate stop on several thousand sticky notes) summarized what we learned in 11 findings. You can learn more about the project and see our full report on our wiki page, mw:New Editor Experiences [2].

Of the 11 findings we identified, some may be surprising to you, while others may reinforce what you already knew. Either way, we'd love to know what you think. We're holding two public discussion sessions next week to talk briefly about our findings and then take questions and comments.

We hope you'll come! The two sessions will be at: 1. Wednesday, October 4, 09:30–11:00 PDT (16:30–18:00 UTC) 2. Thursday, October 5, 21:00–22:30 PDT (Friday, October 6, 04:00–05:30 UTC)

Full details and instructions on how to join are at mw:New Editor Experiences/October 2017 discussions [3].

[1]: https://reboot.org/ [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences/Octobe r_2017_discussions