Hi Haifeng,

In addition to the two you mention, WikiProjects might have "Collaboration of the Week", there's the WikiCup, there's Wiki Ed. We studied all of those in our 2015 CSCW paper: The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production Communities https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~morten/publications/cscw2015-improvementprojec...

I would also recommend looking at the research on article quality that has been done by Kane & Ransbotham. Right now I don't have the time to look up their work again, but if I remember correctly they also looked at the virtuous cycle of traffic and quality.

Cheers, Morten

On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 17:39, Haifeng Zhang haifeng1@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Kerry. I meant any kind of quality improvement.

Some mechanisms may target specific type of editors, and others might be quite general.

Best,

Haifeng Zhang

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"Article quality" is quite a wide topic. I would imagine most good faith contributors believe they are improving the quality of an article with every edit. Do you have some specific type of quality improvement in mind? E.g. more citations, more content, fewer spelling errors?

Kerry

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Dear folks,

I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects) which may attract editors to improve article quality.

One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects, GA/FA nominations seem useful too.

Thanks,

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There are, broadly, two kinds of ways to attract editors, ways that attract existing wikipedia editors to specific articles (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuggestBot , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Rescue_Squadron and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement ) and those which attract new editors to the project (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon and other outreach projects).

Both of these are worthwhile efforts, but the latter might be preferred because by potentially expanding the size of the overall community allows more editing to be achieved in the long-run.

cheers stuart

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On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 12:39, Haifeng Zhang haifeng1@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Kerry. I meant any kind of quality improvement.

Some mechanisms may target specific type of editors, and others might be quite general.

Best,

Haifeng Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University ________________________________ From: Wiki-research-l wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019 6:16:12 PM To: 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities' Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Ways thru which articles could attract editors

"Article quality" is quite a wide topic. I would imagine most good faith contributors believe they are improving the quality of an article with every edit. Do you have some specific type of quality improvement in mind? E.g. more citations, more content, fewer spelling errors?

Kerry

-----Original Message----- From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Haifeng Zhang Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2019 7:53 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Ways thru which articles could attract editors

Dear folks,

I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects) which may attract editors to improve article quality.

One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects, GA/FA nominations seem useful too.

Thanks,

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