We ran a badges pilot in the Teahouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3ABADGE&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE5pNVgLZsDPv2yO2EYa2c1XVbFwQ

The research page is particularly useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE/research https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3ABADGE%2Fresearch&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFHBBbA7mNpJM5U4soEVvtA2_etjg

Also, here is the motivation research page for TWA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Research https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AThe_Wikipedia_Adventure%2FResearch&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFRPStDLqgka4oi3miNyT3P3pshDw

Hope this helps!

Jake

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:38 PM Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@wikimedia.org wrote:

We ran a badges pilot in the Teahouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE

The research page is particularly useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE/research

Also, here is the motivation research page for TWA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Research

Hope this helps!

Jake

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:29 AM Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Hi Pine,

The book *Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence Based Social Design*[1] provides a great synthesis of concepts from economics, sociology, and cognitive psychology as they apply to the design of projects like Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia is one of the primary case studies used in the book. They have several chapters that focus on motivation techniques/tools. The book is easy to skim and apply!

Hope that helps, Jonathan

1. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-successful-online-communities

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all,

Some of us plan to have a conversation at the WCONUSA unconference sessions about ENWP culture. Are there any recommended readings that you could suggest as preparation, particularly on the subject of how to reinforce or incentivize desirable user behavior? I think that Jonathan may have done some research on this topic for the Teahouse, and Ocassi may have for done research for TWA. I'm interested in applicable research as preparation both for the unconference discussion and for my planned video series that intends to inform and inspire new editors.

Thanks, Pine

-- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)