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 &lt;jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > 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 &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> 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)> > >