Hi all,

The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new Formal Collaboration [1] with researchers from University of Pennsylvania and American University to work collaboratively on Understanding Curious and Critical Readers [2] as part of the Knowledge Integrity Program [3].

Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would like to share with you:

* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the corresponding research page on meta.[2]

* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured on Phabricator will be captured there.[3]

* The following formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this program: Dani S. Bassett, David Lydon-Staley, Shubhankar Patankar, Dale Zhou (all University of Pennsylvania), and Perry Zurn (American University). We are thankful to them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the proposal for this project and are planning to continue your contributions to this program.

* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the project.

Best,

Martin

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Curious_and_Critical_...

[3] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-integrity.html