phoebe ayers, 30/07/2012 18:52:
I'm not sure if in the long term focusing on
specific language
communities and recruiting fellows is the sustainable answer for the
WMF -- actually I'm pretty sure it isn't -- but I also don't think it
can hurt to try and build a deep (and as Amir notes cross-project
translated) analysis of how different communities work, and this work
will provide the basis for thinking about project comparisons. This is
one of the deep gaps in the current Wikipedia research, too, and I'd
love to see either the WMF or the research community (or both) do some
deeper work into analyzing classes of projects as well as individual
projects -- do very small Wikipedias share a set of needs? What about
medium-sized ones? Do Asian-language projects share concerns or
similar community structures? etc etc.
For instance I'd like to understand who decided that no editor survey
for non-Wikipedias will ever be made. Nobody has ever answered the
question and we're sick of asking it again. :-)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011#Unanswered_questions_about_previous_survey>
Nemo