Are you a Wikipedia Trainer, or have you been an active editor (approximately 5+ edits per month) for the last year or more?

In collaboration with The IDEA Network at the University of St Andrews and Wikimedia UK, you are invited to participate in an online discussion group to help us better understand how to support collaborative Wikipedia editing and to better accommodate Wikipedia newcomers’ different learning strategies  and levels of expertise.

We invite you to discuss your experience with a group of Wikipedia trainers and active editors (18+). Our session on Friday 17th December, 2-4 pm GMT will explore the social and technical components of online Wikipedia training to identify challenges faced by newcomers. 

The event will take place online using Microsoft Teams. Your participation in this 1-2 hours session is voluntary. You will be compensated with £15 worth of gift voucher for the session as a thank-you for your time. There is also the option to donate the voucher to a charity of your choice.

This is part of a PhD research project. The link below has the Participant Information Sheet, which contains additional information about the discussion groups and what type of data we are going to collect during these sessions. 

https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/CP/File.php?F=F_3NMSU60HanRTNHM

If you are interested in signing up for this session or future follow-up sessions, please click on the following link. 

https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a35206eWm8egx2S

You will then be sent the link to the consent form and, from there, the pre-event survey. You can also send us your questions at aaa8@st-andrews.ac.uk.  

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the researchers. Their details are below:

Contact Details

Researchers:

• Abd Alsattar Ardati (aaa8@st-andrews.ac.uk)

• Dr Sara Thomas (sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk)

• Dr Richard Nevell (richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk)

• Dr Kirsty Ross (ksrh1@st-andrews.ac.uk )

Supervisors:

• Prof Ian Gent (ian.gent@st-andrews.ac.uk)

• Dr Alexander Voss (alex.voss@st-andrews.ac.uk)

• Dr Uta Hinrichs (uh3@st-andrews.ac.uk)

• Dr Angela Miguel (arm14@st-andrews.ac.uk)

School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Jack Cole Building, North Haugh St Andrews, KY16 9SX

+44 1334 46 3262