I'm forwarding this announcement to Wikpedia-l. I haven't asked what the researchers' practices are for securing user data, and if privacy is important to you then you may not want to participate. but if you're open with your identity and location and would like to participate in a study about mid-sized and small-sized Wikipedias then this study may interest you.

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lucie-Aimée Kaffee kaffee@soton.ac.uk Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:25 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone,

We are PhD researchers at the University of Southampton working on supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata information. We need your help! We work on generating text and want to understand how to support editors when creating new articles. We are currently conducting a series of interviews to understand the needs of the community better. We are looking for editors of Wikipedia, that would be available to do said interviews remotely (via google hangout or skype) in English. (The editing will still be in your native language of course.) We focus on under-resourced languages, meaning any but the top 5 Wikipedias in terms of article and editor count. It should take about 30 minutes of your time and would get us a better insight into how to support small-language communities better. The interviews will take place in the next two weeks. All of the data will be anonymized.

Please find more information in the Participant Information Sheet: https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews-Particip...

If you want to participate and help us improving access to Wikipedia for under-resourced language communities, just send me an E-Mail at kaffee@soton.ac.uk or sign up to be contacted here: https://goo.gl/forms/gL9wPuYAt8zcpVbA3 You don’t need any prior experience beside Wikipedia editing.

Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks, Lucie (User:Frimelle)