Wikilove the tool in particular, or barnstars/appreciation in general?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 found productive people, gave half of them barnstars, and looked to see what happened. - "receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Wikipedia_Community had a general question about appreciation through barnstars etc, but "do you like people saying nice things" is not the most rigorous study ;-)
Andrew.
On 25 July 2013 22:32, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
A colleague asks for a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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