[RCom-l] New project on wiki anxiety

[Fuster, Mayo]

Hi! In case it is useful feedback. In Barcelona, I am collaborating with a team at Barcelona Media which is researching the emotional dimension of Wikipedians. The method is based on large-data analysis of presence of keywords that are associated to particular emotions. There are several types of this type of emotional-associated words and this technique has been used also for other type of "text" analysis. In this research design, you don't need to ask wikipedians how do you feel, but you obtain an stimation of their emotional stage from the words they use while interacting with others. For example, is the people who feel more secure about themselves and in an empowered possition the one who edits more or do some type of editing?. 
In anycase, this is just for info. I find also interesting your research design. 
Cheers! Mayo

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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info

Fellow Berkman center of Internet and Society. Harvard University.
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation
Ph.D European University Institute
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.

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From: rcom-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [rcom-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dario Taraborelli [dtaraborelli at wikimedia.org]
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Subject: [RCom-l] New project on wiki anxiety

A new project has been added to the Research directory:  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Investigating_editing_anxiety_in_new_users

The PI – Benjamin Cowan – is an HCI researcher based in Edinburgh and I had a few conversations with him on this project over the last weeks.
This research sounds very timely and relevant to WMF's work on new user engagement (I am cc'ing the Summer of Research list), but we need to figure out how to best handle the recruitment of participants.
One option we discussed would be to (temporarily) integrate a questionnaire into the new MoodBar feature [1], but I need to discuss this internally with the tech people.

In the meantime your feedback is very welcome. I told Ben we need more information, for example on the target sample size. He'll be adding more details in the coming days.

Dario

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar
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