Hi Kaldari, Thanks for pinging us. :)
I responded on the thread but just to recap here as well: there has been solid research to understand how badges can be used to incentivize users in some other websites in the past (look at this work <https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf>, for example), and I do believe we can/should revive an effort to understand the impact of barnstars in Wikipedia better. The most important step for any effort which is to be successful in practice would be to get the Wikipedia culture component right. Ashton Anderson, one of the authors of the paper above, recently gave a talk about this research at Wiki Research Workshop at WWW, and we had some early discussions about how we can adapt that research to Wikipedia. From my offline discussions and the few comments on the thread you shared, there seems to be at least some community interest in this area, which is great. :) I'll follow up with Ashton. Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove > has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a > while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest > to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of > WikiLove specifically. > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta >> as well. >> >> Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari? >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list. >>> >>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and >>>> they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on >>>> Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), >>>> but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in >>>> Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or >>>> finish whatever piece was still ongoing)? >>>> >>>> It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the >>>> questions and comments about the research data at >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_about_enabling_Wikilove >>>> . >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --Madhu :) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan T. Morgan >> Senior Design Researcher >> Wikimedia Foundation >> User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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