On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research > "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] > So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE > will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and > there is still some possibility for other large FOSS projects to join. > > I think it could fit nicely into our recent efforts directed > at newcomer experience after Git migration. And MediaWiki is > a bit different than above projects. > > Are we interested > to include MediaWiki in that research? > > As Kevin explains in his post he tried to avoid spamming mailing > lists to look for project interested, so I am doing this for him :-) > > //Saper
I've worked with Kevin in preparation for his survey and later promotion from the KDE-side quite a bit. This is not the kind of research project that is of no value to the project taking part. I expect the results to be very useful for KDE (and likely also the other projects taking part). Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
