Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
), and welcoming and explanatory videos. Good luck with the project. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) Original message From: Leila Zia Date: 6/11/18 8:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Pine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W wrote: > > Hi Leila, > > This looks interesting. I have a few questions. > > 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates > privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using > usernames would be preferable.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
Hi Leila, This looks interesting. I have a few questions. 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using usernames would be preferable. 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact

[Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in addressing