Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest
Hi Leila, Thanks for the explanation. Further down the road, I hope that we can help newbies with onboarding by improving the ease of use of talk pages, and by automatically presenting them with more helpful resources (like links to the ENWP Teahouse or its equivalents on other wikis), 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 Interest 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. As you can imagine, we deliberated on this for quite some time. The issue is that on-wiki discussions are not easy for newcomers and we don't want the complexity of figuring out how to communicate on wiki get on the way of assessing the performance of the model. The users will need to make a conscious choice for sharing their emails though, and there will be a privacy statement associated with this experiment. > 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact veterans > who may have edited similar pages. No, the plan is to pair newcomers with each other. I hope this helps. Best, Leila > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia wrote: > > > 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 Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. > > > > This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia > > projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no > > information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in > > the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > > in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > -- > > Leila Zia > > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > ___ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest
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. As you can imagine, we deliberated on this for quite some time. The issue is that on-wiki discussions are not easy for newcomers and we don't want the complexity of figuring out how to communicate on wiki get on the way of assessing the performance of the model. The users will need to make a conscious choice for sharing their emails though, and there will be a privacy statement associated with this experiment. > 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact veterans > who may have edited similar pages. No, the plan is to pair newcomers with each other. I hope this helps. Best, Leila > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia wrote: > > > 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 Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. > > > > This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia > > projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no > > information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in > > the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > > in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > -- > > Leila Zia > > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > ___ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest
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 veterans who may have edited similar pages. If that is the plan, I would strongly encourage you to solicit veterans to sign up to opt in to this experiment. Some veterans may be more willing than others to help newbies. Many veteran editors have plenty of work on their agendas and I'm not sure that asking them to take on yet more work is something that's a good idea. If they opt in to the experiment, like mentors, then I think that would be okay within the scope of this experiment, although I would be very cautious about rolling that out on a large scale to thousands of veterans whose time is very precious. Thanks, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia wrote: > 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 Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. > > This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia > projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no > information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in > the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests > > Best, > Leila > > -- > Leila Zia > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest
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 Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
