Hi Janna, I am forwarding this announcement to the Wikipenia and ENWP mailing lists. The presentation looks interesting to me.
Do you know which Wikipedia language edition(s) the author studied for this research? Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 10:49 AM Janna Layton <> wrote: > Hello, everyone, > > The next Research Showcase, *Understanding participation in Wikipedia*, > will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 16, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30 > UTC. This presentation is about new editors. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc51jE_KNTc > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You > can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > This month's presentation: > > *Understanding participation in Wikipedia: Studies on the relationship > between new editors’ motivations and activity* > > By Martina Balestra, New York University > > Peer production communities like Wikipedia often struggle to retain > contributors beyond their initial engagement. Theory suggests this may be > related to their levels of motivation, though prior studies either center > on contributors’ activity or use cross-sectional survey methods, and > overlook accompanied changes in motivation. In this talk, I will present a > series of studies aimed at filling this gap. We begin by looking at how > Wikipedia editors’ early motivations influence the activities that they > come to engage in, and how these motivations change over the first three > months of participation in Wikipedia. We then look at the relationship > between editing activity and intrinsic motivation specifically over time. > We find that new editors’ early motivations are predictive of their future > activity, but that these motivations tend to change with time. Moreover, > newcomers’ intrinsic motivation is reinforced by the amount of activity > they engage in over time: editors who had a high level of intrinsic > motivation entered a virtuous cycle where the more they edited the more > motivated they became, whereas those who initially had low intrinsic > motivation entered a vicious cycle. Our findings shed new light on the > importance of early experiences and reveal that the relationship between > motivation and activity is more complex than previously understood. > > -- > Janna Layton > Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
