Hoi,
Do yourself a favour and contact them. Talk to them and make sure that you
do not do the same work twice.
Thanks,
Gerard
2009/6/15 Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> Gerard,
>
> It seems that the Usability Initiative has a related, but differing goal
> from our work. We have not worked with them in any direct way. We are
> definitely able and willing to collaborate with them. We are interested
> in the cultural aspects of Wikipedia, but our current work deals with
> very specific interface modifications in Wikipedia. This current study
> is very preliminary. It seems likely that we will expand support of our
> interface modification to other languages if the results show that the
> tool is helpful.
>
> -Aaron
>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Did you talk to the people of the Usability Initiative ? Are you able
> > and willing to collaborate with them? Are you able and willing to
> > study the impact of other languages, scripts and cultures to the
> > usability of Wikipedia?
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > 2009/6/15 Aaron Halfaker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a researcher in the GroupLens lab (http://grouplens.org) at the
> > University of Minnesota. You might recognize our previous work in
> > Wikipedia like "Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in
> > Wikipedia"
> >
> > (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf<http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ereid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf>
> > <http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ereid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf
> >).
> >
> > As part of our continuing work within Wikipedia, my colleagues and
> > I are
> > conducting an academic (non-commercial) user study where we have
> > developed an interface modification that is designed to help users
> > work
> > together more effectively by changing the interface for reverting
> > other
> > editors. You can help us complete this study by installing and using
> > our modification.
> >
> > If you choose to participate in the study, you will be automatically
> > assigned a Wikipedia gadget that will consist of a subset of the
> > modifications we have developed. As part of the study, we will be
> > logging your usage of the tool (ie. when you are reverting other
> > editors).
> >
> > Throughout the study, we will be available for tech support and bug
> > fixes. There will be a survey at the completion and the entire tool
> > will be made publicly available.
> >
> > Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/
> > Wikipedia user script page:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/NICE
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Aaron Halfaker
> > GroupLens Research
> > University of Minnesota
> >
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