Hello Everyone,
I wanted to take a moment to introduce Diederik van Liere [1]. Diederik
will be working with the Foundation on some research projects to help
the community get a better understanding of editor patterns on
Wikipedia. Below is a note from Diederik which gives some insight into
his research experience and interests. He has done some interesting and
relevant work on online communities, most recently as a post-doc at the
Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. We're excited
to have him as a research consultant, so please join me in welcoming him!
Howie
[1] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/diederikvanliere
*Diederik van Liere*
My name is Diederik van Liere and I am a research consultant at the Wikimedia
Foundation. I started last week on a project, in collaboration with Howie Fung
and Erik Moeller, to better understand the editor dynamics of the different
Wikipedia sites. My research interests are around the broad theme of community
management and community effectiveness and in particular how online tools can
help in that regard. I have researched open source communities such as Firefox
and Thunderbird in my previous position at the Rotman School of Management. I
enjoy all phases of quantitative research: writing custom data parsers,
parallelizing 'big data' challenges, and building statistical models to gain
more detailed answers to research questions. I have an interest in developing
tools that will allow for parallelized / distributed data processing in order
to shorten processing time and get answers back to the community faster.
I am excited to be part of this community because I strongly identify with
Wikimedia's mission of making knowledge globally accessible and I am looking
forward to the on- and offline collaborations with you. In the mean time, you
will see the firsts posts about the Editor Dynamics project appearing on this
mailing list and (soon) the Strategy Wiki. Feel free to drop me an email
(dvanliere at gmail dot com) whenever you have a question about these topics.
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