On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Taha Yasseri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following the previous comment, I'm very much curious to see one of those
> given barnstars. Is it ensured that users are not aware of the experiment?
> how personalised are the awards? May be the awarded editors think their
> activity is being observed by some organisation, and it pretty much
> explains why they become more active after receiving the award!
>
> bests,
> .Taha
>

There is some more detail about this study in the recent research section
of The Signpost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research

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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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