I am reminded of B.J.Fogg's notion of triggers as one of three requisites for behavior. The other two are motivation and ability.
http://www.behaviormodel.org/ This is probably old news on this list as he has been explaining his work for a long time now. Still, any initiative should be analyzed in his terms before launch. Best regards -- Ward On Feb 20, 2017, at 7:24 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. Integrating "push notifications" into training, as well as using them > for recognition and suggestions for skill development, sounds like a good > idea. Thanks for the suggestion! > > Pine > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > I have thought about writing a bot that congratulated active users on account > creation anniversaries and suggested directions for growth. > "Grats X you've been editing for 2 years, here's a picture of a kitten. Have > you thought about doing New Page Patrol?" > > "Grats Y you've been editing for a decade, here's a virtual beer, you've > earned it! Have you thought about applying for adminship?" > > Of course, you'd want to check account account behaviour pretty carefully > first. > > cheers > stuart > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On 21 February 2017 at 14:33, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kerry, > > Thanks for the ideas. Jonathan Morgan, Aaron Halfaker, and I have had more > than one conversation about wikiprojects as a way to engage with new editors. > Unfortunately, there are a lot of derelict wikiprojects. > > I have some ideas about how to improve the training system for ENWP and > Commons in particular. But that's different from the motivation issue, which > I think is more challenging. With enough money and time, the training system > can be upgraded. I'm not sure if the same is true for motivation. I have the > impression that student Wikimedians are mostly motivated by grades (hence the > precipitous decline in their participation after their Wikipedia Education > Program class ends), and many other people are motivated by money or PR > (hence we get a lot of people engaging in promotionalism or PR management.) > It's not clear to me how someone goes from being wiki-curious to feeling > motivated enough to contribute for years. There are many other hobbies that > are lower stress, healthier, offer more opportunities for socializing, and > offer a friendlier environment. I think that some Wikimedians are motivated > by desire to promote or share their interest in a particular topic, which > might keep content creators interested and engaged for years, particularly if > they meet people with similar interests. But it's a phase change to go from > being a content creator or curator, to taking on roles that benefit other > individual Wikimedians, or broad cross-sections of the Wikimedia community. > We could use all of those kinds of good-faith long-term contributors. > > Perhaps we should include information in our training about "career paths" > for Wikimedians who would like to develop their skills and/or move into new > roles? > > I'm not sure what else to suggest. I find it challenging to figure out how to > motivate people to want to contribute productively for years, and there are > some roles for which lengthy experience is an informal but significant > prerequisite for acceptance and/or success. I'd like to see more people make > that journey. > > Pine > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> > wrote: > Pine, > > It sounds to me that there are two separate parts to your question. > > One relates to the survival of such editors to being ongoing active editors. > The second seems to relate to recruiting them and perhaps upskilling them for > specific purposes, eg administration, guild of copy editors, and whatever > initiatives you have in mind. > > The first question probably relates to being able to get them better informed > about the policies of Wikipedia at least in relation to the area of their > contributions and how to engage with the community because it is the abrasive > interaction with the community that seems to drive people away. > > The second probably relates to raising awareness of WikiProjects and other > collaborative initiatives. (Obviously all of WP is collaborative, but some > things require higher levels of coordination and I think this might be what > you are referring to). I think probably needs some analysis of the nature of > their contributions and/or their topics of interest in order to introduce > them to targetted WikiProjects etc that seem logical trajectories for them. > The mistake we make constantly in onboarding newbies is overwhelming them > with information (think of the standard Twinkle welcome templates) because > "THEY NEED TO KNOW THIS" instead of what they want to know "how do I do this > current thing I am trying to do". For similar reasons I think any attempts to > draw them into particular projects/initiatives should be highly targeted, not > too frequent, and based on what their interests seem to be rather where > someone else would like them to work. (I think we should avoid the mindset of > "I need to recruit some cannon fodder"). Having got their attention, someone > probably has to hold their hand through whatever upskilling is needed to get > them productive. Just pointing people at a Project page isn't helpful, there > needs to be some human outreach and shepherding. > > In some idealised universe, we should see Wikipedians as being on a learning > journey, where (through analysis of past contributions and interactions) we > are tracking them against a series of learning objectives (as we do with > coursework curriculum "they have passed this unit, let's offer them some new > units that build on that"). So, using newbies as an example, we look for some > threshold of surviving-edits that demonstrate skills like "add text", "format > text", "add list element", "make links", "make piped links", "add citation", > "add templated citations", "use a template", "edit an infobox", "add an > infobox", write on their talk page, write on an article talk page, write on > another user's talk page, add to their own user page, etc. The idea being to > suggest as various competencies are attained how to add a new skill to their > repertoire. Once they have acquired the basic how-to skills, we could look at > the suggestions of where they might apply these skills and how to specialise > their skills in various ways. > > Kerry > > Sent from my iPad > > On 21 Feb 2017, at 2:49 am, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Research-l, >> >> A human resources problem that I am experiencing is a shortage of human >> resources of community members who are willing, available, and have the >> skills to work on a variety of useful initiatives. Is anyone on this list >> aware of research that talks about motivations of long-term contributors? In >> particular, I'd be interested in research that suggests ways to convert >> productive, relatively new editors (say, 50-500 edits) into long-term >> community members who are likely to develop into long-term, productive >> Wikimedians. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Pine >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
