Hoi Gerard, On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > Is this an English only project?
The short answer is: it's too early to give a response to this question. I'll expand below if you're interested to know more: * We need to start small, see if we can show working results, and then try to go beyond small. :) * We don't know the state of diversity across (or at least in a few of the) Wikipedia languages. * We don't know the state of diversity across (or at least in a few of the) Wikimedia projects. * We will probably need to start with a couple of languages that have a large pool of newcomers who are added to the system organically. What is "large" is something we don't have an answer for right now. * We anticipate that an intervention aimed at boosting newcomers' self-confidence level could have a heterogeneous impact on editor retention depending on the local culture. This can have impact on the choice of the languages we start this project in. (We are using plots such as http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Cultural_map_WVS6_2015.jpg for brainstorming about this topic.) * And last but not least: Our strong preference is to do this research in communities that acknowledge the lack of diversity as an issue for their community and would like to work with us on this problem. This is not a one-year project and we need sustained collaboration between research, the communities involved, and tool/interface developers (inside and outside of WMF). All of the above will need to be taken into account when we choose the language/project. I hope this helps. Best, Leila > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 19 July 2017 at 19:32, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July >> 1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12: >> Growing contributor diversity. [1] Here are a few >> announcements/pointers about this program and the research and work >> that will be going to it: >> >> * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project on the >> corresponding research page on meta. [2] >> * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking >> systems. This being said, any task that we can break down and track >> will be documented under the corresponding Epic task on Phabricator. >> [3] >> * The goals for this Program for July-September 2017 (Quarter 1) are >> captured on MediaWiki. [4] (The Phabricator epic will be updated with >> corresponding tasks as we start working on them.) >> * Our three formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this >> program: Jérôme Hergueux from ETH, Paul Seabright from TSE, and Bob >> West from EPFL. We are thankful to these people who have agreed to >> spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and >> to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the >> proposal for this project and are planning to continue your >> contributions to this program. :) >> * I act as the point of contact for this research in Wikimedia >> Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it >> cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments/questions about the >> project in the coming year. >> >> Best, >> Leila >> >> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ >> Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_ >> 12:_Grow_contributor_diversity >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ >> in_a_voluntary_work_environment >> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166083 >> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/ >> Goals/2017-18_Q1#Research >> >> -- >> Leila Zia >> Senior Research Scientist >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
