Hi Leila, Thanks for the explanation. Further down the road, I hope that we can help newbies with onboarding by improving the ease of use of talk pages, and by automatically presenting them with more helpful resources (like links to the ENWP Teahouse or its equivalents on other wikis), and welcoming and explanatory videos. Good luck with the project. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -------- Original message --------From: Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> Date: 6/11/18 8:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest Hi Pine,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Leila, > > This looks interesting. I have a few questions. > > 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates > privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using > usernames would be preferable. As you can imagine, we deliberated on this for quite some time. The issue is that on-wiki discussions are not easy for newcomers and we don't want the complexity of figuring out how to communicate on wiki get on the way of assessing the performance of the model. The users will need to make a conscious choice for sharing their emails though, and there will be a privacy statement associated with this experiment. > 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact veterans > who may have edited similar pages. No, the plan is to pair newcomers with each other. I hope this helps. Best, Leila > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from > > EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about > > New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are > > numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in > > addressing Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. > > > > This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia > > projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no > > information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in > > the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > > in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > -- > > Leila Zia > > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
