Hi Florence, A paper by Zhu et al spring to mind, as well as the study of phrasing in template messages by Geiger et al. Although these focus on one-to-one communication on Wiki rather than mass communication, I think they'll be relevant. I think there's also a paper about invitations to join WikiProjects that looks at personalized vs templated messages, but I cannot find it at the moment.
Zhu, H., Kraut, R.E., & Kittur, A., (2013) Effects of Peer Feedback on Contribution: A Field Experiment in Wikipedia. CHI, 2013. Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic? Improving Wikipedia's Notifications to Rejected Contributors by Geiger, Halfaker, Pinchuk, and Walling. ICWSM 2012. Cheers, Morten On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 07:11, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I was interested to know whether there has been any research done around > the use of the Mass Message mediawiki extension and in particular about > impact of using it. > > By extension, I am interested in any research that might be related to > the impact of posting a "template" message (as opposed to an individual > targetted) on a user talk page. > I know the SignPost did a poll in 2017 to evaluate the interest of > switching to the Newsletter extension system. And I remember reading > about impact of notifications. But are there studies related to the > measure of impact in terms of engagement to mass posting on user talk page > ? > > Thanks for any insight you could provide > > > Florence > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
