The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes. Topics today are WikiProject and the "Thanks" feature. Info below:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 2:57 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Just a reminder that this Showcase will be happening on Wednesday. > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:49 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hello, everyone, >> >> The next Research Showcase, “Group Membership and Contributions to Public >> Information Goods: The Case of WikiProject” and “Thanks for Stopping By: >> A Study of ‘Thanks’ Usage on Wikimedia,” will be live-streamed next >> Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 11:30 AM PDT/19:30 UTC. >> >> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb5LoJzOoE >> >> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. >> You can also watch our past research showcases here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase >> >> This month's presentations: >> >> >> >> Group Membership and Contributions to Public Information Goods: The Case >> of WikiProject >> >> By Ark Fangzhou Zhang >> >> Abstract: >> >> We investigate the effects of group identity on contribution behavior on >> the English Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia that gives free >> access to the public. Using an instrumental variable approach that exploits >> the variations in one’s exposure to WikiProject, we find that joining a >> WikiProject has a significant impact on one’s level of contribution, with >> an average increase of 79 revisions or 8,672 character per month. To >> uncover the potential mechanism underlying the treatment effect, we use the >> size of home page for WikiProject as a proxy for the number of >> recommendations from a project. The results show that the users who join a >> WikiProject with more recommendations significantly increase their >> contribution to articles under the joined project, but not to articles >> under other projects. >> >> >> >> Thanks for Stopping By: A Study of ‘Thanks’ Usage on Wikimedia >> >> By Swati Goel >> >> Abstract: >> >> The Thanks feature on Wikipedia, also known as "Thanks," is a tool with >> which editors can quickly and easily send one other positive feedback. The >> aim of this project is to better understand this feature: its scope, the >> characteristics of a typical "Thanks" interaction, and the effects of >> receiving a thank on individual editors. We study the motivational impacts >> of "Thanks" because maintaining editor engagement is a central problem for >> crowdsourced repositories of knowledge such as Wikimedia. Our main findings >> are that most editors have not been exposed to the Thanks feature (meaning >> they have never given nor received a thank), thanks are typically sent >> upwards (from less experienced to more experienced editors), and receiving >> a thank is correlated with having high levels of editor engagement. Though >> the prevalence of "Thanks" usage varies by editor experience, the impact of >> receiving a thank seems mostly consistent for all users. We empirically >> demonstrate that receiving a thank has a strong positive effect on >> short-term editor activity across the board and provide preliminary >> evidence that thanks could compound to have long-term effects as well. >> >> >> -- >> Janna Layton (she, her) >> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > > > -- > Janna Layton (she, her) > Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
