Hey folks, The presentations will be starting in about 10 minutes.
The event will be streaming over youtube: http://youtu.be/Rn4-cBYxttA IRC backchannel for questions will be in *#wikimedia-research* See you there! -Aaron On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The next Research & Data showcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase> will > be live-streamed this *Wednesday 6/18* at *11.30 PT*. > > The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the > showcase starts and as usual you can join the conversation on IRC at > #wikimedia-research. > > We look forward to seeing you! > > Dario > > This month: > > MoodBar -- lightweight socialization improves long-term editor retention*by > Giovanni > Luca Ciampaglia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junkie.dolphin>* -- I > will talk about MoodBar <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:MoodBar>, an > experimental feature deployed on the English Wikipedia from 2011 to 2013 to > streamline the socialization of newcomers. I will present results from a > natural experiment that measured the effect of Moodbar on the short-term > engagement and long-term retention of newly registered users attempting to > edit for the first time Wikipedia. Our results indicate that a mechanism to > elicit lightweight feedback and to provide early mentoring to newcomers > significantly improves their chances of becoming long-term contributors. > Active > Editors' Survival Models*by Leila Zia > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)>* -- I will talk about > first results in building prediction models for active editors' survival. A > sample of such prediction models, their performance, and the important > variables in predicting survival will be presented. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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