I posted on the talkpage, offering to provide any information I have, and asking about the need for research.
I'm not aware of any research that has explicitly tested that hypothesis. And the Barnstar paper is... controversial... among wiki researchers. I wonder if there's a concern that implementing WikiLove will cause some sort of harm to the wiki? Jonathan On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove > has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a > while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest > to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of > WikiLove specifically. > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta >> as well. >> >> Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari? >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < >> mviswanat...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list. >>> >>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and >>>> they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on >>>> Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove), >>>> but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in >>>> Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or >>>> finish whatever piece was still ongoing)? >>>> >>>> It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the >>>> questions and comments about the research data at >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_about_enabling_Wikilove >>>> . >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --Madhu :) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan T. Morgan >> Senior Design Researcher >> Wikimedia Foundation >> User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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