Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

I get where you're coming from, but a great way to inspire the projects to improve their onboarding processes would be an endless influx of newbie editors. *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia>

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

rch to try and figure out what causes conversion (e.g. readers -> editors), and then act on these insights. Wikipedia could absolutely have 100x the number of editors it has now. *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

I had a famous game designer talk about this at Wikimania 2014: http://www.raphkoster.com/games/presentations/wikipedia-is-a-game/ *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitte

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reinforcing or incentivizing desired user behavior

shazam: http://www.raphkoster.com/games/presentations/wikipedia-is-a-game/ *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green

[Wiki-research-l] Software Sustainability Institute petition on Research Software

Hey, saw this going around, might be of interest to some people on this list: The Software Sustainability Institute have set up a petition to recognise the importance of software and software engineers to the research community: http://bit.ly/SoftwareIsFundamental *Edward Saperia* Conference

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Future platforms, devices, and consumers

for other formats on top of. *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 15 Augu

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

things featured in the research newsletter, for example? How do you imagine the winner to be chosen? We can always do something more structured for next year. But this might be a good way to launch the idea of a research award. Ed > On 2 July 2014 10:33, Edward Saperia wrote: > >> >>

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

> I really like the idea of some kind of annual award. > If someone puts it together before Wikimania, I can put it into the closing ceremony? *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org/> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsap