This sounds like a great project. Forwarding. Pine
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July > 1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12: > Growing contributor diversity. [1] Here are a few > announcements/pointers about this program and the research and work > that will be going to it: > > * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project on the > corresponding research page on meta. [2] > * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking > systems. This being said, any task that we can break down and track > will be documented under the corresponding Epic task on Phabricator. > [3] > * The goals for this Program for July-September 2017 (Quarter 1) are > captured on MediaWiki. [4] (The Phabricator epic will be updated with > corresponding tasks as we start working on them.) > * Our three formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this > program: Jérôme Hergueux from ETH, Paul Seabright from TSE, and Bob > West from EPFL. We are thankful to these people who have agreed to > spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and > to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the > proposal for this project and are planning to continue your > contributions to this program. :) > * I act as the point of contact for this research in Wikimedia > Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it > cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments/questions about the > project in the coming year. > > Best, > Leila > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_ > 12:_Grow_contributor_diversity > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > in_a_voluntary_work_environment > [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166083 > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/ > Goals/2017-18_Q1#Research > > -- > Leila Zia > Senior Research Scientist > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l