Hi Leila, This looks interesting. I have a few questions.
1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using usernames would be preferable. 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact veterans who may have edited similar pages. If that is the plan, I would strongly encourage you to solicit veterans to sign up to opt in to this experiment. Some veterans may be more willing than others to help newbies. Many veteran editors have plenty of work on their agendas and I'm not sure that asking them to take on yet more work is something that's a good idea. If they opt in to the experiment, like mentors, then I think that would be okay within the scope of this experiment, although I would be very cautious about rolling that out on a large scale to thousands of veterans whose time is very precious. Thanks, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from > EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about > New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are > numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in > addressing Wikipedia contributor diversity gaps. > > This research is aimed to address the cold start problem in Wikimedia > projects, when a user enters the system and you have almost no > information about the user and yet you want to engage with the user in > the areas they're interested in. Please see project details at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_ > in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests > > Best, > Leila > > -- > Leila Zia > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > 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
