Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we will be starting our *Wikipedia Admins* showcase in about an hour. *Join us at https://www.youtube.com/live/r88qrgi6ozA <https://www.youtube.com/live/r88qrgi6ozA>*. For those who can't attend the live showcase, the recording will be available at this same link.
Best, Kinneret On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The February Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, > February 26, at 9:30 AM PT / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1740591000>. The theme for this showcase > is *Wikipedia Administrators*. > > We invite you to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://www.youtube.com/live/r88qrgi6ozA. As always, you can join the > conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. > > We have one longer presentation this month: > > > *Where have all the admins gone? Wikipedia administrator recruitment, > retention, and attrition*By *Eli Asikin-Garmager, Yu-Ming Liou, Claudia > Lo, Caroline Myrick (Wikimedia Foundation)* > Wikipedia administrators are users with extra rights who do work beyond > editing, such as settling disputes and preventing repeated vandalism. The > tens of thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of administrative > actions taken every month are vital to the healthy operation of any > language version of Wikipedia. We will present results from a project > investigating reasons administrators come, stay, and leave the role. We > obtained baseline metrics of administrator in/outflow and activity, and > conducted a mixed method, cross-comparative study of potential, current, > and former administrators. Results show that the number of active > administrators on larger Wikipedias has been declining since 2018, with > some exceptions. Our presentation will unpack these findings and explore > topics such as what motivates administrators to stay in the role, and what > barriers may prevent new administrators from joining. > > Best, > Kinneret > > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > *Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>* > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
