Reminder that the September Research Showcase is this Wednesday. On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello all, > > The September Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on September 15 at 16:30 > UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme will be > "socialization on Wikipedia" with speakers Rosta Farzan and J. Nathan > Matias. > > Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqabVvLIZU > > Talk 1 > > Speaker: Rosta Farzan (School of Computing and Information, University of > Pittsburgh) > > Title: Unlocking the Wikipedia clubhouse to newcomers: results from two > studies > > Abstract: It is no news to any of us that success of online production > communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of > newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board new > sources of ideas and workforce. However, these communities have been > struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse population > of users, and further retention of newcomers. In this talk, I will present > about two different approaches in engaging new editors in Wikipedia: (1) > newcomers joining through the Wiki Ed program, an online program in which > college students edit Wikipedia articles as class assignments; (2) > newcomers joining through a Wikipedia Art+Feminism edit-a-thon. I present > how each approach incorporated techniques in engaging newcomers and how > they succeed in attracting and retention of newcomers. > > More information: > > - Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia > Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_2>, > SocInfo 2016 (pdf > <http://saviaga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/socinfo_ediathons.pdf>) > - Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia > Education Program <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392857>, CSCW > 2020 (pdf > <https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dyang888/docs/cscw_li_2020_wiki.pdf>) > > > Talk 2 > > Speaker: J. Nathan Matias <http://natematias.com/> (Citizens and > Technology Lab <http://citizensandtech.org/>, Cornell University > Departments of Communication and Information Science) > > Title: The Effect of Receiving Appreciation on Wikipedias. A Community > Co-Designed Field Experiment > > Abstract: Can saying “thank you” make online communities stronger & more > inclusive? Or does thanking others for their voluntary efforts have little > effect? To ask this question, the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) > organized 344 volunteers to send thanks to Wikipedia contributors across > the Arabic, German, Polish, and Persian languages. We then observed the > behavior of 15,558 newcomers and experienced contributors to Wikipedia. On > average, we found that organizing volunteers to thank others increases > two-week retention of newcomers and experienced accounts. It also caused > people to send more thanks to others. This study was a field experiment, a > randomized trial that sent thanks to some people and not to others. These > experiments can help answer questions about the impact of community > practices and platform design. But they can sometimes face community > mistrust, especially when researchers conduct them without community > consent. In this talk, learn more about CAT Lab's approach to community-led > research and discuss open questions about best practices. > > More information: > > - > > Volunteers Thanked Thousands of Wikipedia Editors to Learn the Effects > of Receiving Thanks > > <https://citizensandtech.org/2020/06/effects-of-saying-thanks-on-wikipedia/>, > blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) <https://osf.io/ueq5f/> > - > > The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale > Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks > <https://osf.io/ueq5f/>, paper preprint > > > More information: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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