Research:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011

In June/July 2011 the Wikimedia Foundation will be bringing in a handful of graduate students to work with the Community Department, led by Diederik van Liere and Maryana Pinchuk, for a few months of rapid iterations on vital research questions related to the recruitment and retention of new editors on Wikipedia. If you have any questions or are a Wikimedian interested in participating in either quantitative or qualitative research, please comment on the Talk page.

Preliminary work, March though May

• See our preliminary qualitative research

Research sprints

To create a create a new sprint:

1. Use this form to create the sprint page. Make sure to give your sprint a name.
   
   
2. Add a link to the sprint page under the appropriate week below.
3. Start researchin'

May 16-20

• Diederik's sprint: Public Policy Initiative v. regular editors
• Research:Projects/Newbie reverts and article length -- EpochFail 01:12, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
• Zack's sprint: Random user samples for building databases