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.

Resources

• Measuring editor retention

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

• Quality of PPI editor work -- Drdee
• Newbie reverts and article length -- EpochFail
• Generating a common editor sample -- Zack

June 1-3 Mini-sprint

• Newbie Teaching Strategy Trends -- Staeiou MKill Jtmorgan

June 6-10

• Patroller work load -- EpochFail
• Alternative lifecycles of new users -- Staeiou, Jtmorgan
• Taxonomy - Deletions -- Diederik
• Ignored period and retention - Whym