Research:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011
This Summer 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, on a few months of rapid iterations on vital research questions related to the recruitment and retention of new editors on Wikipedia. This page is a placeholder for links to our announcements and preliminary research. 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
These datasets and analyses are mostly test cases for the rest of the work for the summer, but do suggest some interesting trends nonetheless. Our basic methodologies are described below.