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This is the canonical directory of Wikimedia research projects that are underway or have recently been completed. Research projects are documented on many different wikis, but should all be findable through this page. To qualify for inclusion in this list, a project should be significant in scope and ethical in nature (according to the guidelines [to be] developed by the Research Committee).

Feel free to edit this list directly consistent with the above policy, or submit your project for consideration (replace "[Project name]" below):

Initiator	Project name	Researchers	Sponsor/supervisor	Key objectives	Begin date	End date
Currently underway
KAIST Business School	Research/Projects/Motivation_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia,_a_Collective_Work	Minn Seok Choi Ingoo Han	None	Understand why users contribute to Wikipedia by motivated by collective benefit and/or selective benefit. Examine how different the motivations of casual users and power users are.	2011-04	2011-05
UC Berkeley School of Information	Wikipedia Progression of Participation Project	Coye Cheshire Oded Nov Judd Antin Raymond Yee	None	Understand how users progress from their first experiences with Wikipedia towards richer forms of participation. Examine how motivations, perceptions, and editing behaviors evolve over time.	2010-09	-
Research Committee	Expert Barriers Survey	Dario Taraborelli Daniel Mietchen Panagiota Alevizou	None	Understand the main barriers to participation for academics, scholars and experts in general Identify effective strategies for expert involvement	2010-12	-
Harvard University Sciences Po Paris Wikimedia community logo Wikimedia community logo	Microfoundations and Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior	Yann Algan Yochai Benkler Mayo Fuster Morell Jérôme Hergueux	Steven Walling	Understand the dynamics of online interactions and behavior through the application of interactive survey methods.	2010-09	2011-09
Template:WMF-small	Contribution Taxonomy Project	Steven Walling	Zack Exley	Identify types of contributors beyond the edit count	2010-08	2011-08
Template:WMF-small	Editor Trends Study	Diederik van Liere	Howie Fung	Given that active editor count is stagnant on mature projects, but we have many new editors per month, are we losing oldbies or newbies?	2010-10	~2010-12
Template:WMF-small	Public Policy Initiative	Amy Roth	Rod Dunican	Improve the content of United States Public Policy within Wikipedia Recruit and retain new subject matter expert contributors in the area of public policy Develop a curriculum of Wikipedia as a teaching tool for use in university classrooms Create a support system within the Wikipedia community for new subject matter expert contributors that is sustainable after the project ends Develop a reproducible working model for engaging experts in any subject area, recruiting new contributors, improving content in that area, and gaining support for these activities from the Wikipedia community	2010-10	2011-09
Wikimedia community logo Wikimedia community logo	Policies and content in several language versions	Ziko van Dijk	None	Comparison of Wikipedias in English, German, Dutch and other languages	2010-07	??
Template:WMF-small	WikiHistories Project	Victoria Doronina Maryana Pinchuk	Zack Exley	Starting with Russian Wikipedia, explore ways of researching and writing narrative histories of Wikimedia projects based on qualitative and quantitative research.	2010-10	??
Wikimedia community logo Wikimedia community logo	Linkypedia	Ed Summers	None	Web based analysis tool for external links in wikipedia to help cultural heritage institutions see the value of continuing to put content online.	2010-07	???
Planned projects
Template:WMF-small	Global South Mobile Platforms Study	Mani Pande Parul Vora	Danese Cooper Barry Newstead	What strategies (in Engineering, in Partnerships) would get us the most impact (in terms of additional Readers and Editors) in the Global South?	2010-11	2011-06
Template:WMF-small	Annual Editor Survey	Mani Pande	Barry Newstead	Conduct the annual survey of editors to understand their tech and editing behaviors	2010-11	2011-06
Template:WMF-small	LiquidThreads User Experience Testing	Brandon Harris	Parul Vora	To assess the updated Liquid Threads interface and inform the next round of iterations.	2011-01	2011-02
Template:WMF-small	Annual Readership Survey	Mani Pande Parul Vora	Barry Newstead	Conduct the annual survey of Wikipedia readers globally & do some concept testing for mobile features	2010-11	2011-06
Template:WMF-small	WMF Summer of Research	Diederik van Liere Maryana Pinchuk Steven Walling	Zack Exley	Bring together a handful of PhD candidates, whose focus is Wikimedia projects, for summer fellowships at the Foundation to build up our research infrastructure while generating a large number of new views into Wikimedia data.	2011-04	2011-09
Recently completed
Template:WMF-small	Revert Trends Report	Erik Zachte	None	What's the likelihood of different types of edits being reverted, over time?	2010-??	2010-08
Template:WMF-small	Pending Changes Study	Devin Finzer	Nimish Gautam	Assess the impact of the English Wikipedia "Pending changes" feature	2010-07	2010-08
Template:WMF-small	Multimedia participation study	Guillaume Paumier	–	Understand the context, goals and motivations of current and prospective contributors to Wikimedia Commons in order to build a better upload interface based on domain research of media sharing sites, and extensive user research. The user research included a study of demographics and content dynamics, a survey, ethnographic interviews, an open forum, and a user experience and usability study.	2009-10	2010-07
Initiator	Project name	Researchers	Sponsor/supervisor	Key objectives	Begin date	End date

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