Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Miscellaneous
Research and findings
[edit ]Notes
[edit ]- CEE 2016 meeting notes
- 2016 Wikimedia Foundation Leadership Team Retreat
Efforts by movement entities
[edit ]Inventory
[edit ]This page is currently a draft. More information pertaining to this may be available on the talk page.
Translation admins: Normally, drafts should not be marked for translation.- http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2015_human_development_report_1.pdf
- Editor Survey
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-August/085080.html : Foundation:File:Report.WikimediaJapan.f.071916.pdf & Foundation:File:Wikimedia Survey 2014 English Fundraiser.pdf
- Wmnl:Bestand:Communityhealth.pdf , Wmnl:Bestand:Report survey NLWP editors.pdf , Wmnl:Bestand:Survey among readers of Wikipedia 2015.pdf
- Chapters Dialogue
- RuWiki History (Doronina and Pinchuk)/English & Research:WikiHistories fellowship
- Research:WMF Strategy document: Research about contributors, including What we have (to integrate here), What we don't know.
- Wikimedia's culture of sharing (input into the 2012 fundraising debate)
- Overview of affiliates, incl. map
- Audit of past strategy processes
High-level stats
[edit ]Year | Page | Description |
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Ongoing | Active editors dashboard [dead link ] | WMF analytics dashboard allows us to see rolling active editors for prior month of any project |
Ongoing | Edit history charts for top 50 Wikipedias | |
Ongoing? | List of Wikipedias | Note the Depth metric: "The "Depth" column (Edits/Articles ×ばつ Non-Articles/Articles ×ばつ [1−Stub-ratio]) is a rough indicator of a Wikipedia’s quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated." |
Ongoing | List of Wikimedia projects by size | |
Ongoing | High-level Wikimedia stats portal | |
Ongoing | Wikimedia project summaries | See a verbose chart with similar data on articles, number of active editors, etc |
Ongoing | New Wikipedians | |
2002-2012/13 | Wikimedia project growth | |
Ongoing | Site performance dashboards for editors | For example, see Visual Editor latency |
2009-2014 | Squid reports of edits by country | |
? | What skins do our users use? | |
? | Bot activity chart | |
Ongoing | Activity by mailing list | |
2002-2017 | New admins on ENWP by month | |
Ongoing? | Users/admins compared to other wikis | |
Unknown? | Edits from Mobile? | |
2007-2014 | Education dashboard |
Survey resources
[edit ]Year | Survey | Description |
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2015 | WMSV infographic on contributors | Based on this research. |
2012 - 2015 | Fundraising focus groups | Available with Megan |
2014 | Global South Survey | Available with Haitham |
2012 | Editor survey (questions) | Tilman not yet releasing data, concerned about how it will be used due to incomparable collection methodologies |
Dec 2011 | Editor survey | |
Apr 2011 | Editor survey | |
2008 | Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT (with WMF) | Blog posts & lots of backstory on Meta. |
2009 | Multimedia study | |
? | Wikipedia Library user survey | Survey of active content contributors using The Wikipedia Library (spoiler alert: they want more free resources) |
? | Ongoing usability surveys | Check w/ Abby? |
2013 | WMNL survey | |
2014 | Survey from Wiki Ed Foundation |
Key finding about surveys: Collection methodology differed from each survey, and much of the methodology was flawed so unlikely to be repeated in future. Thus, can't help us benchmark for year over year changes. Much of the data in these surveys is old enough that it may be better to start over, and think about a cleaner year-to-year collection setup.
Resources on trends
[edit ]Year | Study | Descriptions |
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Ongoing | Activity chart from the top 50 Wikipedias | |
2010 | 2010 strategy editor trends study | |
2012 | Editor Milestones | |
2012 | Portuguese Wikipedia trends and behavior | |
2014 | The sudden decline of Italian Wikipedia | |
2014 | / Grantmaking's analysis of Global South contributor trends + gender diversity summary | see slides 4-6 |
Structure and organization of content contributors
[edit ]Date | Source | Notes |
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July 2012 | Wikimania presentation on editor motivations | |
2012 | Philippe's talk on how not to structure a community | We should get this from Philippe |
2013 | Wikimedia movement mindmap | Note where content projects fit into the |
2014 | Organizational hierarchy of content contributors | See these pages for some context and Wikipedia sociology |
Programs that (might) impact contributors
[edit ]Project | Program | Who initiated? | Notes |
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RUWP | Инкубатор (new editor assistance) | Community | |
ENWP | Teahouse | WMF | New editors who visit the Teahouse contribute 2-3x more than the control group w/ similar early editing patterns (measured in # of edits, # of articles, # of talk page discussions, and # of weeks they return to Wikipedia. [1] |
FRWP | Forum des nouveaux | Community | |
global | On-wiki writing contests | Community / Grantees (?) | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
global | WLM | Grantees | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
global | Wikipedia Education Program | WMF (?) | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
global | Edit-a-thons | Community / grantees(?) | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
global | Editing workshops | Community(?) | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
global | Other photo initiatives | Community(?) | let's pull out any key contributor findings from this report |
- See Warncke-Wang, M., Ayukaev, V. R., Hecht, B., & Terveen, L. The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production Communities. pdf -- Reviews the effect of a bunch of Wiki initiatives to increase editing.
Research repositories
[edit ]Repository | Notes |
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Wikimedia Research Projects | WMF's research on various topics |
WikiLit | A literature review of Wikipedia |
WikiPapers | Bibliography and other details of scholarly research of wikis |
"wikipedia" tag on CiteULike | Some citations? |
usability:Category:Multimedia usability - Research and Multimedia Usability Project report (2009-2010) | |
Scholia topic: Wikipedia | List of research papers |
General
[edit ]- Meatball Wiki
- strategy:Wikimedia-pedia and strategy:Participation
- DataHub dumps
- The Growth Team did a few very interesting studies.
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Global South Strategy (see slide 4, 7, etc)
- Grantmaking quarterly review (see slides 33-34)
Other communities
[edit ]- StackExchange editor decline (serverfault) — A recent (2014-12) thread on wiki-research-l
- Digital Ecologies Research Partnership
Product trends
[edit ]Industry knowledge
[edit ]Other possible inputs
[edit ]This list is a ongoing brain storm of potential reports or "inputs" into the movement strategy process. The goal here is to deepen the level of discussion that takes place during the tracks. Let’s build this list and then discuss which ones we want to do in-person/hangout.
Should be an analysis or report that someone can read in ten minutes and gives person basic understanding of the topic. Max five pages and using common language - avoids technical jargon and deep analysis.
We will post all reports on meta and encourage community members to also contribute reports and/or add to the reports we share.
Consider which resources should be translated as a priority, perhaps pending initial community interest
- 2030 Report: demographic data for the world in 2030. Done!
- An analysis of how we are doing on the reaching every single person part of the mission through an economic lens. Maybe looking at # of edits, # of pageviews, money raised, and money granted according to the World Bank’s four categories for country income (High, upper-middle, lower-middle, low). Suggester: Lisa
- Content Analysis of different language Wikipedias (percentage of pop culture articles, hard science, etc.) Suggester: Asaf
- A look at the sister projects and why they have not taken off. An analysis of the field related to them. Who else might be doing these things too? Is there still a need for some of the projects? Are other actors meeting the need? (e.g. https://en.wikitolearn.org) Suggester: Asaf +1
- An Analysis of the OER space: Who is doing what and are there any voids that we should be trying to fill? Note: There might already be a report covering most of this (Hewlett or Creative Commons) Suggester: Lisa, +1+1 (related to previous item)
- Breakdown of movement affiliates: how many, what types, differences between types, if differences are working, budget breakdown of affiliates, staffing breakdown, and activity results overview. Suggester: Greg V
- High level report on what we have learned so far about New Readers (Design research + phone surveys portions). Suggester: Adele
- Gender-focused reports, e.g. Inspire Campaign Report on Gender Gap in our movement and attempts to address it. Suggester: Katy
- Anti-harassment work. What we know, how we are planning to address it, etc. Suggester: Adele +1, +1
- Analysis of language use in the projects. Who contributes in their mother tongue, who doesn’t, if they don’t, where do they contribute? As an aside: who speaks more than one language, how much of our "active population" are we reaching when we communicate in English or in some of the major languages? Suggester: Delphine
- Analyze what kind of offline activities do happen, how they’re directly or indirectly related to online activity/activities. (So direct impact on the project vs potential or indirect impact) Suggester: Delphine