Wikimedia Research/Goals/DRFY17Q3

Goal setting process owner: Abbey Ripstra [ Wikimedia Research goals overview ]

Objective Key result Dependency ETA Status
FOCUS

Generative research

New Readers next steps
  • Evaluative research in country for offline concepts
  • Concept generation and evaluation of affordability findings
  • Consultations with Comms on awareness findings

Audience project

  • Collaborate on next steps
  • New Readers teams
EOQ Yes Done
STRENGTHEN

Participant outreach

  • Add 1,000 new participants to the Design Research database
  • Leverage WMF social media accounts
  • Start a physical campaign
  • Communications
  • Design researchers (Product)
EOQ In progress In progress
FOCUS

Understanding editing culture

  • Document content curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons to inform development micro-contribution features T152248
  • Perform and publish analysis of the quality of new editor support provided at Wikipedia Teahouse T132809
  • Perform and publish expanded analysis of the impact of Teahouse on new editor retention T127523
  • Research and Data
EOQ In progress In progress
EXPERIMENT

Recommender Evaluation

  • Develop and pilot a methodology for comparative evaluation of search/recommendation algorithms
  • RelatedPages study plan T142009
  • Dev Summit proposal T149373
  • Research and Data
  • Reading
EOQ In progress In progress