Wikimedia Research/Projects
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[edit]AI as a service
[edit]Revision scoring as a service
A public, query-able APIs of machine classified scores of Wikipedia revisions
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Amir Sarabadani, He7d3r, Yuvipanda
- home:
- m:Research:Revision scoring as a service
- other teams involved:
- Grantmaking, Ops
Automated classification of edit quality
Build edit reviewing and curation capacity with machine classifiers
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Amir Sarabadani, He7d3r, Yuvipanda
- home:
- m:Research:Automated classification of edit quality
- other teams involved:
- Grantmaking, Ops
Automated classification of article quality
Measure the quality of articles. Direct curation work.
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- User:Nettrom
- home:
- m:Research:Automated classification of article quality
- other teams involved:
- Ops
Automated classification of edit types
Measure work types of roles.
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- User:Diyiy, User:DarTar
- home:
- m:Research:Automated classification of edit types
- other teams involved:
- Ops
Discussion modeling
[edit]Detox (Modeling Talk Page Abuse)
Understand and model editor interaction via discussion pages and their impact on culture and contributor retention.
- lead:
- Ellery Wulczyn
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- CJ Adams (Google Ideas), Lucas Dixon (Google Ideas), Patrick Earley (WMF), Haitham Shammaa (WMF), Dario Taraborelli (WMF), Nithum Thain (Simon Fraser University), Camille Francois (Google Ideas)
- home:
- m:R:Detox
- other teams involved:
- CE
Reader research
[edit]Characterizing Wikipedia reader behavior
Identify and characterize different segments in the Wikipedia reader population, by combining qualitative surveys with behavioral analysis based on webrequest data
- lead:
- Leila Zia
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Ellery Wulczyn, Dario Taraborelli, Jonathan Morgan, Robert West (Stanford), Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
- home:
- m:Research:Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Behaviour
- other teams involved:
- Reading, Analytics
Contributor value research
[edit]Who adds value to Wikipedia
Analyze historical data to quantify value added to Wikimedia projects
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- home:
- m:Research:Measuring_value-added
- other teams involved:
- Analytics
Contributor merit experimentation
Design experiments to study how indicators of contributor merit/value added affects their motivation (WikiCredit)
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- home:
- m:Research:WikiCredit
- other teams involved:
- Analytics, Editing
Increasing content coverage
[edit]Article recommendation experiments
Identify gaps in content and design recommendation systems to fill them
- lead:
- Leila Zia
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Ellery Wulczyn, Robert West (Stanford), Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
- home:
- m:Research:Increasing article coverage
- other teams involved:
- Editing (CX), Ops (Labs)
Improving access to content
[edit]Improving access to content
Identify bottlenecks in navigation and design recommendation systems to optimize the reader experience
- lead:
- Leila Zia
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Robert West (Stanford), Ashwin Pradeep Paranjape (Stanford), Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
- home:
- m:Research:Improving link coverage
- other teams involved:
- Reading, Analytics
Research management and collaborations
[edit]Research consulting
Provide ad hoc research support to other teams at WMF
- lead:
- Dario Taraborelli
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- All team members
- other teams involved:
- WMF at large
Research collaborations
Handle external research collaborations, academic/industry outreach effort
- lead:
- Dario Taraborelli
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- All team members
- other teams involved:
- Legal
Research management
Team management-related tasks
- lead:
- Dario Taraborelli
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Abbey Ripstra
Data releases and API prototypes
[edit]Data releases
Release curated datasets; prototype, test, and evaluate new data-intensive APIs
- lead:
- Dario Taraborelli
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- All team members
- other teams involved:
- Legal, Ops (Labs), Analytics
Wikistats maintenance
[edit]Wikistats
Maintain through the end of the calendar year the legacy reporting infrastructure for Wikimedia metrics
- lead:
- Erik Zachte
- team:
- Research and Data
- other teams involved:
- Ops, Analytics
Generative Design Research
[edit]Persona research
Research our users to inform a solid and inclusive set of robust personas. Currently we have "pragmatic personas" which are our best guess at personas reflecting our users from what we know - and being honest about what we do not know. This persona research will allow us to better gain knowledge about the user we do not currently know enough about. File:WMF pragmatic personas product.pdf
- lead:
- Abbey Ripstra
- team:
- Design Research
- other teams involved:
- Communications, Audience teams, Community Engagement
Support product teams with generative design research
Collaborate with product teams to implement generative design research (for example contextual inquiry, exploratory interviews, design ethnography, card sorts, surveys) within product development.
- lead:
- Abbey Ripstra
- team:
- Design Research
- other teams involved:
- Communications, Audience teams, Community Engagement
Evaluative Design Research
[edit]Support product teams with evaluative design research
Collaborate with product teams to implement evaluative design research (for example usability testing, concept evaluation, rapid iterative testing) within product development.
- lead:
- Abbey Ripstra
- team:
- Design Research
- other teams involved:
- Communications, Audience teams, Community Engagement
Supporting editor workflows
[edit]New editor curation tools experience interviews
Interview active editors who participate in community processes to inform the development of a workflows feature for Flow.
- lead:
- Jonathan Morgan
- team:
- Design Research
- home:
- meta:Research:New editor curation tools experience interviews September_2015
- other teams involved:
- Editing (Collaboration)
Flow workflow interviews
Interview active editors who participate in community processes to inform the development of a workflows feature for Flow.
- lead:
- Jonathan Morgan
- team:
- Design Research
- home:
- Flow/Community_process_workflow_interviews_(June_2015)
- other teams involved:
- Editing (Collaboration)
Completed
[edit]VisualEditor experimentation
[edit]Visual Editor experimentation
Design, implement, and communicate a robust experimental strategy for the Visual Editor rollout
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
- home:
- m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study
- other teams involved:
- Editing (VisualEditor), Analytics
Fundraising research
[edit]Fundraising research
Experimental design and optimization for the online fundraiser.
- lead:
- Ellery Wulczyn
- team:
- Research and Data
- other teams involved:
- Fundraising
Planned
[edit]Contributor routing
[edit]Newcomer motivation prediction
Predict the new contributors' motivation to route them to the appropriate onboarding/socialization flow
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
Editor-role based task routing
Identify roles needed for each article and design an automated recruitment workflow
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
Newcomer onboarding experimentation
Experiment with different onboarding/socialization flows for newbies
- lead:
- Aaron Halfaker
- team:
- Research and Data
On hold
[edit]Data releases and API prototypes
[edit]Geo-aggregation of traffic and contribution data
Design an anonymization/aggregation strategy and release geodumps of traffic and contribution data
- lead:
- Dario Taraborelli
- team:
- Research and Data
- collaborators:
- Reid Priedhorsky (Los Alamos); Mark Graham (Oxford), Shilad Sen (Macalester)
Evaluative Design Research
[edit](REFLEX)
Benchmarking tasks and workflows that are important for each persona to be able to do. To evaluate the user's experience in completing (or not) those tasks and workflows in production.
- lead:
- Abbey Ripstra
- team:
- Design Research
- other teams involved:
- Audience teams
Generative Design Research
[edit]Deep Dive (Design ethnography / Contextual inquiry)
Gain knowledge about far flung users (informing personas) of wiki projects, their contexts (around knowledge, technology, access) and what they need to be successful in contributing to and gathering knowledge from Wikimedia projects
- lead:
- Abbey Ripstra
- team:
- Design Research
- other teams involved:
- Communications, Audience teams, Community Engagement