Lucie: well, that wasn't primarily a study at the time. It was an actual
attempt to teach new users things. But point taken :)
More generally: I think we ('we' = people who run, or want to run,
wikilabelling campaigns) should invest in improving the outreach and
onboarding experience for WikiLabels. We probably need to make some updates
to the WikiLabels portal on wiki, so that it's easier for people who have
never participated in or organized a wikilabels campaign to get up to speed.
For example, Miriam put together a basic information page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements/Labeling_Pilot>
and an (optional) signup page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statements/Labeling_Pilot/Sign_Up>
for our last unsourced statements campaign. The page wasn't fancy, it just
explained what the campaign was for, what to expect as a labeler, and how
to participate. We had a hard time getting a sufficient number of people to
label in our most recent campaign, and I think that's going to continue to
be a problem as more people use the tool--how do we incentivize people to
label, and make it as easy as possible for them?
My proposal is:
1. to have a landing page that we can link people who might participate in
campaigns too (not taking anything away from the current portal, just
creating an alternate entry point that's designed specifically for
end-users)
2. create a mechanism for posting campaign-specific subpages in the
'wikilabels' namespace, so that we can track campaigns transparently,
labelers can have a standard location of providing feedback (a la
"instructions are not clear", or "interface is broken", AND so
individual
campaign organizers can have a canonical URL for their campaign
documentation, a la Meta:Wiki_labels/My_great_campaign. Looks like Aaron et
al. tried to do this on Enwik
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Labels/Campaigns>i in the early
days, but I think everyone should be responsible for their own
documentation.
Does this sound reasonable? Anyone want to work on it with me? Scoring
platform is unlikely to have the bandwidth to do this for us. And we're
going to be relying on this infrastructure more and more.
- J
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 9:01 AM Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There has been research that encourages users to
participate in studies by
posting on their user page [1].
But it might be worth to ask about experiences on Research-l. Let me know
how it goes, I would be very interested in the results, as I am looking
into working on a similar approach!
Best,
Lucie
[1] The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial
for New Users
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2998307
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 14:40, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I suggest that you ask questions about
research Research-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
You could also ask at a relevant English Wikipedia village pump.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:38 PM Maximilian Klein <max(a)notconfusing.com>
wrote:
Hello All,
I have created a new labelling campaign, "Newcomer Session Quality"
which describes observes the *sessions* (temporally related edits) of
users on their *registration day* [1]. The idea is to detect
potentially productive newcomers may be struggling with onboarding and
might otherwise get bitten. I was wondering if there was a standard way to
advertise for volunteers for a new campaign on-wiki? Would it be OK to
leave talk-page invitations to users who have signed up for updates on
other campaigns [2]? By the way, right now the campaign is just in enwiki
for testing, but I have 6 other languages ready to go if enwiki labelling
goes well.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Labels/Newcomer_session_quality
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Labels/Edit_quality
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
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