[Foundation-l] Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior

Thu Apr 14 02:31:15 UTC 2011

Steven Walling wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and_Behavior
>> 
>> Does anyone know what this is? There was some discussion on the talk page,
>> but that's now apparently been cleared away.
> 
> It's a joint study by some researchers from Sciences Po (in Paris) and
> Harvard's Berkman Center. Like most other projects, you can see other
> details at the list of research projects on Meta.[1]
> 
> The basic gist is that they're going to be running a survey for Wikipedians
> as part of their study. Participants will be paid (by the researchers, not
> the WMF) since it's quite a long survey, and there will be an option to
> donate your funds to the Foundation if you like.
> 
> [...]

Ah, thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated. :-)

I put a link to this e-mail and to Meta-Wiki's "Research/Projects" page at
the top of the talk page, so that will hopefully prevent future confusion:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=2496408&oldid=2495842>.

John Vandenberg wrote:
> This was mentioned back in January
> 
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/063703.html

Ah, thanks. I'd had a tab open to remember to look into this and I'd
completely forgotten how I'd come across it initially. I remember first
thinking it was spam, to be honest. (Looking at the page's logs, it seems I
wasn't the only one.) When I went to look at it again today and noticed the
cleared talk page, I figured I'd just ask the list and that someone would
surely know what was going on.

MZMcBride