Re: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday, January 16 at 11:30 AM PST, 19:30 UTC

Hi Janna,

I am forwarding this announcement to the Wikipenia and ENWP mailing lists.
The presentation looks interesting to me.

Do you know which Wikipedia language edition(s) the author studied for this
research?

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 10:49 AM Janna Layton <> wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase, *Understanding participation in Wikipedia*,
> will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 16, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30
> UTC. This presentation is about new editors.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc51jE_KNTc
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
> can also watch our past research showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *Understanding participation in Wikipedia: Studies on the relationship
> between new editors’ motivations and activity*
>
> By Martina Balestra, New York University
>
> Peer production communities like Wikipedia often struggle to retain
> contributors beyond their initial engagement. Theory suggests this may be
> related to their levels of motivation, though prior studies either center
> on contributors’ activity or use cross-sectional survey methods, and
> overlook accompanied changes in motivation. In this talk, I will present a
> series of studies aimed at filling this gap. We begin by looking at how
> Wikipedia editors’ early motivations influence the activities that they
> come to engage in, and how these motivations change over the first three
> months of participation in Wikipedia. We then look at the relationship
> between editing activity and intrinsic motivation specifically over time.
> We find that new editors’ early motivations are predictive of their future
> activity, but that these motivations tend to change with time. Moreover,
> newcomers’ intrinsic motivation is reinforced by the amount of activity
> they engage in over time: editors who had a high level of intrinsic
> motivation entered a virtuous cycle where the more they edited the more
> motivated they became, whereas those who initially had low intrinsic
> motivation entered a vicious cycle. Our findings shed new light on the
> importance of early experiences and reveal that the relationship between
> motivation and activity is more complex than previously understood.
>
> --
> Janna Layton
> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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