User:Guillaume (WMF)/Dynamics of Wikimedia systems
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Context[edit]
Historical background:
- 2010 strategy process
- Editor Trends Study (talk page)
- Interface and tools for community health
- Openness and Participation
- strategy:Top risks 2009
- strategy:Former Contributors Survey Results
- strategy:Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities#Increase_participation, strategy:Attracting and retaining participants
- strategy:Product Whitepaper
- strategy:March 2011 Update
- 2011-04-08: foundation:Resolution:Openness
- Research:The Rise and Decline
- E3, Growth
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Why do editors leave Wikipedia? Howie Fung, Wikimania 2010, 2010-07-10 -
Attrition Pipeline: Impediments to editing at each stage of the editor life-cycle. Wikimedia Foundation staff, 2011-03-17. (source) -
Decline Theories And Support. Wikimedia Foundation staff, 2011-03-17. (source) -
The user lifecycle. In Editor Engagement Experiments: Quarterly Review, January-March 2013. Steven Walling, 2013-04-12 -
Summary: Forces that Shaped English Wikipedia (Hypergrowth phase). In Wikimedia Foundation Product Strategy Offsite: Background materials. Howie Fung, 2013-07-22 -
Edit & Reversions: Current Feedback Loop. In Wikimedia Foundation Product Strategy Offsite: Background materials. Howie Fung, 2013-07-22 -
“Career Path” of a Wikipedian. In Wikimedia Foundation Product Strategy Offsite: Background materials. Howie Fung, 2013-07-22 -
Decline is offset by growth. In Wikimedia Foundation Product Strategy Offsite: Background materials. Howie Fung, 2013-07-22 -
Aaron Halfaker, Research showcase, 2014-03-19 -
Wikipedia as a socio-technical system. Aaron Halfaker, Research showcase, 2014-10-15 -
A call for Open Collaboration Systems Theory. Aaron Halfaker, CSCW'15, 2015-03-14 -
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Anon productivity and productive efficiency in English Wikipedia. Aaron Halfaker, Research showcase, 2016-01-20 -
More recently:
Problem articulation[edit]
Purpose[edit]
- Until now, focus mostly on unidirectional "pipelines" and "life cycles"
- Until now, focus mostly on the English Wikipedia
- Take a step back to get a more global view
- Reframe issues in terms of interdependent systems with feedback loops
- Looking at the system avoids blaming the agents, whose actions are mostly guided by the structure of the system.
- Building conceptual maps (or models) collaboratively contributes to changing mental models, and therefore behaviors.
Key variables[edit]
Time horizon[edit]
- backward boundary: start of WIkipedia (2001) or Nupedia (1999)
- forward boundary: ~2050, i.e. roughly 3 times the time elapsed since the creation of Wikipedia
Reference modes[edit]
Dynamic hypothesis[edit]
Current theories[edit]
Hypothesis[edit]
Boundaries[edit]
Subsystems[edit]
- life cycle of contributors
- life cycle of articles
- unproductive contributions
Other possible subsystems:
- social norms
- coordination and life cycle of groups
Subsystem: Life cycle of contributors[edit]
Life cycle of contributors: Problem articulation[edit]
- Purpose
- Key variables
- Time horizon
- Reference modes
Life cycle of contributors: Dynamic hypothesis[edit]
- Current theories
- Hypothesis
- Boundaries
Life cycle of contributors: Model[edit]
- Causal loop diagram
- Stock and flow map
Subsystem: Life cycle of articles[edit]
Life cycle of articles: Problem articulation[edit]
- Purpose
- Key variables
- Time horizon
- Reference modes
Life cycle of articles: Dynamic hypothesis[edit]
- Current theories
- Hypothesis
- Boundaries
Life cycle of articles: Model[edit]
- Causal loop diagram
- Stock and flow map
Subsystem: Unproductive contributions[edit]
Unproductive contributions: Problem articulation[edit]
- Purpose
- Key variables
- Time horizon
- Reference modes
Unproductive contributions: Dynamic hypothesis[edit]
- Current theories
- Hypothesis
- Boundaries
Unproductive contributions: Model[edit]
- Causal loop diagram
- Stock and flow map
Integrated model[edit]
- Causal loop diagram
- Stock and flow map
Staging area[edit]
