User:Renklauf/WikiSym Presentation

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Outline[edit]

  • Introduce the problem of warning templates on Wikipedia
  • Editor Decline, co-occurrence with the rise of warning templates
  • Define why this is an important feature of wikis and collaborative systems in general and large scale communities
  • What is our goal, what do we set out to prove?
  • The editor decline problem
  • Making Wikipedia a more welcoming environment for new editors
  • Describe vandalism, vandal reversion, and vandal fighting tools
  • List some of the statistics regarding new editors (daily volume, those that go on to make at least one edit, those that go on to make more than five edits)
  • 4K new accounts per day
  • 1K go on to make at least one edit
  • Percentage of warning templates delivered by semi-automated tools and bots ... fraction delivered by Huggle
  • Walk through our approach to the problem and what we wanted to test
  • State our research questions and hypothesis
  • Define the tests that we executed including a clear description of the control and test groups in each, along with the effect we hoped to measure
  • Demo what a user sees when being warned by Huggle - define warning levels
  • Describe how the three day measurement period following the template was chosen
  • How we bucketed new users
  • Describe the Methodology
  • how we filtered users
  • use of the revision table and the mediawiki API to track users contacted via huggle
  • Regression models used - emphasize that t-tests may have also been useful and appropriate for this problem
  • describe the variables in the model and the significance of the results
  • Results and Discussion
  • State the findings with respect to the research questions
  • Discuss the implications of this (friendlier templates, the types of editors to target, future experiments, it would be worth mentioning E3 and how we approach this work at WMF)
  • Actionability, what can have we done to act on these findings to improve new editor engagement on Wikipedia