Help:Researcher

This is a help page for researchers of Wikimedia wikis' content, users and their socio-technical implications.

There are some concrete steps researchers can take to help others (researchers and editors alike) and themselves:

1. Announce their research projects/ideas/outcomes in Research:Index. (It's like saying hello.)
2. Write/contribute to Research:Newsletter to introduce others to the latest and/or relevant research. (It's like doing literature review. See more here)
3. Find/read/contribute a research concept/topic such as Research:Editor_retention. (It's like writing conceptual framework.)
4. Discuss research ideas with the Wikimedia research team members. (It's like talking to fellow researchers who happen to be embedded into the Wikimedia Foundation.) By doing so, researchers can better
   • Get editors to paritcipate in their research (survey, interviews, panels, or experiments)
   • Get data to analyze for their research

Guides: meta

The following guides point to relevant pages inside the meta name space.

• For research exploration and declaration, see Research:Index,
• For a research topic, please
  • Browse through existing Category:Research_concepts or search for topics.
  • Create topic pages such as Research:Editor_retention
• For metrics (numbers, indicators, or analytics), please browse or create in Category:Metrics.
• For the latest research reviewed by the members of both editor and researcher community, please read/subscribe Research:Newsletter
• For announcing or discussing a certain research idea or event, please have a look at the example of Research:CSCW15_workshop
• For everything or anything inside the meta name space, please browse or search through All pages (Meta namespace).