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
- Define Vandalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism)
- Define the principal of assumed good faith
- 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