Wikimedia Research/Projects

Revision scoring as a service

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: A public, query-able APIs of machine classified scores of Wikipedia revisions
 * WMF collaborations: Grantmaking
 * External collaborations:

Crowdsourced supervised learning of edit quality

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: A generalized framework for enabling Wikipedians to create labeled data. See m:Wiki labels. 
 * WMF collaborations:
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Newcomer motivation prediction

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Predict the new contributors' motivation to route them to the appropriate onboarding/socialization flow
 * WMF collaborations:
 * External collaborations:

Editor-role based task routing

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Identify roles needed for each article and design an automated recruitment workflow
 * WMF collaborations:
 * External collaborations:

Visual Editor experimentation

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Design, implement, and communicate a robust experimental strategy for the Visual Editor rollout
 * WMF collaborations: Editing team
 * External collaborations:

Who adds value to Wikipedia

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Analyze historical data to quantify value added to Wikimedia projects
 * WMF collaborations: Analytics Dev
 * External collaborations:

Contributor merit experimentation

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Design experiments to study how indicators of contributor merit/value added affects their motivation (WikiCredit)
 * WMF collaborations:
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Fundraising research

 * Lead: Ellery Wulczyn
 * Goal: Design and improve the experimental methodology for the online fundraiser
 * WMF collaborations: Fundraising
 * External collaborations:

Increasing article coverage

 * Lead: Leila Zia
 * Goal: Identify gaps in content and design recommendation systems to fill them
 * WMF collaborations: Editing team (CX)
 * External collaborations: Bob West (Stanford)

Improving access to content

 * Lead: Leila Zia
 * Goal: Identify bottlenecks in navigation and design recommendation systems to optimize the reader experience
 * WMF collaborations:
 * External collaborations: Bob West (Stanford)

Wikistats maintenance

 * Lead: Erik Zachte
 * Goal: Maintain through the end of the calendar year the legacy reporting infrastructure for Wikimedia metrics
 * WMF collaborations: Analytics Dev
 * External collaborations:

Research collaboration management

 * Lead: Dario Taraborelli
 * Goal: Handle external research collaborations, academic outreach effort, incoming research requests
 * WMF collaborations: Legal
 * External collaborations:

Data releases and API prototypes

 * Lead: Dario Taraborelli
 * Goal: Handle the release of curated datasets and work with engineers on spinning up new APIs (except when already covered under different projects)
 * WMF collaborations: Legal; Analytics Dev
 * External collaborations:

Geo-aggregation of traffic and contribution data

 * Lead: Dario Taraborelli
 * Goal: Design an anonymization/aggregation strategy and release geodumps of traffic and contribution data
 * WMF collaborations:
 * External collaborations: Reid Priedhorsky (Los Alamos); Mark Graham (Oxford), Shilad Sen (Macalester)

Newcomer onboarding experimentation

 * Lead: Aaron Halfaker
 * Goal: Experiment with different onboarding/socialization flows for newbies
 * WMF collaborations:
 * External collaborations: Reid Priedhorsky (Los Alamos); Mark Graham (Oxford), Shilad Sen (Macalester)