Wikimedia Research/Office hours

The Research team at Wikimedia Foundation holds office hours (see below for exact date and time), which you can join via video call.

The aim is to make ourselves more available to answer research questions that you as Wikimedia volunteers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives, and to connect, share, and learn from each other.

Come and talk to us about anything related to Wiki-research. Bring your questions and ideas to discuss projects, data, analysis, etc. For example:
 * You want to learn more about our team and our projects
 * You would like to share some research project or idea and would like to get feedback or support
 * You have questions about how to use specific datasets

After initiating office hours in January 2020, we switched to monthly group video calls to facilitate more direct interaction. We paused Office Hours from July - December, 2022 to focus on new initiatives, such as the Research Fund and the development of a research course on WikiLearn. Office Hours are returning in January 2023 with a new format consisting of individual consultations (see below). We piloted this format earlier in 2022 for attendees of Wiki Workshop as well as Research Fund applicants. We will evaluate the success of this approach in mid-2023.

Schedule
We invite you to schedule individual consultation sessions with a member of the Research team. Please note that scheduling requires you to use services independent from the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information on usage policies of Google Calendar, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy. When scheduling your appointment, please provide a description of the topic or question that you wish to discuss.

Office Hours Notes
In order to keep track of the various discussions conducted during office hours, we have started an Etherpad that will allow team members and attendees to take notes of their discussions. This is meant to serve as a valuable resource for anyone seeking information on topics and questions addressed by the research team.

WMF Research Office Hours Etherpad

Additional information
Announcements will be made over the following places, so subscribe to them if you want to receive the latest updates:
 * wiki-research-l mailing list
 * analytics mailing list
 * wikidata mailing list
 * wikimedia-l mailing list

For specific questions related to Wikidata, see also the online office hours over at Wikidata.

If you have further questions, comments, or suggestions, please leave a comment on the talk-page.

Past events
Between January 2020 and July 2022, we organized almost 30 public office hours where multiple people could join the call at once. We have changed the format of the office hours to one-on-one since. However, if you want to learn more about topics covered in those early days of our office hours, you can do so at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours.