(((re-sending, hopefully it will arrive now))) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want to take part? To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
Hi, sorry for cross-replying. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research >> "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] >> So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE >> will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and >> there is still some possibility for other large FOSS projects to join. >> >> I think it could fit nicely into our recent efforts directed >> at newcomer experience after Git migration. And MediaWiki is >> a bit different than above projects. >> >> Are we interested >> to include MediaWiki in that research? >> >> As Kevin explains in his post he tried to avoid spamming mailing >> lists to look for project interested, so I am doing this for him :-) >> >> //Saper > > I've worked with Kevin in preparation for his survey and later > promotion from the KDE-side quite a bit. This is not the kind of > research project that is of no value to the project taking part. I > expect the results to be very useful for KDE (and likely also the > other projects taking part). It turns out that Sumana and me have been in touch with Kevin in the past days after Asheesh Laroia proposed directly to include Wikimedia in this research. Said and done, Wikimedia is also included in the survey and you are encouraged to invest some minutes in it: https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151 I will send a proper announcement next Monday, but in the meantime here is an illustrative link of links: http://kevincarillo.org/2012/11/15/survey-update-after-1-week/ -- Quim _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
