Moodbar: Increasing New User Retention in Wikipedia Through Lightweight Socialization
Authors | Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Dario Taraborelli |
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Publication date | 2015 |
DOI | 10.1145/2675133.2675181 |
Links | Original Preprint |
Moodbar: Increasing New User Retention in Wikipedia Through Lightweight Socialization - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Dario Taraborelli.
Overview
Socialization in online communities allows existing members to welcome and recruit newcomers, introduce them to community norms and practices, and sustain their early participation. However, socializing newcomers does not come for free: in large communities, socialization can result in a significant workload for mentors and is hard to scale. In this study authors present results from an experiment that measured the effect of a lightweight socialization tool on the activity and retention of newly registered users attempting to edit for the first time Wikipedia. Wikipedia is struggling with the retention of newcomers and results indicate that a mechanism to elicit lightweight feedback and to provide early mentoring to newcomers improves their chances of becoming long-term contributors.
