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=== October 29 (Thu): Newcomers === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33204788/download?download_frd=1 Week 5 Reading Note] (Requires UWs Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33322441/download?download_frd=1 Slides from Jonathan Morgan] (Requires UW Access) Today we'll be visited by [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Jtmorgan Jonathan Morgan], an expert on newcomers in Wikipedia, a PhD graduate from UW, currently an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and the first author of the paper we'll be reading as our case today. I will be out of town today so the content of the class will be left up to Jonathan. '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 5, pg 205-223 * [Case] Morgan et al., "Tea and sympathy: crafting positive new user experiences on Wikipedia" Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '13), Pages 839-848, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2013. [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2441871 Official Link (Available through UW libraries)]] [[http://jtmorgan.net/jtmorgan/files/morgan_cscw2013_final.pdf Author's Website (Free Online)]] * [Case] Visit '''the Teahouse'' on Wikipedia. In particular, spend time on these three pages and associated sub-questions: ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions Teahouse questions forum]: What do the questions here tell you about the kinds of challenges that new editors face? How does this jibe with your own experience as a new Wikipedian? ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts Teahouse host profiles]: What do the profiles on this page tell you about the demographics and motivations of Teahouse Hosts? Does anything about the Teahouse host characteristics and motivations you read in these profiles surprise you? Why or why not? ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests Teahouse guest profiles] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guest_book Guest book]: What do the profiles on this page tell you about the demographics and motivations of Teahouse visitors? Does anything about the Teahouse guest characteristics and motivations you read in these profiles surprise you? Why or why not?
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