Sneha's Dissertation Timeline

Sneha needs to write a prospectus and complete a dissertation in order to graduate from Northwestern. This page contains the project timeline and current to do list.

Outline of Prospectus
The dissertation will consist of three studies:
 * Study 1: The TWA study - this is currently a paper submission to CSCW.
 * Study 2: The Message Walls study - this will use data from wikia wikis that changed user talk pages to message walls, and see if that impacted newcomer retention in any way
 * Study 3: The Edit-a-thon study - this will examine whether 'offline' events such as edit-a-thons contribute to newcomer retention on Wikipedia

Milestones

 * Settle on a committee (and ask them to be on my committee)
 * Complete prospectus
 * Complete study 2
 * Complete study 3
 * Write everything up
 * Defend thesis
 * Profit!

Fall 2016

 * Wednesday, November 16th - final draft of proposal for Study 2
 * Wednesday, November 30th - Study 3 outline and methods
 * Wednesday, December 7th - Study 3 theoretical framing
 * Wednesday, December 14th - Overarching theme, framing for dissertation