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Revision as of 15:49, 24 June 2016
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
Timeline
Summer 2016
- ASAP
- Finalize committee members and ask them to be on my committee
- Specifically ask around about our top choice for the fourth committee member who may not yet be publicly named
- Obtain message wall data set
- Finalize committee members and ask them to be on my committee
- Friday, July 15th
- Complete a detailed proposal for study 2
- Friday, August 12th
- Complete a detailed proposal for study 3
- Thursday, August 25th
- Complete a full draft of prospectus, and send it to Aaron for comments
- Thursday, September 8th
- Make revisions and send out the draft to entire committee
