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

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