The Wikipedia Adventure

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Project page for The Wikipedia Adventure paper co-authored by Sneha Narayan, Jake Orlowitz, Jonathan Morgan, Mako Hill, and Aaron Shaw.


Current Status

We are in the process of revising this for submission to CSCW 2017. The timeline and milestones for submission are living on this page (below).

Resources

  • We're writing on sharelatex. The project lives here.
  • Bibliography is currently stored in a shared zotero directory. Aaron and Mako can share access if needed.


Current TO DO list

  • Revise introduction to focus on two study framing
    • Incorporate idea that large scale field testing is important
      • challenges of deploying new systems in a massive community with passionate, experienced members
      • large-scale user survey and invitation-based field experiment under realistic conditions provide more useful evidence (than hallway testing or small-scale usability studies).
  • Fill in section about "Why Gamify Being a Wikipedian?"
  • Refine prior work section on gamification
  • Incorporate UIST model paper system evaluation stuff suggested by Mako
    • Use Webstrates paper (UIST 2015) as a model.
  • Refine organization of Study 1 findings (sn)
  • Refine Study 2 Discussion (Jmo)
    • Explain why TWA didn't alter behavior
  • Add overarching discussion & conclusion sections (sn, jm)
    • Make sure to address big contributions
  • Analyze differential attrition in Study 2 (sn)
    • Table showing dropoff at different levels in results
    • Add discussion of this piece
  • Redo bar chart graphics
  • Add citations currently in text

Timeline for CSCW 2017 submission

Thursday, May 19th

  • redo survey bar charts and graphics
  • get citations working
  • build up a prior work section gamified tutorials

Friday, May 20th

  • read it a hundred times, make sure the title works

Friday, May 27th

  • submit final version! (though earlier is better)