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* Study 1: [[The Wikipedia Adventure|The TWA study]] - this is currently a paper submission to CSCW.
* Study 1: [[The Wikipedia Adventure|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 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 Bike Co-op study - this will be a needs assessment of a bike-co-op's onboarding process
* 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==
==Milestones==
*Complete Study 3
*Settle on a committee (and ask them to be on my committee)
*Revise introduction/conclusion
*Complete prospectus
*Send out work/pieces for feedback
*Complete study 2
*Act on feedback
*Complete study 3
*Defend dissertation
*Write everything up
*Submit with revisions
*Defend thesis
*Profit!
*Profit!


==Timeline==
==Timeline==


===Fall 2018===
===Summer 2016===
*Friday, October 5th - share draft of Study 3 for feedback
*'''ASAP'''
*Friday, October 12th - share draft of introduction/conclusion with Aaron
**Finalize committee members and ask them to be on my committee
*Monday, October 15th - one week before defense date - work on revisions
*** Specifically ask around about our top choice for the fourth committee member who may not yet be publicly named
*Week of 29th/Week of 5th - schedule defense
** Obtain message wall data set
*End of November/before Dec 1st - make revisions and submit final version
*'''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
 
===Fall 2016===
* '''Thursday, October 13th'''
** Send out FINAL draft of prospectus to committee
* '''late-October/early-November'''
** Set up a meeting with committee members to defend prospectus
 
===Winter 2016===
* Work on message walls study
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