User talk:EpochFail/Snuggle article
- Say something about this series in the signpost and something about going first.
- Snuggle is interesting
- Research shows that
- Wikipedia is suffering from a newcomer retention problem [EditorTrends, suh09singularity]
- At least part of the reason is the negative environment these newcomers experience [halfaker11bite, halfaker12rise]
- Current mentoring systems are ineffective (study took place before the Teahouse) [musicant11clash]
- So how do we fix this
- I suspect that part of the problem is how hidden these desirable newcomers are
- So I built a system to sort new newcomers by their desirability that juxtaposes their contributions and the activitiy on their talk page.
- So how does it work?
- Snuggle has two primary components.
- A server-side component that listens to the stream of recent changes to build statistics of new editor's activities
- A browser-based web application that visualizes the activities of newcomers.
- In this section, I'll discuss the user interface you'll see.
- Snuggle maintains a list of ~6000 newly registered accounts and their first 30 days of activity.
- Using the interface, you'll be able to filter and sort these newcomers by their activities in Wikipedia
- Using snuggle, you can manually classify newcomers into good-faith and bad-faith categories.
- Wikipedian mentors (e.g. Teahouse) can use the good-faith list to send out invitations and offer support.
- If there's demand for it, I can add functionality to report the bad-faith users to the WP:AIV.
- How to get involved
- Currently the system supports the minimal amount of features.
- I need your help to prioritize new features and to make sure the system is actually usable.
- You can help me out by:
- Joining me in an IRC demo & feedback session
- Signing up to receive notification of new developments
- Submitting bugs and feature requests.
- Thanks!
