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List Generation User Research
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Task: Find motivations, activities and problems of people who generate lists for Wikipedia in order to find out how we can support this work with Wikidata.

Method: Interviews, semi structured

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I am such a wiki editor who adds and maintains lists.

In particular, I add lists of embassies to Wikivoyage articles.
Example: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Karachi#Consulates

Motivation: For any traveller to that particular city, make it easy to contact her/his embassy/consulate when the need arises
Activities: Update phone number/address/etc of each embassy or consulate. Add new ones when we learn about them.
Problems: It's a rather boring task. A lot of details are out-of-date. Our efforts on the English Wikivoyage do not benefit our sister Wikivoyages in other languages.