T362379 is, among other things, creating an opportunity for us to more deeply understand how people are using Citoid and its role within the broader set of editing experiences, which is precisely what we'd like to use this ticket to do.
Decisions to be made
- 1. Decide – what if any – changes we will make to how the Editing Team/Foundation allocates attention to the maintenance and improvement of Citoid.
Note: see more in Citoid/Executive Updates.
Research questions
Research question | Metric(s) |
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Who uses Citoid? Asked another way: how does Citoid usage vary by experience level and platform? | Of all the edits in the Wikipedia main namespace where Citoid is used, what proportion of these edits were completed by 1) brand new editors, 2) Junior Contributors, 3) Senior Contributors (grouped by platform (mobile / desktop)? NOTE: "use" in this context means someone successfully tapped Insert to add a citation into the article they're editing. |
How heavily do people depend on Citoid to insert citations? | Of all the unreverted new content edits made with VE in the Wikipedia main namespace that add a new reference, what proportion of those edits did people use Citoid to make? What percentage of those edits did people use other means to add references? NOTE: this question, knowingly excludes some edits people might use Citoid to make (e.g. adding a citation without adding any new content). We will broaden our investigation to include edits of this type if/when need be. |
To what extent are people finding success with Citoid? | 1) Of the edits to content in Wikipedia's main namespace that involve someone using Citoid, what percentage of those edits involve people doing the following? i) Successfully/unsuccessfully inserting a reference (grouped by experience level and platform) and ii) Publishing/not publishing an edit with a new reference (grouped by experience level and platform) and 2) Of the times when people open Citoid and do NOT follow through to insert a reference, what reasons explain why this might be the case? //E.g. people abandon the workflow, Citoid failed to generate a citation (automatic-generate-fail), No results were found for the input someone provided (automatic-generate-fail-serch results), Network error while attempting to retrieve the necessary information (automatic-generate-fail-netowrk) |
Curiosities
Work on these questions will only happen if/when we explicitly prioritize them which, as of 7 August 2024, we have not done.
- Of the people for whom Citoid is not able to generate a citation, what proportion of them act on the call-to-aciton T370561 instrumented to add a citation manually?