weekly updates:

• started reaching out to stakeholders of reader research in other teams as well as external researchers
• set up regular meeting with @MRaishWMF and @YLiou_WMF for coordination of different research threads within the Research team

Weekly updates:

• ongoing discussions with members of the team, researchers, and folks from other teams (e.g. Product, most notably the Reader-related teams).
• trying to identify major themes in ongoing efforts as well as open questions. For example, a recurring open question was about better understanding if and how readers progress (i.e. "reader funnel")
• Next step: synthesize themes and present initial ideas in Applied Science meeting on August 11

weekly updates:

• continued some discussions with researchers.
• drafted a first rough outline of the research direction. Specifically, I synthesized the wide range of potential research questions into 5 main themes to provide a framework about what is important and why.
• put together a presentation for next week's applied research team meeting to gather feedback.

weekly update:

• gave presentation of early ideas in Applied Research meeting
• gathering feedback from individual folks
• next step: refine and iterate into a draft

weekly update:

• not a lot of upate as I am gathering feedback
• planning on working on a full iteration next week

weekly update:

• re-organized the skeleton with outline of the doc
• Pulled together main talking points for each section
• Next steps: write up first bad version of the doc and share with @YLiou_WMF and @MRaishWMF for feedback

weekly update:

• wrote a first rough (and partially incomplete) draft
• shared with @YLiou_WMF and @MRaishWMF for early feedback
• no update next week as I am OoO after that will continue to complete the first rough draft

weekly update:

• no update this week because I spent most of my available time this week on the presentation for the research showcase next week

weekly update:

• due to showcase presentation not a lot of progress (as part of that moved due date to October)
• the showcase presentation was a good opportunity to get some feedback about ideas on future research areas in this space. Most notably, we identified 5 areas: readership progression (e.g. reader to editor conversion), improving discoverability (e.g. search), identification of bot traffic, Wikipedia's role in the rapidly changing online ecosytem( e.g. impact of LLMs/chatbots on Wikipedia), identifying drivers of change in readership (e.g. causes of knowledge gaps or effectiveness of potential interventions). note: this is not exhaustive and also not finalized.

weekly update:

• no updates, mostly worked on OKR-work for WE3.1.7 (T404848)

weekly update:

• continued writing and updated some of the content to incorporate learnings from showcase presentation
• however, I didnt get very far as I was asked mid-week to dedicate capacity to another urgent, short-term request.

weekly update:

• no update as I didnt manage to dedicate time this week to this project.

weekly update:

• no update as I didnt manage to dedicate time this week to this project.

weekly update:

• managed to pick this up again this week and made some minor progress in writing up the existing bullet points

weekly update:

• fully re-organized the outline: 3 major themes (participation, interaction with content, data&methodology). Each theme contains detailed description of what we learned so far and proposes 3 sub-themes.
• finished first full write-up. need one more iteration to polish before I will share with others for feedback.

weekly update:

• finished a full first draft. available in this doc (internal only)
• currently shared with research-folks active in reader space for feedback and improvement

weekly update:

• revising the draft based on feedback I received. I think that I will have a revised version ready by the end of next week.

weekly update

• incorporated feedback from Debra, Mike, and Yu-Ming
• finalized new revised version available in this doc (internal)