• Completed second/follow-up round of interviews with @Isaac's WE1.9.1 cohort on 3/31, wrapping the longitudinal element
• Meeting with Isaac 4/2 to discuss preliminary findings around motivations, challenges, etc
• Amin and I co-presented a continuous research program update at 3/31 Design and Research team meeting
• Bethany and I met with Dovetail, Reduct, and Descript re video clipping and repository options; going through Legal review for our use and will trial once complete

Received update from Daniel that experimentation for container/QS has not been completed yet and that the timeline for completing the deployment, response gathering, and analysis will likely take longer than being able to wrap by end of April; requested experimentation to be completed by EOW if possible. Will inform team about this update and determine next steps.

• Met with Tanja again to discuss specifics about what is technically feasible
• Met with Daniel (contractor with the team) to ascertain what is possible for surveys deployed on special pages
• Next update will be later this week after Daniel has done some exploration into the containers concept (documented by Jon Robson, but not yet implemented)

• Will be sharing week 3 findings this week with stakeholders
• Completed 3 sessions thus far from the round of follow-up interviews
• Meeting with Bethany and rep from Dovetail this week to discuss research finding repository options

• Receiving feedback from Growth team and others on the shareout document!
• Talking through documentation, reference, and shareout options
• Met with Kirsten Stoller, Amin Al Hazwani, and Bethany Gerdemann earlier this week to discuss repository, live observation vs viewing recordings, clip-making tech options, and how best to achieve continuous research program goals
• Met with Isaac Johnson early in the week as well to discuss structure/questions for follow-up sessions beginning this week

Met with @SonjaPerry last week and a follow-up meeting has been scheduled with @TAndic to discuss a survey with some free-form fields in lieu of a full set of watchlist user interviews.

Progress update:

• 5 sessions completed this week and all 3/5 of the timezone-aligned sessions were attended by Growth team members! One more is scheduled in about an hour, which if completed will bring the total sessions this week to 6
• Shareout plan discussed with team + Isaac and shareouts will occur early next week and some synthesis in process
• Bethany has engaged Product Analytics to review the newcomer user query template, which will conclude in 3-4 weeks. We can use this to modify in a modular way future queries so we do not have an ongoing PA dependency
• Week of 3/9 session(s) may be bumped to a week in April, depending on whether a separate project will require my interviewing time/capacity

Conversations with Karolin, Cormac, et al regarding scoping. Decision tree unclear for a period due to the former leaving for sabbatical this week and the latter switching teams. Joy will likely be taking over the element of DR support and Sammy will take over WE1.6.1, with the KR ownership overall still TBD.

Update week before last:

report shared with Ilana and team last week, and all invited to share comments async via doc comment/slack/email. after the APP offsite this week and a first round of review/comment, will likely schedule a Q&A session with team. any significant follow-ups will still be documented here.

continuing to work with the team on specifics on recruitment/survey/database structure, @Isaac on language for a related hypothesis, and legal for privacy policy and release form for use with this program.

final sessions completed last friday and working on the findings report this week.

paper shared with @SonjaPerry, invited to share comments async via doc comment/slack/email, and also scheduled a meeting this week to discuss. any significant follow-ups will still be documented here.

a few more interviews completed this week, one more next week, and hope to have a draft for review at the end of next week per Sonja's request!

about 17 sessions completed and should end with about 23 by the end of next week/this project. the team has received the notes shares and have been invited to view/add access for the session videos. have been doing some initial interview debriefs and will move into analysis and report writing mode in the coming week and the first week of february.

made some updates to the program brief document, and in conversation with Bethany on how best to operationalize and understand capacities/limitations/considerations.

Making progress; spoke with a few digital accessibility folks in the industry/space and hoping to speak with some with backgrounds in the space but in academia. Though secondary goal is ... secondary, getting a read on what our UI toolkit and assorted accessibility handbook/guides in the past have focused on and whether ND/NS was an active consideration.

First (2) scheduled sessions occurred this last week! Update with discussion guide/notes and interview session links sent to Ilana and connection team for visibility and feedback.

Checked in with Ilana yesterday regarding a recruitment update. Ilana let me know that she will update her recognition research questions document with some additional questions relevant to including events/wikiprojects on the newcomer homepage and on-wiki goal setting.

Not much additional updates this week but will be sharing a write-up of the proposed process end of week/early next.

Not much additional updates this week. Did make some contacts with some postgrads who do research on neurodiversity in general and in the workplace; hoping to have some conversations with them soon.

Outreach to participants ongoing this week.

Reviewed existing documentation from Amin and held a meeting 11/25 discussing

• desired outcomes/strategic impact
• ways to frame and structure the experiments to minimize potential pushbacks and risks
• potential candidates for initial pilot runs

Casting a wide net - reviewing accessibility best practices on the internet/web, websites with accessibility features, outreach to accessibility/disability experts on LinkedIn and elsewhere.

Confirmed with Ilana about participant cohorts (language wikis, edit counts and frequency, and backup wikis). We may need to adjust language wikis further based on how many results fit the criteria. Working with Irene/Megan this week to unblock this hopefully before the holiday weekend.

thank you @ifried! i will be in touch this week with an update from my conversations.

Shareout to the team completed on Oct 29.

Shareout to the team completed on Oct 22.

final report completed and shared last week and will schedule a follow-up Q&A session with the team soon.

final report completed and shared last week and will schedule a follow-up Q&A session with the team soon.

checked in with Kirsten; confirmed okay to complete some remaining report clean-up and content rearranging into 10/1.

checked in with Peter; confirmed okay to complete some remaining report clean-up and content rearranging into 10/1.

completing analysis/synthesis this week and working on final report.

completing analysis/synthesis this week and working on final report.

9 sessions completed! beginning analysis/synthesis this week.

10 sessions completed! beginning analysis/synthesis this week.

6 sessions completed. anticipating 3 more this week to conclude. please feel free to view any of interest on my calendar event attachments.

8 sessions completed. anticipating 2 more this week to conclude. please feel free to view any of interest on my calendar event attachments.

first sessions completed and additional sessions occurring this week and next. if desired, please view via my calendar events!

first sessions completed and additional sessions occurring this week and next. if desired, please view via my calendar events!

hoping to schedule sessions soon, and continuing to send out recruitment outreach.

hoping to schedule sessions soon, and continuing to send out recruitment outreach in batches. received updated prototypes from Barbara. light lit review still in progress and hope to wrap this week.

additional recruitment occurring this week with a finalized list from analytics. attending meeting with ambassadors (most will be in attendance after wikimania/travel) this week to see if there are other means of supplementing recruitment from their perspectives. other project staging logistics ongoing.

additional recruitment occurring this week with a finalized list from analytics. other project staging logistics ongoing.

still waiting on ambassadors' response, but have some preliminary help from analytics; depending on available pool, may need to find ways to widen recruitment. finalizing discussion guide and starting on recruitment outreach this week.

still waiting on ambassadors' response, but have some preliminary help from analytics. finalizing discussion guide and starting on recruitment this week, and reading through more material for literature review.

checked in with Sonja last week to clarify goals/brief details, followed up with team ambassadors/analytics support for recruitment details, received back legal-reviewed privacy policy and release form.

checked in with Sonja last week to clarify goals/brief details, followed up with team ambassadors/analytics support for recruitment details, received back legal-reviewed privacy policy and release form.

Watchlist and Task Prioritization

Shared research brief with team 7/22 and discussion guide is in progress. Pending confirmation on a couple clarifications on targeted wikis and recruitment support.

Met with Kirsten and also Pablo last week to discuss additional specifics and possibilities on the quant side. Received additional follow-up from Amin this week, and shared research brief for feedback 7/22. Have started work on discussion guide in the meantime.

Initial call last week with Peter and Nico, dug into background for the request and what is the core ask wrt actionability. Established that of the expected deliverables, core ask is C), screenshots of likely/potential future checks will be provided for D). Interview discussion guide will address elements A and B wherever possible.

Hoping to connect with both Amin and Kirsten this week before I'm out (will return 7/10) to get clarity on asks.

Sent updates to the team directly in lieu of Phab in the last couple weeks; updates included a week OOO for jury duty, then additional attempts at soliciting follow-up feedback, and a wrap-up and shareout of the report on 6/13.

Concluded interviews last week, and sent out some async follow-ups. Reviewing interview content and awaiting follow-up responses.

Have been conducting joint interviews with Julie in the past week or so.
Iterating a bit on questions asked, and plan for some async follow-up with some PMs and any assigned engineering/analytics team staff.

Met to discuss initial survey results and next steps. Hoping to finalize brief and schedule interviews by early next week.

Final report shared with team.
Research shareout tentatively scheduled for April 29.

as of April 11, met with Virginia and Julie to discuss initial survey questions and potential interview follow-up questions. Survey finalized Friday and Julie sent out via Slack early this week. Meeting scheduled for next Wednesday to discuss preliminary survey responses.

Finalizing the report this upcoming week!

• transcripts reviews mostly completed, synthesis ongoing
• provided some updates to Sam, Jack and Olga in terms of contained items that can tackled this quarter:
  • creating multiple watchlists (to organize topically and/or for prioritization purposes)
  • allowing users to note a 'watched for [reason]' for reference
  • adding an expiration reminder/opportunity for extension on temporarily watched pages

• all interviews have been completed
• review of moderators research and review of other sources continues to determine relevance for inclusion in watchlist reporting
• synthesis of interviews continues; some initial feedback and mentions of existing wishes shared with Sam

• 7 additional interviews completed, 1 of which was with an RO participant. outreach and reminders to RO participants have not been fruitful, and there was an RO no-show this week (have sent reschedule reminders)
• review and synthesis of feedback ongoing

Mar 17 update - provided feedback on final report deck.

weekly update:

Mar 7 update - met with Olga and discussed interview and survey outcomes. sent over collected release forms. will do a review of the final report next week sometime and wrap this ticket.

weekly update:

• research materials and messaging staged
• translations of research materials pending and/or pending review
• first batch of outreach ready to go; per Sam they will go out first thing next week. additional batches every other day
• after translations are completed, that language wiki will receive the outreach all in one blast
• review of Moderators report, and attempting to find any other literature regarding task prioritization in online communities (quite limited thus far)

Feb 25 update - reviewed survey responses. Olga scheduled a meeting to discuss interview results Mar 6.

update for the week: