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**Please provide all the following information:** * **Context.** Provide a short paragraph with some background context for your request, please include links to relevant material. For the research team to be able to provide observations and inferences about reasonable content growth in x set of wikis (as defined [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | here ]]), a set of certain definitions has been proposed to be needed before this work kicks off. * **Description.***What is your request about? - Provide a set of definitions for the research request on [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | observations and inferences about reasonable content growth and slow content growth in x set of wikis ]] **Scope** - Wikipedias - Set of languages (to be determined) - The focus is on research definitions - //To be added as relevant// **Draft deliverables(s)** - A set of definitions; what is reasonable content growth? what is slow content growth? (any other additional questions) * **Priority** Please indicate a priority of your task and a small description of what it would unlock for you. We ask you to leave this task as “needs triage” since your request will go through a Backlog refinement process where our team will prioritize the work. High. This work is needed as a prerequisite for [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | this research request ]]. Ideally, it would be great if this work can be prioritized for Q4 . I need this task resolved in: [ ] 1 month. [x] 3 months. [ ] 6 months. [ ] Whenever you get to it :-) * **Other.** Do you have any other questions or comments ? ---------------- **For use by WMF Research team; please leave everything below as it is:** 1. Does the request serve one of the existing Research team's audiences? If yes, choose the primary audience. (1 of 4) Yes. WMF 2. What is the type of work requested? insights and recommendations for decision making 3. What is the impact of responding to this request? [x] Support a technology or policy need of one or more WM projects [] Advance the understanding of the WM projects. [] Something else. If you choose this option, please explain briefly the impact below.

**Please provide all the following information:** * **Context.** Provide a short paragraph with some background context for your request, please include links to relevant material. For the research team to be able to provide observations and inferences about reasonable content growth in x set of wikis (as defined [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | here ]]), a set of certain definitions has been proposed to be needed before this work kicks off. * **Description.***What is your request about? - Provide a set of definitions for the research request on [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | observations and inferences about reasonable content growth and slow content growth in x set of wikis ]] **Scope** - Wikipedias - Set of languages (to be determined) - The focus is on research definitions - //To be added as relevant// **Draft deliverables(s)** - A set of definitions; what is reasonable content growth? what is slow content growth? what is sustainability of a wiki? (any other additional questions) * **Priority** Please indicate a priority of your task and a small description of what it would unlock for you. We ask you to leave this task as “needs triage” since your request will go through a Backlog refinement process where our team will prioritize the work. High. This work is needed as a prerequisite for [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | this research request ]]. Ideally, it would be great if this work can be prioritized for Q4 . I need this task resolved in: [ ] 1 month. [x] 3 months. [ ] 6 months. [ ] Whenever you get to it :-) * **Other.** Do you have any other questions or comments ? Apart from the research request, broadly highlighting that there is no standardized definition for sustained growth of a wiki either in terms of content growth, contribution or readership. Having the research team begin working on this area would be meaningful. ---------------- **For use by WMF Research team; please leave everything below as it is:** 1. Does the request serve one of the existing Research team's audiences? If yes, choose the primary audience. (1 of 4) Yes. WMF 2. What is the type of work requested? insights and recommendations for decision making 3. What is the impact of responding to this request? [x] Support a technology or policy need of one or more WM projects [] Advance the understanding of the WM projects. [] Something else. If you choose this option, please explain briefly the impact below.

**Please provide all the following information:** * **Context.** Provide a short paragraph with some background context for your request, please include links to relevant material. For the research team to be able to provide observations and inferences about reasonable content growth in x set of wikis (as defined [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | here ]]), a set of certain definitions has been proposed to be needed before this work kicks off. * **Description.***What is your request about? - Provide a set of definitions for the research request on [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | observations and inferences about reasonable content growth and slow content growth in x set of wikis ]] **Scope** - Wikipedias - Set of languages (to be determined) - The focus is on research definitions - //To be added as relevant// **Draft deliverables(s)** - A set of definitions; what is reasonable content growth? what is slow content growth? what is sustainability of a wiki? (any other additional questions) * **Priority** Please indicate a priority of your task and a small description of what it would unlock for you. We ask you to leave this task as “needs triage” since your request will go through a Backlog refinement process where our team will prioritize the work. High. This work is needed as a prerequisite for [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381903 | this research request ]]. Ideally, it would be great if this work can be prioritized for Q4 . I need this task resolved in: [ ] 1 month. [x] 3 months. [ ] 6 months. [ ] Whenever you get to it :-) * **Other.** Do you have any other questions or comments ? Apart from the research request, broadly highlighting that there is no standardized definition for sustained growth of a wiki either in terms of content growth, contribution or readership. Having the research team begin working on this area would be meaningful. ---------------- **For use by WMF Research team; please leave everything below as it is:** 1. Does the request serve one of the existing Research team's audiences? If yes, choose the primary audience. (1 of 4) Yes. WMF 2. What is the type of work requested? insights and recommendations for decision making 3. What is the impact of responding to this request? [x] Support a technology or policy need of one or more WM projects [] Advance the understanding of the WM projects. [] Something else. If you choose this option, please explain briefly the impact below.