Learning patterns/Analysing effects of offline meetups
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Analysing effects of offline meetups
problemOffline face-to-face meetings are an important part of the Wikimedia community. However, there are only few systematic assessments of their effects of such meetings on online behaviour.
solutionAfter collecting meetup data, meetup attendees and a control group of non-attending users can be compared in different regards using statistical methods.
creator• ASociologist
created on14:51, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
status:DRAFT
What problem does this solve?
Offline face-to-face meetings are an important part of the Wikimedia community. However, there are only few systematic assessments of their effects of such meeting on online behaviour as it can be difficult to obtain the meeting data. Once collected, statistical methods can be used to assess whether the offline meetups have an effect on the online behaviour of Wikipedians. In this learning pattern, I want to highlight some methods how the meeting data can be analysed, and discuss problems and limitations which must be kept in mind when working with meetup data.
What is the solution?
To be continued