Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Badges/timeline
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6 month pilot:
- Stage 1, 6 weeks (Oct- beginning of Nov)
Research and preparation:
- Look through past metrics, interviews, and other research to better understand participant motivations and goals on the project
- Evaluate other award systems
- Survey participants to gain a baseline measurement for perceived levels of engagement and interest
- Create a testing framework
- Create a space to document project progress and findings (develop this page)
- Explore opportunities for automation (bot, WikiLove, userscript)
- Outline a badge delivery mechanism
- Research the conceptual framework behind badges
- Outline a research plan
Brainstorming and community engagement:
- Engage community and project leaders in brainstorming potential badges for a badge collection.
- Brainstorm designs for how badges should be presented to participants
- Ask community members to provide ideas for badges
- Stage 2, Build. 2 weeks, (Late Nov)
- Build badges and any associated pages
- Create any related scripts to enable badge awarding (WikiLove, common.js install script)
- Finalize research protocol
- Stage 3, Pilot #1, staggered with Pilot #2. 8 weeks, (Dec, Jan, early Feb because of Dec holidays)
- Recruit select participants to start awarding badges on a consistent basis
- Monitor badge awarding; tweak where necessary
- Stage 4, Pilot #2 completion, Measurement and reporting. 6 weeks (Feb/March)
- Interview and survey participants
- Collect and analyze final quantitative metrics
- Synthesize and report findings and best practices