User:Amyxz

I'm Amy, a Cognitive Science student at Carnegie Mellon University who is interested in learning about Wikipedia itself as the collaborative work of many individuals, as facilitated by technology. I'm currently a social computing research assistant working on a experiment that is still in the works.

When I'm not in class and doing homework, I work as tech support, ballroom/latin/salsa dance, volunteer on various school committees, do some middle school tutoring, and hang out with friends. Sleep is a rare occurrence.

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns you would like to share with me, please feel free to send me a message!

Amy Z 03:29, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Research On Wikipedia
We have concluded the project described below, and have submitted a paper to CHI 2013. When I have further details, I'll post them here! Thank you everyone who participated and whose advice made this project possible. - I am a research assistant at the social computing lab of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This research is headed by Professors Robert E. Kraut and Niki Kittur, who conduct research on how Wikipedia operates and what makes it successful. We are conducting a study on the effects of feedback in Wikipedia, with the goal of finding ways to increase the quantity and quality of contributions to Wikipedia. To this end, I've been reading newly created articles to see what type of feedback they deserve. Sometimes I patrol it and give no feedback. Other times, I will be posting messages to user talk pages signed with my username.

Should you feel uncomfortable being part of our experiment, send me a note on my talk page to let me know that you don’t want any additional communication with us—-we will not have any more communication with you, and will discard any data from you as well.

In order to confirm that our research will not raise any ethical concerns, we have submitted our research proposals to the Village Pump and to the Wikipedia Foundation to seek feedback and approval from the Wikipedia Research Committee. Our proposal has received approval from the Research Committee. Furthermore, the Carnegie Mellon IRB has approved this study.

If you have any additional questions, comments, or concerns, leave me a note on my talk page, or you can contact me or Professor E. Kraut via email:

Amy Zhang        amyz@cs.cmu.edu

Dr. Robert Kraut robert.kraut@cmu.edu

Thanks and I hope you have a wonderful day!