Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Badges/timeline

6 month pilot:

Research and preparation: Brainstorming and community engagement:
 * Stage 1, 6 weeks (Oct- beginning of Nov):
 * 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
 * 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