Wikimedia Design Strategy
The Design Strategy group supports Product Design at the Foundation by providing the qualitative and quantitative studies that allow Product teams to make informed and inspired decisions. From explanations of what people do and want, to evaluations of what they experience, to experiments with new and emerging technologies, the research team answers the most urgent and impactful questions that stand in the way of delivering the “sum of all knowledge, to all the world’s people, for free, forever.”
Initiatives
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Powered by People
Understanding the motivations, challenges, and strategies of the contributors to Wikimedia Projects. -
Online Social Behavior
Examining the prosocial and disruptive dimensions of online culture - on and off-wiki. -
Machine Augmentation
Exploring machine-in-the-loop technologies to enable knowledge equity at scale. -
Sentiment & Perception
Understanding how our readers and contributors perceive and engage with our tools and processes. -
Research & Development
Exploring longer horizon vision through design-lead experiments and collaborations with third party partners. -
Some Data
Understanding reader, editor and wiki-specific phenomena through quantitative analysis.