Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Badges/timeline

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