User:DarTar

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Hi, I'm Dario. I am a researcher in social computing based in San Francisco. I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010 as a research consultant and as of 2011 as the Senior Research Analyst with the Foundation's Strategy Team. I am in charge of product research for the Foundation and I coordinate Wikimedia's research outreach and research-related policies via the Research Committee. Prior to joining the Foundation I was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London and at the University of Surrey in the UK.

My work at Wikimedia

Some of the Wikimedia projects that I lead or in which I am involved include:

• a study and visualization of the longest Article for Deletion discussions;
• a survey to identify opportunities and barriers to expert participation in Wikipedia;
• research on the Article Feedback pilot (1 - 2 - 3) and the new generation of AFT (v5);
• the Wikimedia Research Committee, Wikimedia's research policy-making body;
• the Wikimedia Research Index: a new home for Wikimedia research;
• the Wikimedia Research Newsletter : monthly updates from the scholarly literature on Wikimedia projects, in collaboration with the Signpost;
• WikiViz 2011: a data visualization challenge co-organized with WikiSym (read more on Jen Lowe's A Thousand Fibers Connect Us, the winning entry of the challenge);
• A series of real-time feedback data dashboards;
• The Wikipedia cite-o-meter: find scholarly citations by publisher in the top 100 Wikipedias.

Slides from recent talks related to my work at Wikimedia can be found here. A list of my recent publications is available on my personal homepage.

My Wikipedia contributions

I am an open source and open science advocate as well as a TeX-addict, you may occasionally find me edit articles on digital typography, but most of my contributions are about London in history and architecture (see for example: Smithfield, London ). I joined Wikipedia as an editor in 2004.