Extend(ed)ing work to get Academics the credit they deserve using the Wikimedia Impact Tracker

This research project continues the work of a previous research project “Developing Wikimedia Impact Metrics as a Sociotechnical Solution for Encouraging Funder and Academic Engagement”. Whereas our previous project was about whether people want better ways to indicate their impact and what such a mechanism might look like, this project is about building upon the minimally viable product we developed during the last grant, with a core user group, a marketing/ recruitment survey, the development of particular user profiles, and piloting those user profiles in Year 2. Our previous research has demonstrated a strong desire in this direction, and this grant is about understanding and organizing to meet this need. Providing support to contributors is Strategy 1.1, and we believe providing professional credit in terms of impact metrics can be a key mechanism to recruiting contributors and helping funders track the impact of their grants on the Wikimedia platform and open knowledge in general.