Wikipedia:Snuggle

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Snuggle is a discontinued, browser-based newcomer observation and support system. Snuggle was designed to allow Wikipedian mentors to observe the activities of recently registered editors and separate good newcomers (good-faith and productive) from the bad ones (bad-faith and vandals).

This tool was designed in response to a 2009 study that demonstrated a decline in newcomer retention in Wikipedia^[1][2] due to an increasingly negative environment for desirable newcomers^[3][4] and that Wikipedia's current socialization systems doesn't work because mentors don't find newcomers when they most need help.^[5][6] Snuggle was designed to help experienced Wikipedians identify desirable newcomers who are editing in good faith and help them dodge Wikipedia's sharper corners.

Further information: http://tools.wmflabs.org/videotutorials/Snuggle/

Snuggle's user interface runs entirely within a browser window. A user browser provides a list of newcomers, with an interactive visualization of their activities over time (see Figure 3) and a summary of messages that have been posted on the newcomers' user talk pages. Using Snuggle, you can quickly review the activities of a list of recent newly registered user accounts and sort them into good-faith newcomers who should be supported and bad-faith newcomers who ought to be ignored or sent to WP:AIV. You can also perform some relevant actions that affect the wiki such as sending a message, posting an invitation to the WP:Teahouse or reporting the user to WP:AIV (see Figure 2).

Snuggle is 100% free, open-source software, the source code is available under the MIT license^[7]. It's built on top of a python-based server back-end with an HTML/Javascript/CSS front-end. You can find the repository and issue tracker on GitHub.

• 2012-09-15: HTML mockup of UI produced ([1])
• 2012-10-02: Synchronizer tracking recentchanges on English Wikipedia
• 2012-12-01: Newcomer desirability prediction system proof of concept based on scores generated by WP:STiki.
• 2012-01-02: Integration with Wikipedia's authentication system
• 2013-01-03: User action menu released
• 2013-01-04: IRC demo & feedback session at 1700 UTC/11AM CST in #wikimedia-office
• 2013-01-10: Demonstration to the Wikimedia Foundation
• 2013-03-07: User actions menu implemented
• 2013-04-25: Intelligent newcomer desirability ranking algorithm
• 2013-05-02: Configuration overhaul. Preliminary multi-lingual support.
• 2013-05-10: API support for synchronization.
• 2013-05-25: Configurable user actions
• 2013-05-27: i18n support added
• 2013-05-31: 1.0rc1 released on the WMF labs cluster http://snuggle.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org
• 2013-06-06: New instance set at http://snuggle.grouplens.org
• 2013-06-10: Welcome screen with recent activity
• 2013-06-12: Version 1.1 released
• 2013-06-14: Sign-up list notified of release. Snuggle is officially live!

See also issue and feature tracking.

• 2013-07-17: IRC mentor discussion in #wikimedia-office ^connect at 1600 UTC;
• August 9th: Present @ Wikimania in Hong Kong
• September 18th: Full project report to be published on meta

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