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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.

  1. ^ Wikimedia Foundation, The Editor Trends Study. https://strategy.wikimedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=Editor_Trends_Study
  2. ^ Suh, Bongwon; Convertino, Gregorio; Chi, Ed H.; Pirolli, Peter (2009). "The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia". WikiSym '09. ACM. doi:10.1145/1641309.1641322.
  3. ^ Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., Morgan, J., & Riedl, J. (in-press). The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioral Scientist.
  4. ^ Halfaker, A., Kids these days: The quality of new Wikipedia editors over time, Wikimedia Blog. March 27th, 2012.
  5. ^ Musicant, David R.; Ren, Yuqing; Johnson, James A.; Riedl, John (2011). "Mentoring in Wikipedia: a clash of cultures". WikiSym '11. ACM: 173–182. doi:10.1145/2038558.2038586.
  6. ^ Note that Musicant et al., 2011 was written before WP:Teahouse