Wiki is a good place to introduce yourself.

In situations where a large number of people are newly meeting each other, having a wiki (Scrapbox) create a self-introduction page rather than creating a self-introduction channel in chat and introducing themselves all at once will enrich the self-introduction information by an order of magnitude and promote mutual understanding.

• Increasing member output promotes mutual understanding.

Number of words on the self-introduction page created in Scrapbox as of the 12th day (5/28) after the project was created. Number of letters N=20 | Median Mean Standard deviation | | — | — | — | | 747 | 884 | 556 |

• We’re still slowly adding members, so we’ll check back in a while when things stabilize.

For chat (2020)

• Sporadic spontaneous self-introductions by new participants were made early in the meeting.

• It was long, and the mentors (half-intentionally to liven it up) commented on it.

• Number of characters in the first 10 self-introductions (not including comment exchanges) Number of letters N=10 | Median Mean Standard deviation | | — | — | — | | 103 | 119 | 61.4 |

• On the day of the face-to-face event, an announcement was made to write your introduction in the introduction thread, and a large number of introductions were circulated.

• There is a sense of convergence to a shorter pattern compared to the early introductions.

  • About 1 to 3 lines
  • I’m X. I’ll be playing X. I’ll be playing X. Please take care of me.
  • Is it because of the last minute people?
  • Were you drawn to the image of a verbal self-introduction?

• Lots of self-introductions are played, so it is difficult to comment or start a conversation even if you are interested in the previous self-introductions a little earlier

• Number of characters in the last 10 self-introductions Number of letters N=10 | Median Mean Standard deviation | | — | — | — | | 94 | 87.8 | 31.7 |

Non-Quantitative Impressions

• Because of the order of magnitude amount of self-introductions, I’ve learned for the first time the origin of the handles of people I’ve mentored with for several years, and I’m like, “Oh, I didn’t know that!” Or something like that.
• Scrapbox’s ability to comment on a line allows me to write in my introductory description, “What, you’re XX? Me too!” type of conversation is occurring.
• Scrapbox’s personal icon specification triggers the act of putting up “images that represent you
  • In the chat room, few people put up images in their introductions.
  • There are many pages with multiple images because if you put one up, you feel the same way about two or three.
• Actively linking the technology you use in your project connects people who use the same technology.
  • Experience of discovering connections with others by writing self-introductions.
  • This is true even in verbal self-introductions, where you might have a conversation in your spare time, saying, “You mentioned something earlier, didn’t you?
    • The self-introduction channel was not associated with a “speaking in front of everyone” situation, or perhaps the chit-chat did not start there.
    • In the case of chat, DMs are close, and the extent to which DMs were made is not observable.
    • In a physical place, local conversations can leak out and trigger another conversation, but that doesn’t happen in a chat DM, the place needs to be designed in such a way that chit-chat happens in a public place.
    • Scrapbox functions like a physical local space where each page
• Cons:
  • As of Day 12, there are 47 Scrapbox participating members and 21 have written self-introductions
    • Some people put off creating an introduction page because the psychological hurdle is raised when they see someone writing a lot of self introductions.
    • But even if we consider them as zero-length introductions, the amount of self-introductions still increases over the chat.
• Introducing it to an existing community doesn’t seem to work.
  • It seems to me that the compulsion from the management to write self-introductions at the right time for newcomers to the project was necessary for the introductions to be written.
  • Frequent opportunities to view Scrapbox for project progress is also necessary to maintain retention
    • If the main work was done elsewhere, using Scrapbox as a place only to put introductions, I bet there would have been people who never opened Scrapbox again after putting their introductions in Scrapbox.
• It is important that there be a shared belief on the team that “participating members will be looking for positive interaction” at the start of a new project.

Written 12 days ago (5/17) - Deepen mutual understanding with Scrapbox

2021-06-11 Day before the event

• At this point, there are 47 members participating in Scrapbox, and 21 of them have written self-introductions

• Situation 14 days after this point
• 72 members
  • 49 have profile pages
    • 3 different profile pages in the system
    • 14 creators + 12 mentors + guests
      • Three of the mentors had not made it as of 5/30, so Nishio urged them to do so.
      • Nishio created it because one person had not created it as of 6/4.
      • Therefore, all guests without a profile page.
  • No profile for 23 people
    • Nishio cooked for 18 people this morning.
    • This brings the page count to 515.

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