Hello,
There is one problem that I met several times with relation to Wiki
research. On the one hand, it is importand to reference to one's
"primary sources", e.g. link to a sentence in a WP discussion we are
talking about. On the other hand, we want to preserve the privacy of
our users.
For example, in Leipzig a lecturer talked about a certain discussion,
and he tried to keep it anonimously because it was about the
discussion itself, not to embarass the persons. But, the anonimity was
soon destroyed by curious listeners, anyway.
Did you already encounter that problem yourself?
Kind regards
Ziko van Dijk
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Ziko van Dijk
Niederlande
Hello all,
first of all, big thanks to Dario and others who helped document the
areas of interest at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest
I find these pages very helpful in understanding the areas we want to
explore together. I would encourage all of you, as individuals, to
always feel free to promote the prominence of any one of these issues,
or others, and begin a dialog with your peers on the committee about
how to address it.
With that being said, I think it would be useful to identify a first
shared problem that we can work on together. In looking at the areas
of interest, it occurs to me that it would be useful to begin drawing
up some high-level principles for research in Wikimedia projects,
which could be recommended to the Wikimedia Foundation Board as policy
(we may also decide not to try to elevate them to this level, but it
seems to me that having a high degree of clarity would be desirable
here). This policy could try to precisely define the parameters of
some of the ambiguous issues such as subject-matter recruitment and
open access.
This kind of articulation is probably also the best way to achieve
some level of consistency across the many different languages and
projects in the Wikimedia universe.
So, with that said, I've written up some quick first notes regarding
the possible shape that such a policy and Board resolution could take,
here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Draft_research_policy
I'd appreciate your thoughts, on-list or on-wiki.
Thanks and all best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Cross-posting in case anyone missed this.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Trends Study - Requesting your Input
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:14:49 -0400
From: Diederik van Liere <dvanliere(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikipedia Researchers,
We have posted a wiki about the Editor Trends Study on the strategy
wiki, you can find it here:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study
We would like to have your input on our suggested approach and in
particular we are curious about your thoughts concerning the following
topics:
1) Definitions of New Editor and Active Editor, do these definitions
correspond with your experiences and are they clear?
2) We suggest doing two types of analysis (Active editor composition
by tenure and Cohort analysis New Wikipedians). What additional
analysis would you suggest that could reveal crucial information that
these two analyses would not generate?
3) Sample of Wikipedia sites to study, let us know if there are other
Wikipedia projects that may be useful to analyze and we'll do our best
to include those.
Please leave your ideas / suggestions on the Talk page and thanks for
your input.
Best,
Howie& Diederik
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Hello all,
you've probably seen this -- help making the page more useful is much
appreciated :-)
Cheers,
Erik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2010/10/18
Subject: New tracking page for research projects
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
I've created http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Projects as a new
canonical tracking page for research projects that are either
currently underway, or that have been recently completed.
If you're currently conducting Wikimedia-related research projects,
please list them on this page. For those not comfortable with
wiki-tables, there's a simple submission form as well.
Feel free to make the page or workflow more useful if you have any
ideas for doing so :-)
Thanks and all best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Just in case some of you missed this discussion on wiki-research-l, which directly relates to one of the RCom's areas of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Research#baseline_requirements_…
Dario
Begin forwarded message:
> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 8 October 2010 10:47:39 GMT+01:00
> To: wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] baseline requirements for researcher permission
> Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've started a discussion about baseline requirements for the
> 'researcher' permission on English Wikipedia.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Research#baseline_requirements_…
>
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> John Vandenberg
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