I've made some specific comments on the talkpage,
but hadn't
appreciated that they were planning to run this for two weeks. Perhaps
naively I'd assumed the plan was to switch this off once they'd got
2,000 responses.
The more I think about this and the numbers involved, the more I move
to the idea that we should be expanding our existing survey into an
omnibus survey that carries questions for legitimate researchers like
these.
That way the researchers would benefit from a larger more robust
dataset and the editors benefit from questions not being duplicated,
research not becoming spam and from greater confidence re privacy. The
researchers would get more data - perhaps 5,000 individual but
anonymised records with common questions such as age band, education
level, motive for editing etc, and of course their own question or
questions - dress size, operating system, number of times editor has
been abducted by UFOs or whatever.
My experience is that if people are persuaded to do a survey they
won't be bothered at the length so much as they are by questions they
can't answer without looking something up or talking to someone else.
But repeated surveys with similar questions are a turnoff.
WSC
On 26 June 2011 23:20, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I had a look at the documents and find their approach reasonable. What
I am not convinced about is the necessity of running the notice for
two weeks - I would expect that getting 2000 completed questionnaires
(even for 25min) out of the whole population of all Wikimedians should
take less time.
Anyway, I volunteer to take the survey and to report back to RCom as
to how fit I see the survey design for the intended research purpose.
As for the implications of using CentralNotice this time, we could
think of limiting the number and length of slots available for such
purposes for a certain period of time.
Cheers,
Daniel
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Dario Taraborelli
<dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
All,
I received an urgent request by a team of researchers who have been
waiting for several months for an approval to run a survey of Wikipedia
editors [1].
The team includes researchers based at Harvard and Sciences Po. One RCom
member (Mayo) is also involved in this project.
The project aims to recruit participants by running banners for logged-in
users on the English Wikipedia and the team previously sought community
consensus for this recruitment method via a discussion on the Admin
Noticeboard [2].
The planning of this project predates the creation of the Research Committee
and the community discussion was not explicitly mentioned in the project
page, as a result most people on RCom (myself included) were entirely
unaware of it.
Over the last weeks we have successfully been able to channel new
recruitment requests to Meta, where RCom and community members can discuss
proposed recruitment methods for various studies. I told Jérôme and Mayo
from the Sciences Po/Harvard team that their project should be no exception
and I would like to solicit RCom members to comment on this proposal over
the next days.
The request is sensitive not only for its tight timeline (there was
apparently a commitment to get the banner campaign started today and the
team has already allocated engineers to this project next week), but also
because it would be the first time ever that we use the CentralNotice for
research projects, and this is a decision that may have implications for
future studies.
I'd like to have your thoughts on this proposal via its discussion page
by Monday night (Pacific time) at the latest. I am particularly interested
in hearing on this from community members (such as Ziko, WereSpielChequers,
Milos, Steven).
Because of her direct involvement in the project, Mayo won't be
participating in the discussion.
I attach below a letter that Jérôme addressed to the Research Committee to
document the history of this project.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best
Dario
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and…
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archiv…
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jérôme HERGUEUX <jerome.hergueux(a)sciences-po.org>
Date: June 22, 2011 6:28:19 PM PDT
To: dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu
Subject: Follow up Mayo chat
Reply-To: Jérôme HERGUEUX <jerome.hergueux(a)sciences-po.org>
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Dear Dario,
Thank you for helping us out with this!
Please find attached:
1. A document explaining rapidly the history of our research project and
where we stand now.
2. The original code of the banner we prepared to advertize the study
(normally the folks coding the banners at the Foundation should be aware of
it).
I've linked to our Early research protocol discussion on AN in the link
section of our Talk Page on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Dynamics_of_Online_Interaction…
I'll try to add some relevant info to our research project template very
soon.
Best,
Jérôme (User:SalimJah).
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