Hi Mayo,
many thanks for getting this started, I'll add further comments on the Meta page. I
second Aaron's concerns and we need to think of some clever ways to make the directory
self-sustainable. Incentives related to visibility might play an important role among
researchers (especially if we say that projects listed in the directory will be given
further visibility, once the results are published, via other Wikimedia outlets: blogs,
mailing lists, the Signpost, official twitter accounts), but other ideas are welcome.
The scope of the directory is actually broader than SRAG (as it potentially covers studies
that do not need subject recruitment, such as research based on the dumps, qualitative
research based on direct analysis of Wikimedia contents etc.), but I'd love add this
to the SRAG wishlist. More generally, we should make it mandatory for projects falling in
the "significant WMF support" category (i.e. projects requesting dedicated
engineer effort, special permissions, advertising) to fill in an entry in the directory
and help maintain it across the duration of the project. This should be part of the
requirements (or at least recommendations) we devise for these projects, on top of an open
access publication policy.
Dario
On 22 Feb 2011, at 17:07, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
Although I think a directory of past and present
research projects is a great idea and something that is sorely needed, I'm worried
that it will end up under-maintained.
I wonder if this projects directory can become part of a larger thing with SRAG (and SRAG
can be broadened to account for non-subject recruitment research). Essentially, if a
project is reviewed and approved by a group of interested Wikipedians, it meets the
criteria to be added to the list. As part of the (pseudo)official endorsement,
researchers would be required to keep their listing up-to-date and link to their published
work or meet the fury of the community the next time they want to do research.
The benefit to researchers would be that their work is listed among those endorsed by the
community which gives them credibility and a bit more impact.
A problem I foresee is that previous work wouldn't be listed. Maybe that is alright
and we only want to focus on currently active projects.
-Aaron
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> wrote:
Hola!
I hope that you are fine.
I did my homework, so here you have a suggestion of template for the Directory of
research projects (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_for_research_projects), issue
to be discussed at out next chat meeting (Feb 25).
However, to me it remains several aspects to be defined before hands. That is:
* The scope of the Research Projects directory: Now the scope is defined as: "This
is the canonical directory of Wikimedia research projects that are underway or have
recently been completed. Research projects are documented on many different wikis, but
should all be findable through this page. To qualify for inclusion in this list, a project
should be significant in scope and ethical in nature (according to the guidelines [to be]
developed by the Research Committee)." It remains still the need to define the goals
of the Research Project Directory and why it makes sense to create it (i.e the
problematics linked to research projects and how this research project directory can help
to overcome them, etc).
* The need to define the criteria for inclusion (the above mentioned guidelines) and who
or with which process a research project might pass the "test" of fullfilling
the guidelines.
"Chat" you on Friday! Mayo
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Subject: [RCom-l] The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group moved to meta
Hey folks,
As part of my work in the Subject Recruitment Area of Interest, I've converted the
enwp version of the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group to meta and dropped the language
about the SubjectRecruitmentBot.
See the page here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
I'd like to talk about this approach to managing recruitment request to Wikimedia
project users at our next meeting so please have a look before then.
Thanks,
-Aaron
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