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…
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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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