Hi R-Com friends, I just wanted to let the Committee know that, after discussing it with Dario Taraborelli and Zack Exley (Chief Community Officer at the Foundation), we're going to assign the 'researcher' user right to the Wikimedia Foundation summer reseach fellows. We'll be doing this on a case-by-case basis as necessary, it will be for a limited time (ending September 1). The full list is listed in the Research Project template on Meta,[1] and at this point will not include people such as myself and Maryana Pinchuk who already have the global staff right.[2] I believe Dario will be creating a Meta page specifically to list all requests publicly in the future, so keep an eye out for that. Regards, -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Staff