Also, I've added myself as the "WMF Contact", but I'm not officially WMF anymore. I wonder if we might change that field to RCom Contact or add a new field.

I haven't received any other comments about using Special:EmailUser to contact 1000 users for a survey. I'd assume that many Wikipedians would take issue with such an approach. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_… -Aaron On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: I've just added some initial discussion to the talk page. This research would like to perform recruitment via Special:EmailUser. I'm not sure how I feel about that so I've summarized my thoughts on the matter and asked for input. Also, I've added myself as the "WMF Contact", but I'm not officially WMF anymore. I wonder if we might change that field to RCom Contact or add a new field. -Aaron On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: FYI, we have a new recruitment request. Please see the writeup (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_n…) and discussion (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_…) -Aaron On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis <tsikerdekis(a)gmail.com> wrote: Dear Dario Taraborelli & Aaron Halfaker, I would like to bring to your attention a new research project that i posted on Wikipedia. The page can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_n… As i describe in the text the benefits for understanding the differences between complete anonymity, pseudonymity and when users use their emails can be tremendous for online communities and increasing collaboration. I also attach to this email a draft(which i haven't proof read yet so errors can be present) which contains a more rigorous presentation of the concepts. In fact this draft is the planned version that eventually after fixing will be send to the publisher of the journal. I need to note that the methods that i proposed are subject to change if they violate certain guidelines. Generally i will accept whatever changes you propose as long as they maintain the probability sampling method which is essential for better results. Since the survey has already been developed. I am providing you with two links(if you need more i can give you more) so that you can see it for yourselves and judge(hopefully with good comments but constructive criticism is more than welcome) :-) http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=17503006602 http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=45766208972 Thank you for taking the time to consider and i eagerly waiting to hear back from you :-) Best regards, Michail Tsikerdekis PhD student at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: I would say that 1,000 people is too many to use the email function. -- Steven Walling Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l

All, this request is still marked as pending approval: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_… I invite you to send your feedback or express any concern you may have with this project by Friday, we'll flag it as reviewed otherwise. Dario On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: This discussion fizzled out, but I'm hoping we could move it to the talk page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_…) to reach a conclusion. Dario & Steven, would you be willing to re-post your opinions there? -Aaron On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Steven Walling &lt;swalling(a)wikimedia.org&gt;wrote;wrote: _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l

I have added my comments and I don't have any ethical objections. However, I find this research of little value to the Wikipedia community. It's generic online behavior and if we are going to open our community for this kind of research then we will run out of volunteers soon as well. Best, Diederik On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Aaron Halfaker &lt;aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_… http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_… ) to swalling(a)wikimedia.org&gt; active -- <a href="http://about.me/diederik">Check out my about.me profile!</a> _______________________________________________ RCom-l mailing list RCom-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l