Aaron Halfaker wrote:
Hello,
I am re-posting here because I thought people might be interested in a
proposal
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Wikipedia_r…
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Wikipedia_research_review>)
that my lab-mates and I have been working on. The gestalt of the
proposal is that Wikipedia needs a review system to both protect itself
from questionable research activities and to allow good research to take
place within the system. Currently research involving anything other
than the database snapshots is difficult because there is no formal
policy related to research within Wikipedia.
This would be useful if it would be replacing institutional IRBs.
Otherwise, its just adding another layer of bureaucracy (and I don't
even want to think what would happen if Wikipedia IRB would disagree
with my university IRB...).
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Piotr Konieczny