Hi Dario and Dariusz,
Thanks for the updates.
I would support moving forward with
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Reorganization.
Dario, I am getting the impression that some dedicated WMF staff support for
RCom would be beneficial, given RCom's global nature, its workload, and the
value of its work. Staff support would help with sustainability and
day-to-day coordination of the many activities of RCom including subject
recruitment requests. I hope that institutions and researchers who work with
Wikimedia data and subjects in their research would step forward to provide
financial support for the hiring of at least a part-time WMF staffer.
Regarding the procedure for subject recruitment approvals, I get the
impression that at least two small groups of editors have worked on separate
proposals. I would suggest creating a working group to integrate these
and/or to decide to forward both of the proposals to the community as
alternatives.
Thanks very much.
Pine
-----Original Message-----
From: Dariusz Jemielniak
Sent: Thursday, 19 July, 2012 12:18
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Cc: ENWP Pine ; The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals
Group
hi Pine,
BlueRaspberry and I ("pundit") had a discussion about this recently
and it seems we're ready to make a proposal for the community
consideration, if there is interest.
best,
dariusz
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Dario Taraborelli
<dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Pine,
that's correct, we discontinued the bi-monthly meetings for a number of
reasons even though many activities that fall within the scope RCom
continued silently over the last months (project/subject recruitment
request
reviews; monthly publication of the research newsletter; open access and
open data policies; expert engagement initiatives). At this stage RCom is
an
entirely volunteer-driven effort with little to no support from WMF (I am
myself helping during my spare time). For RCom to fulfill its mission we
need to find a better collaboration model, make it more self-sustainable
and
open up participation to community members in its various areas of
activities. To this aim I posted a reorg proposal [1] that was introduced
and discussed last week at a workshop organized by Mayo Fuster at
Wikimania.
Part of this reorganization includes a new policy proposal drafted by
Aaron
Halfaker to replace the current review process with a new one with a
strong
community engagement component [2]. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how
to move forward, I expect we will be sharing updates on research-l once
we've reviewed these various proposals.
Best,
Dario
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Reorganization
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recruitment_policy
On Jul 19, 2012, at 1:55 AM, ENWP Pine wrote:
Hi Dario,
I have a couple of questions.
Are the RCom pages still being updated? I'm seeing some outdated stuff
there, and
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/RComMonthlyReports2012 seems to
indicate less activity since March.
Did RCom ever reach conclusions about standards for recruiting Wikimedians
to be research subjects, and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group? We
had
a discussion about those issues on this list in March, and I got the
impression that RCom was planning to take action on that at the next RCom
meeting. There was also some activity at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Committee/Areas_of_interest/S….
I'd appreciate RCom bringing some finality and clarification to these
procedures as written on Meta before the next US academic year starts,
and/or starting some sort of formal working group.
I'm cc'ing this email to Research-l because I feel that other members of
the
list might also appreciate an update on subject recruitment approval and
on
RCom's work.
Thanks very much.
Pine
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