Hi all,
The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new
Formal Collaboration [1] with Dr. Michael Zimmer (Marquette University) to
work collaboratively on Wikimedia Research Best Practices Around Privacy
White Paper [2]. We prioritized responding to this request from the
Arbitration Committee [3] as part of our mission to strengthen Wikimedia
research communities and to support the policy (broadly defined) needs of
the Wikimedia Movement.[4]
Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would
like to share with you:
* We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the
corresponding research page on meta.[2] Please note the link on that
project page to the Phabricator task, which contains additional details and
timeline information.
* Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
systems. This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level
Phabricator task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured
on Phabricator will be captured there.[5]
* The following formal collaborator (cc-ed) will contribute to this
project: Dr. Michael Zimmer, Marquette University.[6] We are thankful to
them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project, and to
those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
proposal for this project and are planning to continue your contributions
to this program.
* I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia
Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the
project.
Best,
Eli
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Eli Asikin-Garmager
Principal Design Researcher (he/him)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> | Iowa City
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City,_Iowa> (UTC -6/-5)
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Research_Best_Practices_…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World_War…
[4]
https://research.wikimedia.org/
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337883
[6]
https://www.marquette.edu/computer-science/directory/michael-zimmer.php
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>