On 22/06/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I was wondering
if you would agree to my analysing your contributions to
Wikipedia. This will basically involve calculating how many times you've
contributed to Wikipedia within the time period of a week.
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions
should be needed to analyze any of them.
In no particular order...
a) politeness;
b) complying with research ethics requirements;
c) value-addedness - if you're analysing specific users, and they have
consented to work with you, you can query them about details.
--
- Andrew Gray
(who did comparable LIS research going on two years ago...)
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk