hi Dario,
Can we also get a response out on the Foundation mailing list where there
is also discussion
All,
this is to give everybody the heads up on a CentralNotice campaign that we
launched hours ago to support a research project involving English
Wikipedia editors. The project is run by the Berkman Center and Sciences Po
and has been extensively reviewed for about a year by the research
committee, the WMF Legal team, the Community and Tech depts and discussed
in community fora [1]
The banner is going live for a few days (target end of the campaign:
Monday night, conditional on the number of completed responses) and is
being displayed only to a subset of logged-in editors of the English
Wikipedia meeting a series of eligibility conditions. The banner has been
designed to minimize disruption to our editors as requested during the
community consultation process.
Since we are getting the first confused reactions from the community via
different channels, I asked the researchers involved in the project (Jérôme
Hergueux and RCom member Mayo Fuster) to set up a FAQ page prominently
placed on the project description on Meta [2] and Jérôme has already
started to draft one. This should allow us to have a central place to
address community concerns on why we are doing this and point people to the
long discussion and review process that led to the decision to support this
project.
I have been working on this project to support the technical/legal
implications longer than I expected and I'll try and catch up with my RCom
backlog as soon as possible.
Dario
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/08/experiment-decision-making/
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and…
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