[RCom-l] The tragedy of the Commons

[WereSpielChequers]

I'm comfortable with a meeting next week, but I think that the community
and our research partners will want to hear something in the meantime.
There would also be a benefit if we could hold some on wiki discussions as
to the Omnibus survey or any other option.

Clearly one of our options would be to run an RFC to seek consent of the EN
wiki community for us to resume Berkman and run similar things in the
future. But even if we promised some sort of vanilla  advert for it I doubt
we would get consensus or anything close.

We could probably get consensus for an opt in research system so that those
who wanted to could subscribe to some sort of research mailing list of
questionnaires. But I don't think that opt in would give us the volume that
researchers are likely to want and I fear we'd have skews.

If anyone can think of an alternative option I would suggest creating a
draft such as I have at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Omnibus_Survey so that we and the
community can consider it.

Another way to defuse current tension would be for Rcomm  to invite a
couple of the people who have been arguing against the Berkman survey to
join us in our meeting next week.

Regards

WSC

On 12 December 2011 17:52, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi WSC,
>
> thanks for starting this, I agree we need to have a serious assessment of
> what happened with the Berkman incident and discuss alternative options (if
> any) for the future.
> I suggest that we hold an extraordinary RCom meeting some time next week
> to discuss these measures since we have other SR requests on hold.
>
> If nobody objects I am going to start a doodle to find a date that suits
> most of us (cc:ing Dana). It'd be great if those among you heavily invested
> in SR discussions/reviews could make it.
>
> Dario
>
> On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:50 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> After the rather hostile response on the English language wikipedia to the
> Berkman survey I would like to revive my proposal from five months ago for
> an annual Omnibus survey.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Omnibus_Survey
>
> I appreciate that this would put some constraints on the researchers and
> would actually cost the Foundation a bit of money. But unless someone else
> can come up with an alternative way of fairly throttling research surveys
> to the point where the community can accept them, I would suggest that this
> is the only viable option on  the table other than a simple blanket ban on
> third party research surveys.
>
> Regards
>
> WereSpielChequers
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