That's massive as far as editors are concerned in enwiki. The closest
applicable policy (
) only
makes general statements about what might be considered a "Mass posting",
but I'm pretty sure that Wikipedians rarely expect to see a user go from a
single digit edit count to 500 from User_talk page postings in the course
of a day.
Although I don't expect this to be truly disruptive to editors, I expect
that many alarms will go off when the talk postings begin to be posted
since the activity will be so unusual.
-Aaron
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Goran Milovanovic <
goran.s.milovanovic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok Aaron, I am on it. I don't see any problem with
this research and my
vote to go on with it (changed on the project's talk page already made).
BTW: "...since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300
responses needed)."
Q: what is "massive" in the recruitment request for 200-300 respondents
online?
Best,
Goran
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I was hoping to close this poll hours ago, but we
only have three members
of RCom participating (thanks Yaroslav and Steven!).
It is absolutely crucial that if we end up technically approving this
study methodology that such approval actually reflects the consensus of
RCom members.
For your benefit, I'll summarize the proposed plan:
A request to participate in a *survey* about enforcing conformance with
community/group outcomes *needs 200-300 responses* from general
Wikipedia editors. Invitations to take the survey will be posted an
editors' User_talk pages. *A pilot set of 15 requests will be posted
immediately* following approval from RCom to test for problems and
determine the expected response rate. Afterwards, *up to 500 User_talk
postings* will be made (depending on response rate) to illicit enough
responses to give statistical confidence.
This is the first proposed project of this scale that we are reviewing
for approval so I really want to make sure we are doing it right.
-Aaron
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hey folks,
This proposal is an important milestone for our subject recruitment
processes, since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300
responses needed). I'm hoping to either show a high level of support with
this poll or discover what problems still need to be dealt with.
I'd like to close the poll by *Wednesday @ noon UTC*. Please make sure
to chime in.
See poll:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_…
-Aaron
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