[RCom-l] New research project: Anonymity and conformity over the net

[Aaron Halfaker]

I haven't received any other comments about using Special:EmailUser to
contact 1000 users for a survey.  I'd assume that many Wikipedians would
take issue with such an approach.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net&action=edit&redlink=1>

-Aaron

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Aaron Halfaker
<aaron.halfaker at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've just added some initial discussion to the talk page.  This research
> would like to perform recruitment via Special:EmailUser.  I'm not sure how I
> feel about that so I've summarized my thoughts on the matter and asked for
> input.
>
> Also, I've added myself as the "WMF Contact", but I'm not officially WMF
> anymore.  I wonder if we might change that field to RCom Contact or add a
> new field.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> FYI, we have a new recruitment request.  Please see the writeup (
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net)
>> and discussion (
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net&action=edit&redlink=1>
>> )
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis <
>> tsikerdekis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Dario Taraborelli & Aaron Halfaker,
>>>
>>> I would like to bring to your attention a new research project that i
>>> posted on Wikipedia. The page can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net
>>>
>>> As i describe in the text the benefits for understanding the differences
>>> between complete anonymity, pseudonymity and when users use their emails can
>>> be tremendous for online communities and increasing collaboration.
>>>
>>> I also attach to this email a draft(which i haven't proof read yet so
>>> errors can be present) which contains a more rigorous presentation of the
>>> concepts. In fact this draft is the planned version that eventually after
>>> fixing will be send to the publisher of the journal.
>>>
>>> I need to note that the methods that i proposed are subject to change if
>>> they violate certain guidelines. Generally i will accept whatever changes
>>> you propose as long as they maintain the probability sampling method which
>>> is essential for better results.
>>>
>>> Since the survey has already been developed. I am providing you with two
>>> links(if you need more i can give you more) so that you can see it for
>>> yourselves and judge(hopefully with good comments but constructive criticism
>>> is more than welcome) :-)
>>>
>>> http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=17503006602
>>> http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=45766208972
>>>
>>> Thank you for taking the time to consider and i eagerly waiting to hear
>>> back from you :-)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Michail Tsikerdekis
>>> PhD student at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
>>> Brno, Czech Republic
>>>
>>
>>
>
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