Hello everyone-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am an en.wikipedian and faculty
member at Endicott College (Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.) I have spent the
last two years researching bots on WP/WM projects (primarily en.wikipedia),
and I have recently been chatting with bot operators who work on
non-English language versions of the encyclopedia and other WM projects.
Thank you to everyone who has given his or her time and expertise on bots,
bot policies, and bot communities on the sites.
I am still looking for more participants to chat with about their work and
experiences with bots and automated tools on WP/WM (IRC, Skype, Gchat,
email, or whatever works for you). If you operate a bot, contribute to the
approval of bots on your local project, participate in discussions and
policy-making around bots, or have any similar experiences, I'd love to
chat with you. Online chats usually last between 30-60 minutes and can be
scheduled at a time convenient for you. Please note, I am only able to
correspond in English.
If you are interested in participating, feel free to email me directly (
rlivings(a)endicott.edu) or leave a message for me on my en.wp Talk
page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:UOJComm>mm>.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Randall Livingstone
School of Communication
Endicott College
WP User: UOJComm
You can learn more about me and download my dissertation
here<http://commtechtheorysociety.com/about/>
.
This research has been approved by the Institutional Review Boards at both
the University of Oregon and Endicott College. (Feel free to request a copy
of those protocols).