RCom-l October 2011

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RCom Meeting next week: Thursday October 27 19:00 UTC
by Dana Isokawa 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi everyone, The next RCom meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, October 27 at 19:00 UTC (check your time<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=RCom+Meeting&iso=2…>). Like last time, it will be held via Webex call, dial in info is below. If you anticipate difficulties calling in, please give me a number for us to call you at instead. Dario will follow up with an agenda on meta ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2011-10-…). Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Thanks! Dana RCom Meeting: Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493 Call-in toll number (US/Canada): +1-408-600-3600 Global call-in numbers: https://wikimedia.webex.com/wikimedia/globalcallin.php?serviceType=MC&ED=16… Toll-free dialing restrictions: http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf Access code: 801 148 223 -- Dana Isokawa Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development +1 415 839 6885 ext 6689 www.wikimedia.org

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New WMF project directory
by Dario Taraborelli 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

I've replaced the unmaintainable static table with a series of dynamically generated lists based on our templates, feedback welcome: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects Dario

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editor survey 2.0
by Mani Pande 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hey Everyone, We (me and my colleague, Ayush) are working on the questionnaire for the semi-annual editor survey. You can find the wiki for the survey here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2… The plan is to survey the editing community to get their input on the health of community, their experiences every six month, and we did the last survey in April 2011 so it is time for a redo. The survey is very similar to the April 2011 survey, just shorter and I added few questions based on my talks with some folks at the foundation and I also used findings from the summer of research as an input into this. You can read FAQ about the survey to find out more. I am hoping that some of you would take out time to provide us feedback on the questionnaire. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_Novem… Looking forward to hearing from you. Mani

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Feedback data privacy and licenses
by Dario Taraborelli 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

All, I wanted to give you the heads up on two documents that have been recently reviewed by the board regarding how WMF handles data collected via the new feedback feature. The short answer is: as any other edit. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Feedback_data http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Feedback_privacy_statement Dario

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Triaging new requests
by Dario Taraborelli 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

I created a new default option for uncategorized research projects [1]: {{WMF-support|xx}} All pages created using the research project template will be added to the category associated with this template [2] until an RCom member reviews the project and assigns to the relevant queue, e.g. {{WMF-support|sr|pending}} [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WMF-support [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uncategorized_support_requests Dario

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Wikimedia France Research Award
by Dario Taraborelli 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

All, Remi and Carol-Ann from Wikimedia France (cc'ed) are organizing a research award for Wikimedia research in 2012. They would love to have input from RCom (etherpad link at the bottom). I copy also the communication people at WMF as they may have useful suggestions. Dario ___________________ Hello Everyone, Remi B (Board members) and Carol-Ann (education/research officer) of Wikimedia France here WMFr wants to initiate an international research award on Wikipedia/free knowledge next year. Our goal is to reward and promote seminal research work on Wikimedia/free knowledge projects. The idea started a while ago at WMFr, but we bootstrapped it on earnest only after we hired a research officer and it’s been in advanced discussion for weeks (after we outlined the project we had major intakes from Dario and our board). Now before any public launch, we would like to run the ideas with you, since this is definitely your area of expertise. So we would like to have your intake on this idea, particularly regarding two questions 1/the award name and 2/ the potential jury members. We are not members of this mailing (and thanks to Dario for forwarding this) so please refer to this etherpad for details and discussing ideas: http://goo.gl/dAUp8 See you there !

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Science Code Manifesto
by Dario Taraborelli 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Some of you may have seen this initiative: http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/ I'd like to hear from you if this is something we would be willing to endorse on behalf of WMF. Dario

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New project on wiki anxiety
by Dario Taraborelli 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

A new project has been added to the Research directory: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Investigating_editing_anxiety_in_ne… The PI – Benjamin Cowan – is an HCI researcher based in Edinburgh and I had a few conversations with him on this project over the last weeks. This research sounds very timely and relevant to WMF's work on new user engagement (I am cc'ing the Summer of Research list), but we need to figure out how to best handle the recruitment of participants. One option we discussed would be to (temporarily) integrate a questionnaire into the new MoodBar feature [1], but I need to discuss this internally with the tech people. In the meantime your feedback is very welcome. I told Ben we need more information, for example on the target sample size. He'll be adding more details in the coming days. Dario [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar

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Re: [RCom-l] New research project: Anonymity and conformity over the net
by Aaron Halfaker 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

FYI, we have a new recruitment request. Please see the writeup ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_n…) and discussion ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Anonymity_and_con…> ) -Aaron On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis <tsikerdekis(a)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_n… > > 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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Resigning
by Luca de Alfaro 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Dear All: It was a great honor for me to be part of the WMF Research Committee. However, in practice, I am finding it very difficult to find the time to contribute. It is thus best that I resign from the committee, so that you can give the postion to someone who can contribute. I wish you all the best, and I hope to be able to be useful in some other way, Luca

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