New survey link posted by a UW student from a group that has done good
Wikipedia studies before. Invitations to participate were posted on the
English Wikipedia RfA Talk page and the Village Pump, so just wanted to give
RCom a heads up...
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Avdelamerced
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Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
During our meeting I remembered that one my friend could be interesting
addition to RCom. He already worked with me on the Wikimedia research
issues two years ago [1]. Basically, this page [2] and its subpages are
the product of our work. The edits are mostly mine, but significant part
of the work is his, too.
So, I talked with him and asked him to write something about himself to
present himself to other RCom members [3].
I would add that he has initiative and that he would help us to be
better organized, too.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Goranmilovanovic
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Millosh/Wikimedia_research
[3] Goran S. Milovanović is a PhD student at the Department of
Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He started
his PhD program at New York University, Cognition and Perception, where
he took his first two years of PhD studies. He is currently working on
his PhD thesis focused on problems of rationality of cognition at the
Belgrade University.
Goran has been involved in Internet related research since 2002, when he
founded the Center for Research on Information Technologies (CePIT,
http://www.bos.rs/cepit/eng/) in Belgrade. He co-authored and edited
five books on Internet research in Serbian. Since 2002. he was involved
in various Internet and Information Governance related research,
including Internet Governance studies such as "Internet Governance
Forum: Identifying the Impact" (http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/impact/)
with DiploFoundation (http://www.diplomacy.edu). He has worked as
Research Coordinator and Research Manager with DiploFoundation
(http://www.diplomacy.edu), Web Manager with Ebart
(http://www.arhiv.rs/) in Belgrade and as a Consultant on research
projects with UNICEF. More information is available from
http://www.milovanovicresearch.com or Google: Goran S. Milovanovic. He
was born in 1974. in Belgrade, Serbia.
I created a new IRC channel on freenode for real-time discussions between RCom members and the community and to coordinate work within RCom without the need of skype.
You'll find me idling there during office hours (9.30am-6pm Pacific time) and occasionally later at night.
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-rcom
If you wish to join but are not familiar with IRC, check out this page for instructions: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC
Once we have a decent number of people regularly idling in this channel we can advertise it on the lists to provide quasi-rt support to external researchers.
Dario
Thanks everybody for your response. Based on the results of the poll and some further email exchange, I confirm the next RCom Meeting will take place on:
Thursday May 19 at 12pm PDT
http://bit.ly/RCom_4
Further details and a link to the agenda will follow. I look forward to talking to you all.
Dario
All,
as some of you may have seen, a young researcher from UMN is requesting feedback for recruiting a large number of participants (1K) for a survey on Wikipedia participation:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Motivation_to_Commons-based_Pe…
As he was trying to bulk-mail 1K editors for this study we temporarily disabled email feedback functionality for his WIkipedia user accounts and explained that these requests need to be reviewed by the Research Committee and community. The detailed description that he posted is a good example of how straightforward it is to obtain extensive information on a proposed recruitment strategy if we start systematically channelling these requests to Meta.
In exchange of the effort researchers put into documenting their research methods, I would like to ensure that we don't keep them on hold indefinitely to obtain community approval if there's no need to. I believe the RCom should play an active role in assessing on behalf of the community whether a given recruitment proposal or data collection method is acceptable or potentially dangerous, so that once the proposal has been cleared by the RCom and we do not hear from the community within a given number of days, we can give the green light to the researcher. I am confident that such a lightweight model can work as long as we have community members on board who can help us identify issues we may not be aware of. I shortly discussed these ideas with Aaron and he will help draft a proposal to submit to the RCom for discussion during the next meeting.
In the meantime please post your feedback on the above proposal via its discussion page if you have any concerns with the methodology.
Dario
Dear all,
this is a friendly reminder that we are running a poll to define the date/time for the upcoming RCom meeting (to be held between May 19 and May 23). I will start working on the agenda for the meeting shortly but I anticipate this meeting will focus on the overhaul of the research section on Meta [1] (including the proposal for an open data repository) and on discussing potential incentives for researcher participation to this project.
I expect to close the poll tomorrow May 17 at 6pm PST, if you are interested in attending but you haven't given your availability yet, you can still do so at:
http://doodle.com/6uvmmq42ksi7yr9k
Best,
Dario
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/2011_overhaul
Hello folks,
I've added:
- Dana Isokawa -- assistant to the WMF strategy team; will help with
organization of the next RCom meeting
- Steven Walling -- Wikimedia community fellow; will help w/ Meta research
section reorganization
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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