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.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@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_the_net#Poll:_RCom_support_for_this_project

-Aaron