Hi R-Com friends,<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to let the Committee know that, after discussing it with Dario Taraborelli and Zack Exley (Chief Community Officer at the Foundation), we&#39;re going to assign the &#39;researcher&#39; user right to the Wikimedia Foundation summer reseach fellows. We&#39;ll be doing this on a case-by-case basis as necessary, it will be for a limited time (ending September 1). </div>

<div><br></div><div>The full list is listed in the Research Project template on Meta,[1] and at this point will not include people such as myself and Maryana Pinchuk who already have the global staff right.[2] </div><div>

<br></div><div>I believe Dario will be creating a Meta page specifically to list all requests publicly in the future, so keep an eye out for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div><br>-- <br>Steven Walling<div>

Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><br>
</div><div>1. <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011</a></div><div>2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Staff">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Staff</a></div>

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