Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>While Dario is out (on vacation I believe) on his behalf I wanted to forward on an something RCom should be aware of. </div><div><br></div><div><div>You may have heard that in the past Wikiversity community members have used the project as a platform to study Wikimedia projects. It came to our attention that this issue may have cropped up again through an English Wikiversity community member performing some kind of experiment on English Wikipedia.  </div>



<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&amp;oldid=450061202#User:Marshallsumter_disrupting_Wikipedia_for_.22research.22_purposes." target="_blank">In their discussion</a>, the English Wikipedia community has concluded that a good bit of his work is nonsense and problematic from a copyright standpoint. He’s indefinitely blocked on Wikipedia and they are evaluating whether best to delete everything he’s ever done or check each article edit individually. There is also some productive <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Marshallsumter">discussion</a> between the user and English Wikiversity community members. </div>



<div><br></div><div>My understanding is that there isn&#39;t anything which necessarily needs to be taken action on by RCom members immediately, but we felt it was important you should be aware of this, since it&#39;s the not the first time we&#39;ve encountered issues with contentious research projects conducted cross-wiki. If there are further developments we&#39;ll keep RCom updated. </div>



<div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Steven Walling<div>
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><br>
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