I think it will be important that you don&#39;t participate in your own review as a member of RCom in order to avoid a COI.  Otherwise I don&#39;t this as a problem.  Anyone else have an opinion on the matter?<div><br></div>

<div>-Aaron<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Goran Milovanovic <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com">goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Thx Aaron - got it. Ok, let&#39;s see how this one goes.<div><br></div><div>BTW, it&#39;s been a while since I have started planning a social science study on Wikipiedians, and it might be possible that at some point I will need subject recruiting. I am at the beginning of the process so we&#39;re talking months here before I actually decide to conduct the study. Does my membership in RComm interferes with doing a Wikipedia related research on my own? Please advise.  </div>


<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Goran</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="adm"><div id="q_133ae46b14b3bae2_1" class="ajR h4"><div class="ajT"></div></div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Aaron Halfaker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aaron.halfaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaron.halfaker@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That&#39;s massive as far as editors are concerned in enwiki.  The closest applicable policy (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS</a>) only makes general statements about what might be considered a &quot;Mass posting&quot;, but I&#39;m pretty sure that Wikipedians rarely expect to see a user go from a single digit edit count to 500 from User_talk page postings in the course of a day.<div>




<br></div><div>Although I don&#39;t expect this to be truly disruptive to editors, I expect that many alarms will go off when the talk postings begin to be posted since the activity will be so unusual.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>


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</font></span><div><span><font color="#888888">-Aaron</font></span><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Goran Milovanovic <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Ok Aaron, I am on it. I don&#39;t see any problem with this research and my vote to go on with it (changed on the project&#39;s talk page already made).</span><div>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">BTW: &quot;...<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300 responses needed).&quot; </span></span></div>





<div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Q: what is &quot;massive&quot; in the recruitment request for 200-300 respondents online?</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br>





</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Best,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Goran</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div></div></div></div><div>On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Aaron Halfaker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aaron.halfaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaron.halfaker@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>





</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div></div></div></div><div>

I was hoping to close this poll hours ago, but we only have three members of RCom participating (thanks Yaroslav and Steven!).<div>
<br></div><div>It is absolutely crucial that if we end up technically approving this study methodology that such approval actually reflects the consensus of RCom members. </div>

<div><br></div><div>For your benefit, I&#39;ll summarize the proposed plan:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>A request to participate in a <b>survey</b> about enforcing conformance with community/group outcomes <b>needs 200-300 responses</b> from general Wikipedia editors.  Invitations to take the survey will be posted an editors&#39; User_talk pages.  <b>A pilot set of 15 requests will be posted immediately</b> following approval from RCom to test for problems and determine the expected response rate.  Afterwards, <b>up to 500 User_talk postings</b> will be made (depending on response rate) to illicit enough responses to give statistical confidence.</div>







</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>-Aaron</div></font></span><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Halfaker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aaron.halfaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaron.halfaker@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">







<div>Hey folks,</div><div><br></div><div>This proposal is an important milestone for our subject recruitment processes, since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300 responses needed).  I&#39;m hoping to either show a high level of support with this poll or discover what problems still need to be dealt with.</div>








<div><br></div><div>I&#39;d like to close the poll by <b>Wednesday @ noon UTC</b>.  Please make sure to chime in.  </div><div><br></div>See poll: <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net#Poll:_RCom_support_for_this_project" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net#Poll:_RCom_support_for_this_project</a><span><font color="#888888"><div>








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