On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:06:19 -0700, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Yaroslav,
the request has just been implemented: there's a brand new "Research:" namespace we can now work with. I'll take a stab at it this week and start moving stuff around, this is roughly the structure I had in mind:
We should organize the Research section of Meta around three different types of resources: • Projects - listing current and past studies, spanning both internal
WMF
research and external research • Policies - the body of official policies produced by the RCom • Resources - including tools, materials and pointers for researchers (we could also include a fourth category, i.e. "People" or "Teams", for researchers to maintain their contact information and add a description
of
their current and past work, should User pages not be suitable for this purpose). Pages belonging to the same category should all ideally have a predefined structure and use the same templates.
On top of these 3 (or 4) main sections we will need to create some
easily
accessible top pages, such as:
Research:Index this will be the landing page pointing visitors to the relevant subpages (something along the lines of Aaron's intro page would work great). Erik suggested we pull into this page the list of research projects to make
them
easily accessible. My feeling though is that the "Projects/" prefix is useful to quickly identify research project pages from the URL. I
suggest
we keep the projects directory under Research:Projects and add a
prominent
navigational template to all pages to make it easy to access this
directory
from any other page on Research.
Research:Committee we should move to this node all information about the RCom, its
activities
and areas of interests as well as any open discussions/drafts. I suggest that we move actual RCom-driven research project (such as the Expert participation survey) under Projects/ and that we separate discussions
from
official documents by moving the latter under Policies/ – the lack of a clear distinction between past and ongoing discussions on the one hand
and
official documents on the other hand has plagued Meta for a long time,
I'd
love to address this issue in the overhaul of the Research section.
We should also decide whether to move or not all legacy research pages
to
the new namespace (see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Research).
If we do (which sounds like a good option to me) we will need to flag obsolete or archived discussions to keep them separate from the current RCom work.
Thoughts? If this makes sense to you all we can start moving/rewriting pages. We will need to make a public announcement on wikiresearch-l once
we
have the basic structure in place so others can contribute.
Dario
May be indeed Research:Archived for obsolete and archived discussions?
I am not sure about people. If they are just associated with one particular project they may want to keep their pages on the project subspace; if not, they are just Meta users (like all of us), and there is no need to move their bios to the Research subspace.
Do we want to keep proposals for studies (as well as "much wanted" studies) as a separate subspace?
Cheers Yaroslav