On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:41:18 -0700, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
All,
as some of you may have seen, a young researcher from UMN is requesting feedback for recruiting a large number of participants (1K) for a survey
on
Wikipedia participation:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Motivation_to_Commons-based_Pee...
As he was trying to bulk-mail 1K editors for this study we temporarily disabled email feedback functionality for his WIkipedia user accounts
and
explained that these requests need to be reviewed by the Research
Committee
and community. The detailed description that he posted is a good example
of
how straightforward it is to obtain extensive information on a proposed recruitment strategy if we start systematically channelling these
requests
to Meta.
In exchange of the effort researchers put into documenting their
research
methods, I would like to ensure that we don't keep them on hold indefinitely to obtain community approval if there's no need to.
Dear All,
should we set some policies for ourselves for such cases? For instance, unless the case has been marked as "difficult", we should decide within one week whether it goes through, gets rejected or needs a community approval?
Cheers Yaroslav