Hi WSC,
thanks for starting this, I agree we need to have a serious assessment of what happened with the Berkman incident and discuss alternative options (if any) for the future. I suggest that we hold an extraordinary RCom meeting some time next week to discuss these measures since we have other SR requests on hold.
If nobody objects I am going to start a doodle to find a date that suits most of us (cc:ing Dana). It'd be great if those among you heavily invested in SR discussions/reviews could make it.
Dario
On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:50 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Dear All,
After the rather hostile response on the English language wikipedia to the Berkman survey I would like to revive my proposal from five months ago for an annual Omnibus survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Omnibus_Survey
I appreciate that this would put some constraints on the researchers and would actually cost the Foundation a bit of money. But unless someone else can come up with an alternative way of fairly throttling research surveys to the point where the community can accept them, I would suggest that this is the only viable option on the table other than a simple blanket ban on third party research surveys.
Regards
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