Hi!

Hope you are all fine. (Here in Spain, how to say, people are in the squares and it seems we are living historical moments. It is interesting to see how in the square there are inspirational symbols of Internet phenomenons).

On the last progresses, it is very exiting the later steps. Thanks everyone. Here below inputs, Mayo

* On research project template: I like it very much. Thanks. Some comments: + I would also stress the question of giving a camp for method used (as for me is more significant than the field). + Open data and open access: I understand these has only one category at the moment "the project has open data publications". Perhaps for more elaborated versions in the future, it could be added degrees of open data and open access (in line with the several degress of open access present at "WMF support and requirements"). + I understand this template is for the page of the Research project. This is fine. But, shall we also suggest a page structure/index itself, such as in the line of: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_for_research_projects. In terms of page index/structure of research project, I would keep high level of flexibiity for each project define its own page, but still a similar index of the research project pages might help to fastly navegate though them.

* Both on the design of "WMF support and requirements" and "research project template", I am missing something. One thing is to publish in open acces/open data etc. in order to increase research availability etc. This might be good for any research. But researching wikipedia is not like researching anything else, you are dealing with a community (and a community that act and improve its practices also on the base of research results). In this regard, another thing is to make efforts in order to "translate" or make arrive the research results to the Wikipedia community. To publish in open access is a way to facilitate this link with the community, but not the only one. In the line of "giving back the community", I would encourage researchers a set of practices, such as: + create a research project + suggest presentations at Wikimania or present into local meet-ups + incorporate to wikipedia the results of your research + send a short document explaining the main research results to the communications channels (Village Pumps, Foundation-l, wiki(language)-l, wiki-research-l, etc). In order not to over well now researchers when creating the conditions to have support, for me is fine and more easy to handle to start the question of WMF support basically with highlighting open access requirement, but I would still make present transversally though the Meta: Research (for example on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_good_practices_on_Wikipedia_research and here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/On-wiki_research) this category of encoraging "link/translate" your research results back to the community, and in the future see more sharp ways to incentive, highlight and culturally value the researchers who do these efforts to translate/link to the community that goes in line but are something else than publishing in open access.

Ciao! Mayo

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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info

Ph.D European University Institute Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley. Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation

http://www.onlinecreation.info E-mail: mayo.fuster@eui.eu Skype: mayoneti Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 ________________________________________ From: rcom-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [rcom-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dario Taraborelli [dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org] Sent: 26 May 2011 20:32 To: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list Subject: [RCom-l] Research project template: feedback welcome

All,

this is a first attempt to create a template and a corresponding series of categories for research project, as part of the planned overhaul of Meta:Research:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar/SandBox

The template itself is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar/Template:Project I didn't have time to document it but it should be self-explanatory if you look at the markup.

I added two mockup subtemplates that may help categorize projects by other dimensions such as method or main field http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar/Template:Project/fieldcheck http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DarTar/Template:Project/methodcheck

Feedback is welcome before we start implementing this

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