Heather Ford, 01/07/2014 14:37:
We want to encourage more research on Wikipedia, not attack the motivations of people we know little about
I'm not sure about the specific wording, but I think the intention is only to stress the importance of open access/open source/open data in research on Wikimedia projects and wikis. I think it's fair for a Wikimedia community publication to call "disappointing" a closed source, non-replicable experiment.
Nemo