Jonathan Morgan, 17/07/2014 23:37:
> But because we /look like /an official body, it's easy to blame us for

> failing to prevent disruptive research (if you're a community member),
> for "rubber stamping" research that we like (ditto), or for drowning
> research in red tape (if you're a wiki-researcher).

RCOM doesn't *look like* an official body, it claims to be one. With its
current structure, it looks like a WMF staff committee.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees#Staff_committees

If you don't want it to look official, it's easy: call it "interest
group", add a "draft" template, add a "under pilot" warning, call it a
subcommittee of the communications committee (a rather common format).