Although ethical research is a global concern, note that the specific challenges associated with adhering to IRB policies regarding informed consent, retention of data, etc, is a concern of American academics. This is a great conversation to have, but when talking about guidelines for all Wikipedia research, remember that researchers in industry labs and from countries other than the US generally do not receive federal funds from the United States government, are not bound by the same laws, and may have other frameworks for thinking about the ethics of online research.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
Stuart Geiger wrote:
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A very good idea; I have posted comments on the talk page and made some edits to the proposal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ethically_researching_Wikipedia). I suggest we try to continue the discussion there.
-- Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory."
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