Hi all,
FYI, for those who do not regularly follow wikimedia-l, there's a discussion going on there about Wikipedia surveys (sparked off by one particular survey) that may be of interest to this list. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-July/073367.html
Briefly, the meta-question seems to be: we set up some researcher best practices such that researchers should get approval via RCOM, but that process is now not active. So now what? What should researchers do?
(Personally, I think the answer should be to resuscitate RCOM, but that's easy to say and harder to do!)
-- phoebe