Jodi,
you're right, we should make this documentation more visible and accessible to
researchers. It's currently linked from the landing page of the Research Index as well
as from the FAQ, any help to improve the documentation is very welcom. WP:BOLD ;)
Dario
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:37 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
Hi Dario & all,
Thanks for that!
RCom review is still confusing to me (and I assume to many). I'm not sure how new
researchers find out about the need for it (or even about the meta documentation
procedures). I think more information/publicity about this could help. One possible and
partial approach would be to have a regular (monthly?) summary of and reminder about RCom
review sent to this email list.
-Jodi
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:So to briefly answer Pine's questions:
- yes, going through RCom review is the standard procedure we expect all proposals to
comply with
- no, a proposal should not be removed from Meta if it hasn't been reviewed, it
should only be flagged as pending review using the WMF-support template. This also means
that Audrey fully complied with the expected procedure to submit a SR request.
- yes, there are privacy concerns, and this is the reason why we take the review of data
collection/retention/licensing terms in the proposal very seriously. As these surveys do
not fall under the WMF's privacy policy they are not reviewed by WMF Legal team unless
they are considered potentially abusive. The only privacy terms that apply are those
displayed on the landing page of a survey and our goal is to support best practices in
setting up these terms (for example, by making sure that these terms are explicitly
accepted by the participants before entering the survey/experiment, particularly in the
case of non-academic studies that are not backed by an explicit IRB approval).
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