Heather, I am not sure who contribute that.
Probably not Nemo. If this
issue of newsletter is correctly attributed, the contributors include: Taha
Yasseri, Maximilian Klein, Piotr Konieczny, Kim Osman, and Tilman Bayer. My
suggestion is only a personal one, and I am not sure if it is against
policies to make a few edits once the newsletter is out.
Thanks again to the contributors of the newsletter, my life is a bit
easier and more interesting because of your work.
2014-07-02 15:35 GMT+07:00 Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com>om>:
+1 Thanks for your really thoughtful comments, Joe, Han-Teng.
Nemo, would you be willing to add a note to the review and/or
contacting the researcher?
Best,
Heather.
Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme
EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net> | Oxford Digital
Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115>
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On 2 July 2014 05:17, h <hanteng(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The tone of the sentence in question
>
> 'it is disappointing that the main purpose appears to be
> completing a thesis, with little thought to actually improving
> Wikipedia'
>
> could have been written as
>
> 'It would be more useful for the Wikipedia community of practice
> if the author discussed or even spelled out the implications of the
> research for improving Wikipedia".
>
> This suggestion is based on my own impression that [Wiki-research-l]
> has mainly two groups of readers: community of practice and community of
> knowledge. It is okay to have some group tensions for creative/critical
> inputs. Still, a neutral tone is better for assessment, and an encouraging
> tone might work a bit better to encourage others to fill the *gaps* (both
> practice and knowledge ones).
>
> Also, the factors such as originally intended audience and word
> limits may determine how much a writer can do for *due weight* (similar to
> [[WP:due]]). If the original (academic) author failed to address the
> implications for practices satisfactory, a research newsletter contributor
> can point out what s/he thinks the potential/actual implications are. (My
> thanks to the research newsletter's voluntary contributors for their
> unpaid work!)
>
> While I understand that the monthly research newsletter has its
> own perspective and interests different from academic newsletters, it does
> not sacrifice the integrity of the newsletter to be gentle and specific. I
> would recommend a minor edit to the sentence as the the newsletter could be
> read by any one in the world, not just the Wikipedians. It is
> public/published for all readers, and thus please do not assume the readers
> know the context of Wikipedia research.
>
> Best,
>
> han-teng liao
>
>
> 2014-07-01 19:37 GMT+07:00 Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
>> Thanks so much for the newsletter [1]! Always a great read...
>>
>> But have to just say that comments like this: 'it is disappointing
>> that the main purpose appears to be completing a thesis, with little
>> thought to actually improving Wikipedia' [2] are really harsh and a little
>> unfair. The student is studying Wikipedia - they can hardly only be
>> interested in completing their thesis. We need to remember that researchers
>> are at very different stages of their careers, they have very different
>> motivations, and different levels of engagement with the Wikipedia
>> community, but that *all* research on Wikipedia contributes to our
>> understanding (even if as a catalyst for improvements). We want to
>> encourage more research on Wikipedia, not attack the motivations of people
>> we know little about - particularly when they're just students and
>> particularly when this newsletter is on housed on Wikimedia Foundation's
>> domain.
>>
>> Best,
>> Heather.
>>
>> [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June
>> [2]
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June#.22Recommendi…
>>
>> Heather Ford
>> Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral
>> Programme
>> EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital
>> Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115>
>>
>>
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>>
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