Right now, the "researcher" right process is sort of in limbo while we
figure out a good way to assign that user group.
I think the best way to manage this is to have a community vetting process
for allowing researchers to access the user right. Regretfully, we don't
have one right now[1]. I think the best way to get access to such a right
would be to document your research project on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_project> and then post on the
discussion forums of the wikis you are targeting asking to be granted the
"researcher" right. If you're targeting English Wikipedia, I'd suggest
bringing this proposal to
1.
Hi Mackenzie,
Thanks for sharing more about your research here.
Do you intend to request access to the deleted logs of specific
Wikipedia language editions or all Wikipedias?
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Mackenzie Lemieux
<mackenzie.lemieux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wiki Community,
My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the
Salk
Institute for Biological Studies and I am
interested in exploring biases
on
Wikipedia.
My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of
flagging and deletion of pages for women in STEM. I hope to
retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the
biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the
past
n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity
of a large sample.
It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion
log
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log>, but to actually
see
the page that was deleted we need to be members
of one of these Wikipedia
user groups: Administrators
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Oversighters
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight>, Researchers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers>, Checkusers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser>.
Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there
anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need?
Warmly,
Mackenzie Lemieux
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Mackenzie Lemieux
mackenzie.lemieux(a)gmail.com
cell: 416-806-0041
220 Gilmour Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6P 3B4
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