Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
... due to the lack of a formal policy, the RCom has never been in a position to grant any kind of "definitive approval" to recruit participants....
I appreciate that clarification, but it strictly contradicts this edit from 11 days ago:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Subject_recruitment&...
about which Dario said, "I appreciate the documentation on the review procedure" at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Subject_recruitment
I think there are some very serious ethical issues here. Requiring Research Committee approval to contact editors or users was explicitly rejected by the Research Committee:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2010-09-1...
As far as I can tell, the Research Committee has not discussed the topic since.
I wonder what the community thinks of this new requirement.
Sincerely, James Salsman