Hello all,

I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Foundation research committee, with 11 initial members. You can find more information and bios here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee

The purpose of the committee is to help organize policies, practices and priorities around Wikimedia-related research. Thanks to everyone who applied to join the committee.

We're using a publicly archived mailing list as our primary means of communication, if you're interested in following what's going on:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l

We'll also begin working on the pages on meta.wikimedia.org to make them more useful, and we'll have a first IRC meeting soon.

All best, Erik