Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia - Wiki-research-l

19 Mar 2012

Hear, hear.

I've been hesitant to get involved in this discussion because it seemed
like it was constantly on the verge of a flame war.

...
 From all I've seen, Audrey's proposal has been
submitted for RCom review correctly and her actions have not been disruptive.

RCom's documentation is lacking and somewhat convoluted, sure.  We're all
volunteers here.  We're also still working out the details.  Any insights
into where that documentation is lacking is really helpful.  Bold edits are
really helpful too.

It sounds like a formal, publicized requirement for RCom approval for
recruitment of individual participants should be discussed at the next RCom
meeting.  I intend to make sure that happens.  In the meantime, if someone
who is more excited about the issue would like to open an RFC (on
enwiki preferably, since meta isn't well read), I'd be very happy to
participate.  I'd humbly offer my work on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Research&oldid=3619… as
an example of one possible approach.

-Aaron
User:EpochFail

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak &lt;darekj(a)alk.edu.pl&gt;wrote;wrote:

...
  Dear James,

 > Instead of apologizing for your lie with
which you attempted to impugn
> my integrity, you have been trying to cover it up with rhetoric.
>
> Is that behavior considered acceptable at the Wikimedia Foundation? 
 as a bystander non-involved in this particular issue, I find your
 rhetoric quite inflammatory. When you repeatedly speak of lies and
 attempts to impugn your integrity, you really do not encourage people
 to help you (even if you're right, which I doubt from perusing the
 diffs and the discussion). Quite honestly, I'd be quite skeptical
 about clearing out a project of a researcher who in the process of
 negotiating help and access to limited resources (after all, there is
 only X number of projects that can be addressed to Wikipedians) so
 confrontational. No offense meant.

 best,

 dariusz a.k.a. "pundit"

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