On Mar 19, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
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.
This is a wonderful start, Aaron :) I would just add that right now the process is very
much focused on quantitative research processes but it would be important to also imagine
how this might fit into a qualitative / ethnographic research approaches as well.
Permission processes should perhaps ask researchers to specify which methods they're
using. Recruiting 10-20 editors over the course of a few months through wiki mail or on
talk pages, for example, will look very different from large scale random sampling of
editors across specific criteria.
Best,
Heather.
-Aaron
User:EpochFail
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> 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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