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Aaron Halfaker wrote:

A few of the other attendees of WikiSym and I had a long discussion about the problems related to interactions between researchers and Wikipedians. It seems to me that the conclusion we came to is that the vast majority of the problems could be solved through an organized effort to build policy and procedures with the Wikipedia community. I've written up a proposal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Researc...) to create a WikiProject to help organize the effort to construct these policies and procedures for the English Wikipedia.

The proposal is short (2 paragraphs and a few examples). Please have a look if you have or are planning to interact with Wikipedians during your research.

Thanks! Aaron Halfaker GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

I note that this proposal has become an official Wikiproject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research I would suggest if you had previously added your name to the proposal page, you should add it to this page as well.

- -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

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