Andrew Gray wrote:
On 22/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I was wondering if you would agree to my analysing your contributions to Wikipedia. This will basically involve calculating how many times you've contributed to Wikipedia within the time period of a week.
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions should be needed to analyze any of them.
In no particular order...
a) politeness; b) complying with research ethics requirements; c) value-addedness - if you're analysing specific users, and they have consented to work with you, you can query them about details.
You're welcome to analyze mine if you'd like, and to ask any questions you may have. (My Wikipedia username is Seraphimblade.)