Hello,
I am a researcher in the GroupLens lab (http://grouplens.org) at the University of Minnesota. You might recognize previous work in Wikipedia like "Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia" (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf).
As part of our continuing work within Wikipedia, my colleagues and I are conducting an academic (non-commercial) study in which we have developed a modification that is designed to help users work together more effectively by changing the interface for reverting other editors.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will be automatically assigned a Wikipedia gadget that will consist of a subset of the modifications we have developed. As part of the study, we will be logging your usage of the tool (ie. when you are reverting other editors). We will also be available for tech support and bug fixes. Most likely there will be a survey at the completion and the complete tool will be made available.
Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/
-Aaron Halfaker GroupLens Research University of Minnesota
Having read the consent form and such, I don't see any problem with participating, and have enabled the tool. I would encourage others to do the same. The study is able to progress with a few seconds on our part spent installing the gadget. I would note recent Village Pump discussions on the tool: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikipedia_in.... To summarise what has been said there: with concerns having being raised there, the tool is now hosted on Wikipedia, and so users are able to watchlist the gadget page and scrutinise any changes to the code.
AGK
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Aaron Halfakerhalf0032@umn.edu wrote:
Hello,
I am a researcher in the GroupLens lab (http://grouplens.org) at the University of Minnesota. You might recognize previous work in Wikipedia like "Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia" (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf).
As part of our continuing work within Wikipedia, my colleagues and I are conducting an academic (non-commercial) study in which we have developed a modification that is designed to help users work together more effectively by changing the interface for reverting other editors.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will be automatically assigned a Wikipedia gadget that will consist of a subset of the modifications we have developed. As part of the study, we will be logging your usage of the tool (ie. when you are reverting other editors). We will also be available for tech support and bug fixes. Most likely there will be a survey at the completion and the complete tool will be made available.
Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/
This looks interesting -- I might have a look at the tools myself in the week when I have a bit more time.
I would, however, urge everyone to use the "manual" installation process. I don't think it's good form to ask people for their credentials on another site. Indeed, it is forbidden (actively prohibited) for those with Toolserver accounts to do this.
I am sure that you won't be being evil with the information, but nevertheless I don't think you should request it.
Sam
I think that is a popular observation/opinion. If we could go back, we'd probably never have the automatic installation. We went through a lot of trouble with it thinking it could help less experienced users install the tool assuming they would be less comfortable adding code to their monobook.js. We see now that it really only ended up being trouble.
Thanks for installing the tool though. Let me know via email or talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:EpochFail) if you have any questions or find any bugs.
-Aaron
AGK wrote:
I would, however, urge everyone to use the "manual" installation process. I don't think it's good form to ask people for their credentials on another site. Indeed, it is forbidden (actively prohibited) for those with Toolserver accounts to do this.I'm with Sam on this one.
AGK
Aaron, Could the automatic installation section not simply be removed from the install.html page?
AGK
AGK,
Good point. Our only concern is having to re-apply to the IRB. It seems that this change does not materially affect the general consent/installation process, so we pulled it out and will make it available upon requests from individuals.
-Aaron
AGK wrote:
Aaron,
Could the automatic installation section not simply be removed from the install.html page?
AGK
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Aaron Halfakerhalf0032@umn.edu wrote:
AGK,
Good point. Our only concern is having to re-apply to the IRB. It seems that this change does not materially affect the general consent/installation process, so we pulled it out and will make it available upon requests from individuals.
Thanks for doing this, Aaron.
Sam
Hey folks,
We just finished some updates that will take care of some compatibility issues with IE and other non Firefox browsers. If you were hesitant to use the tool before, now is a good time to give it a try.
Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/ Wikipedia user script page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/NICE
-Aaron Halfaker
Aaron Halfaker wrote:
AGK,
Good point. Our only concern is having to re-apply to the IRB. It seems that this change does not materially affect the general consent/installation process, so we pulled it out and will make it available upon requests from individuals.
-Aaron
AGK wrote:
Aaron,
Could the automatic installation section not simply be removed from the install.html page?
AGK
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