On 16 July 2014 12:39, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote: ...
I asked this researcher to discontinue the survey pending a check on the impact of it on the Wikipedia community. I said this because I feel they are out of compliance with even the soft suggestions in research that are available, and they know this.
Good point. If anyone wanted to research deletion discussion patterns and outcomes on the English Wikipedia or other projects, I could knock out a nice analysis using a little passive but intelligent bot work depending on their requirements. I'm easy to find.
I'm pretty sure this would be a lot cheaper in volunteer time or research time than creating surveys to answer very similar questions, particularly if the resulting report were freely published so that volunteers could give their "subjective value responses" to that instead.
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