Steven Walling wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and_Behavior
Does anyone know what this is? There was some discussion on the talk page, but that's now apparently been cleared away.
It's a joint study by some researchers from Sciences Po (in Paris) and Harvard's Berkman Center. Like most other projects, you can see other details at the list of research projects on Meta.[1]
The basic gist is that they're going to be running a survey for Wikipedians as part of their study. Participants will be paid (by the researchers, not the WMF) since it's quite a long survey, and there will be an option to donate your funds to the Foundation if you like.
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Ah, thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated. :-)
I put a link to this e-mail and to Meta-Wiki's "Research/Projects" page at the top of the talk page, so that will hopefully prevent future confusion: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=2496408&oldid=2495842.
John Vandenberg wrote:
This was mentioned back in January
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/063703.html
Ah, thanks. I'd had a tab open to remember to look into this and I'd completely forgotten how I'd come across it initially. I remember first thinking it was spam, to be honest. (Looking at the page's logs, it seems I wasn't the only one.) When I went to look at it again today and noticed the cleared talk page, I figured I'd just ask the list and that someone would surely know what was going on.
MZMcBride