Gerard M. says:
Dear Greg, This is not about criticism but about research. With respect I have not seen your research papers, I am not aware of your credentials that would make you a choice to be considered for being part of a research committee.
Given that the work of the committee includes work on policies that have to do with access to confidential data, it seems to me only natural that your status as being banned from several Wikis is an other reason why you are easily disqualified from participating in a research committee.
At that you have had your "test" several times and as a result you are a known entity. Thanks, GerardM
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Allow me to make you aware of my credentials, Gerard, since you asked "with respect".
I'm the Director of Market Research for a company valued at $52 billion. I've been making a living with market research for 18 years now.
One of my co-authored research papers was published in a scientific journal supplement: http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/data/183/3/DC1/1
I've written a white paper about research for public relations: http://www.icrsurvey.com/docs/MR%20for%20PR.doc
For the more casual reader, I've maintained an occasional blog on research since 2005: http://insidemr.blogspot.com/
And, I've conducted numerous informal but systematic research studies about Wikimedia properties: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Wikipedia_Vandalism_Study http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/http://toolserver.org/%7Emzmcbride/watcher/ (You'll have to ask around about that one.) http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Survey_about_Wikipedia (Currently, a bit slow-going on the analysis, due to editing parameters imposed on the Wikiversity community by Jimmy Wales)
I am curious about this "access to confidential data" of which you speak. This presupposes that other members of the vast Wikimedia community do currently have access to this confidential data. Have they been vetted in some way that you can be assured that they won't do something with that data more monstrous than what I would ever do with such data? I'm trusted with confidential customer account data by a $52 billion company.
****************** Meanwhile, D. Gerard says:
Trolling blogs probably isn't the best resume item, no. HTH!
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No, it's probably not, if only I were "trolling".
Hope that helps!
--- Greg
So your peer reviewed experience iiis. the co-authoring of a single paper published in a supplement? Less than say, a particularly good management undergrad. Forgive me; a director of marketing at that level does exactly how much direct marketing?
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
Gerard M. says:
Dear Greg, This is not about criticism but about research. With respect I have not seen your research papers, I am not aware of your credentials that would make you a choice to be considered for being part of a research committee.
Given that the work of the committee includes work on policies that have to do with access to confidential data, it seems to me only natural that your status as being banned from several Wikis is an other reason why you are easily disqualified from participating in a research committee.
At that you have had your "test" several times and as a result you are a known entity. Thanks, GerardM
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Allow me to make you aware of my credentials, Gerard, since you asked "with respect".
I'm the Director of Market Research for a company valued at $52 billion. I've been making a living with market research for 18 years now.
One of my co-authored research papers was published in a scientific journal supplement: http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/data/183/3/DC1/1
I've written a white paper about research for public relations: http://www.icrsurvey.com/docs/MR%20for%20PR.doc
For the more casual reader, I've maintained an occasional blog on research since 2005: http://insidemr.blogspot.com/
And, I've conducted numerous informal but systematic research studies about Wikimedia properties: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Wikipedia_Vandalism_Study http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/http://toolserver.org/%7Emzmcbride/watcher/ http://toolserver.org/%7Emzmcbride/watcher/ (You'll have to ask around about that one.) http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Survey_about_Wikipedia (Currently, a bit slow-going on the analysis, due to editing parameters imposed on the Wikiversity community by Jimmy Wales)
I am curious about this "access to confidential data" of which you speak. This presupposes that other members of the vast Wikimedia community do currently have access to this confidential data. Have they been vetted in some way that you can be assured that they won't do something with that data more monstrous than what I would ever do with such data? I'm trusted with confidential customer account data by a $52 billion company.
Meanwhile, D. Gerard says:
Trolling blogs probably isn't the best resume item, no. HTH!
No, it's probably not, if only I were "trolling".
Hope that helps!
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On 08/07/2010 01:30 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
So your peer reviewed experience iiis. the co-authoring of a single paper published in a supplement? Less than say, a particularly good management undergrad. Forgive me; a director of marketing at that level does exactly how much direct marketing?
I think that, as evidenced by his bans from several wikis, there is pretty wide consensus on the nature and value of Gregory Kohs's contributions to this project, so I don't think there's much benefit in stirring up yet another wing-ding along the lines of the previous ones.
I understand why it's tempting, but I'd ask all list participants to carefully consider the thousands of readers of this list before discussing this topic further. There are many good uses for this particular mailing list, but this is not one of them:
William
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