I think it will be important that you don't participate in your own review as a member of RCom in order to avoid a COI. Otherwise I don't this as a problem. Anyone else have an opinion on the matter?
-Aaron
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Goran Milovanovic < goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com> wrote:
Thx Aaron - got it. Ok, let's see how this one goes.
BTW, it's been a while since I have started planning a social science study on Wikipiedians, and it might be possible that at some point I will need subject recruiting. I am at the beginning of the process so we're talking months here before I actually decide to conduct the study. Does my membership in RComm interferes with doing a Wikipedia related research on my own? Please advise.
Best, Goran
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.comwrote:
That's massive as far as editors are concerned in enwiki. The closest applicable policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS) only makes general statements about what might be considered a "Mass posting", but I'm pretty sure that Wikipedians rarely expect to see a user go from a single digit edit count to 500 from User_talk page postings in the course of a day.
Although I don't expect this to be truly disruptive to editors, I expect that many alarms will go off when the talk postings begin to be posted since the activity will be so unusual.
-Aaron
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Goran Milovanovic < goran.s.milovanovic@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok Aaron, I am on it. I don't see any problem with this research and my vote to go on with it (changed on the project's talk page already made).
BTW: "...since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300 responses needed)." Q: what is "massive" in the recruitment request for 200-300 respondents online?
Best, Goran
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Aaron Halfaker < aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
I was hoping to close this poll hours ago, but we only have three members of RCom participating (thanks Yaroslav and Steven!).
It is absolutely crucial that if we end up technically approving this study methodology that such approval actually reflects the consensus of RCom members.
For your benefit, I'll summarize the proposed plan:
A request to participate in a *survey* about enforcing conformance with community/group outcomes *needs 200-300 responses* from general Wikipedia editors. Invitations to take the survey will be posted an editors' User_talk pages. *A pilot set of 15 requests will be posted immediately* following approval from RCom to test for problems and determine the expected response rate. Afterwards, *up to 500 User_talk postings* will be made (depending on response rate) to illicit enough responses to give statistical confidence.
This is the first proposed project of this scale that we are reviewing for approval so I really want to make sure we are doing it right.
-Aaron
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Halfaker < aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
This proposal is an important milestone for our subject recruitment processes, since it represents the first mass recruitment request (200-300 responses needed). I'm hoping to either show a high level of support with this poll or discover what problems still need to be dealt with.
I'd like to close the poll by *Wednesday @ noon UTC*. Please make sure to chime in.
See poll: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_t...
-Aaron
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