I haven't received any other comments about using Special:EmailUser to contact 1000 users for a survey. I'd assume that many Wikipedians would take issue with such an approach.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_t...http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net&action=edit&redlink=1
-Aaron
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.comwrote:
I've just added some initial discussion to the talk page. This research would like to perform recruitment via Special:EmailUser. I'm not sure how I feel about that so I've summarized my thoughts on the matter and asked for input.
Also, I've added myself as the "WMF Contact", but I'm not officially WMF anymore. I wonder if we might change that field to RCom Contact or add a new field.
-Aaron
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com
wrote:
FYI, we have a new recruitment request. Please see the writeup ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_ne...) and discussion ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_t...http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net&action=edit&redlink=1 )
-Aaron
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michael Tsikerdekis < tsikerdekis@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dario Taraborelli & Aaron Halfaker,
I would like to bring to your attention a new research project that i posted on Wikipedia. The page can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_ne...
As i describe in the text the benefits for understanding the differences between complete anonymity, pseudonymity and when users use their emails can be tremendous for online communities and increasing collaboration.
I also attach to this email a draft(which i haven't proof read yet so errors can be present) which contains a more rigorous presentation of the concepts. In fact this draft is the planned version that eventually after fixing will be send to the publisher of the journal.
I need to note that the methods that i proposed are subject to change if they violate certain guidelines. Generally i will accept whatever changes you propose as long as they maintain the probability sampling method which is essential for better results.
Since the survey has already been developed. I am providing you with two links(if you need more i can give you more) so that you can see it for yourselves and judge(hopefully with good comments but constructive criticism is more than welcome) :-)
http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=17503006602 http://www.urcity.com/survey/index.php?user=45766208972
Thank you for taking the time to consider and i eagerly waiting to hear back from you :-)
Best regards, Michail Tsikerdekis PhD student at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics Brno, Czech Republic