On 22/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I was wondering if you would agree to my analysing your contributions to Wikipedia. This will basically involve calculating how many times you've contributed to Wikipedia within the time period of a week.
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions should be needed to analyze any of them.
In no particular order...
a) politeness; b) complying with research ethics requirements; c) value-addedness - if you're analysing specific users, and they have consented to work with you, you can query them about details.