[Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

Hi James,

actually, I am pretty sure we did discuss the procedure which requires
endorsement (we did not call it approval), either at the extraordinary
meeting in December (related to the survey banner story) or in the RCom
mailing list in the thread related to the same story. And this is indeed
practice established a long time ago, when we realized that uncontrolled
solicitation to fill in research forms leads to the situation when only a
small share of population is interested in filling the forms in, and they
are very quickly exhausted. The discussions are documented (though,
admittedly, they may be not documented in an optimal way).

I also strongly suggest you do not call other people liars unless you have
very strong proofs (which you do not). If you continue, I will have to als
the moderators to restore civility on the lists. Thanks for your
understanding.

Cheers
Yaroslav

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:11:07 -0600, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> James, I think I have replied consistently to your requests, both on
wiki
>> and by mail....
> 
> Anyone can judge for themselves whether this is true by looking at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:FAQ
> 
> There you claimed that research approval was a mandatory policy, and
> much more recently you thanked a third party for an edit which clearly
> implies that it is strictly mandatory. But in September 2010 you
> agreed with the rest of the RCom that research subject recruitment
> approval should not be mandatory in favor of published guidelines
> instead. And when called on the inconsistency, you wrote that approval
> is not in fact mandatory. Both can not be true.
> 
> Instead of apologizing for your lie with which you attempted to impugn
> my integrity, you have been trying to cover it up with rhetoric.
> 
> Is that behavior considered acceptable at the Wikimedia Foundation?
> 
> Sincerely,
> James Salsman
> 
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