On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:10, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dario Taraborelli, 10/12/2011 04:51: >> • Is the Foundation running ads? >> No, this banner is a recruitment campaign for a research project that has >> been thoroughly reviewed by the Research Committee. We have a long tradition >> of supporting recruitment for research about our communities via various >> sitenotices. The methodology of this project is sound and the recruitment >> method less invasive than thousands of individual messages posted on user >> talk pages. We believe this research will help advance our understanding of >> the dynamics of participation in our projects. Receiving support by the >> Research Committee implies that all published output and anonymized data >> produced by this study will be made available under open licenses. [12] The >> banner also received full Wikimedia Foundation approval before its launch. > > I think that this should be made more explicit: we shouldn't advertise > any external initiative; when it comes to research projects, we should > allow them to use our wikis and in particular the site notices only if > they're joint projects (as much ours as theirs). This is the case here, > because it's a research project of common interest where both parties > have some gains and some duties, set with the Research committee and a > signed agreement (IIRC). It's good that they will be explained better now.
the promise is: no ad. free knowledge. voluntary work, even with errors, some waste or non-successes. the whole money inflow is based on this promise. the whole content is created with this promise in mind. joint research projects redirecting to other web sites, using different logos, than wikipedia related is obviously perceived borderline. do we have the need to be borderline? imo there is no room for discussion, the answer must be no. and no exception. rupert. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l