Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, I'm sorry to jump into the conversation late. Dario, thanks for relaying my status. 10 days may be the longest I've been away from the internet since I discovered it as a child. I had a substantial hand in building all of the listed subject recruitment documents, so I can assure you

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread Dario Taraborelli
WSC: +1, I like the idea Just a quick note that Aaron (the author of the recruitment policy proposal) is currently traveling and may not be able to chime in until next week. On Jul 19, 2012, at 2:28 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > The current system is not ideal, but I would suggest we need a fe

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread WereSpielChequers
The current system is not ideal, but I would suggest we need a few more active participants rather than to subdivide a fairly quiet team. A while ago I did the second review at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Women_and_Wikipedia:_Contributions_in_a_Collaborative_Online_Spaceand am st

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi Yaroslav, What we are discussing are alternatives to the current procedure, rather than specific requests for approval of recruiting. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recruitment_policy, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group, https://meta.wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Pine, I do not think it is correct. The proposals requiring SR discussions are being announced on Rcom mailing list, and then it is just a matter of who is available. For instance, for the last proposal I was traveling, and then I saw that it has already been reviewed, and there is nothing

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread ENWP Pine
ation Research Committee mailing list Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group hi Pine, BlueRaspberry and I ("pundit") had a discussion about this recently and it seems we're ready to make a proposal for the community consideration, if ther

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
hi Pine, BlueRaspberry and I ("pundit") had a discussion about this recently and it seems we're ready to make a proposal for the community consideration, if there is interest. best, dariusz On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > Hi Pine, > > that's correct, we discontinued

Re: [Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Hi Pine, that's correct, we discontinued the bi-monthly meetings for a number of reasons even though many activities that fall within the scope RCom continued silently over the last months (project/subject recruitment request reviews; monthly publication of the research newsletter; open access

[Wiki-research-l] RCom and the Subject Recruitment Approvals Group

2012-07-19 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi Dario, I have a couple of questions. Are the RCom pages still being updated? I’m seeing some outdated stuff there, and http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/RComMonthlyReports2012 seems to indicate less activity since March. Did RCom ever reach conclusions about standards for recruiting Wikimedian