There are two policy/guideline working drafts on en.wp that Stuart was referring to. They could use really input.
- Research policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Research - Passed RFC and became policy for about 15 minutes before being nominated for deletion - Plenty of discussion on the talk page about what should be done next - Subject Recruitment Approvals Group (SRAG): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SRAG - Was a guideline for 15 minutes along with WP:Research - Most of the discussion about SRAG is @ WP:Research -Aaron Halfaker GroupLens Research University of Minnesota On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Cormac Lawler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 May 2010 18:27, R.Stuart Geiger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings wiki researchers, >> >> Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing >> yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good >> panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme would >> be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more >> likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will talk >> about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community >> norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and there >> are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research, archival/data >> privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build >> a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough >> interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be >> organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also open >> to other ideas if other people have them. >> >> So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this, >> please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I >> just realized that the deadline is the 20th. >> > > > Yes, definitely interested, Stuart - particularly in the topic of > public/private spaces and the use of data from them. Also in the > relationship between research ethics and researchers' participation in the > community. > > Cormac > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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