Heather, I am not sure who contribute that. Probably not Nemo. If this issue of newsletter is correctly attributed, the contributors include: Taha Yasseri, Maximilian Klein, Piotr Konieczny, Kim Osman, and Tilman Bayer. My suggestion is only a personal one, and I am not sure if it is against policies to make a few edits once the newsletter is out.
Thanks again to the contributors of the newsletter, my life is a bit easier and more interesting because of your work. 2014-07-02 15:35 GMT+07:00 Heather Ford <hfor...@gmail.com>: > +1 Thanks for your really thoughtful comments, Joe, Han-Teng. > > Nemo, would you be willing to add a note to the review and/or contacting > the researcher? > > Best, > Heather. > > Heather Ford > Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme > EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net> | Oxford Digital > Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> > http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> > > > > > On 2 July 2014 05:17, h <hant...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The tone of the sentence in question >> >> 'it is disappointing that the main purpose appears to be completing a >> thesis, with little thought to actually improving Wikipedia' >> >> could have been written as >> >> 'It would be more useful for the Wikipedia community of practice if >> the author discussed or even spelled out the implications of the research >> for improving Wikipedia". >> >> This suggestion is based on my own impression that [Wiki-research-l] >> has mainly two groups of readers: community of practice and community of >> knowledge. It is okay to have some group tensions for creative/critical >> inputs. Still, a neutral tone is better for assessment, and an encouraging >> tone might work a bit better to encourage others to fill the *gaps* (both >> practice and knowledge ones). >> >> Also, the factors such as originally intended audience and word >> limits may determine how much a writer can do for *due weight* (similar to >> [[WP:due]]). If the original (academic) author failed to address the >> implications for practices satisfactory, a research newsletter contributor >> can point out what s/he thinks the potential/actual implications are. (My >> thanks to the research newsletter's voluntary contributors for their >> unpaid work!) >> >> While I understand that the monthly research newsletter has its own >> perspective and interests different from academic newsletters, it does not >> sacrifice the integrity of the newsletter to be gentle and specific. I >> would recommend a minor edit to the sentence as the the newsletter could be >> read by any one in the world, not just the Wikipedians. It is >> public/published for all readers, and thus please do not assume the readers >> know the context of Wikipedia research. >> >> Best, >> >> han-teng liao >> >> >> 2014-07-01 19:37 GMT+07:00 Heather Ford <hfor...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Thanks so much for the newsletter [1]! Always a great read... >>> >>> But have to just say that comments like this: 'it is disappointing that >>> the main purpose appears to be completing a thesis, with little thought >>> to actually improving Wikipedia' [2] are really harsh and a little unfair. >>> The student is studying Wikipedia - they can hardly only be interested in >>> completing their thesis. We need to remember that researchers are at very >>> different stages of their careers, they have very different motivations, >>> and different levels of engagement with the Wikipedia community, but that >>> *all* research on Wikipedia contributes to our understanding (even if as a >>> catalyst for improvements). We want to encourage more research on >>> Wikipedia, not attack the motivations of people we know little about - >>> particularly when they're just students and particularly when this >>> newsletter is on housed on Wikimedia Foundation's domain. >>> >>> Best, >>> Heather. >>> >>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June >>> [2] >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June#.22Recommending_reference_materials_in_context_to_facilitate_editing_Wikipedia.22 >>> >>> Heather Ford >>> Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme >>> EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital >>> Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> >>> http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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