Thanks. Can you explain why you continue to solicit submissions for your
review, and promise a 1-2 week turn around time, when it appears that the
review process rarely occurs and many (if not most) submissions are not
reviewed?


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't believe there is any claim of authority for RCOM.  At least I was
> not involved in making claims that it is required and I do not see it as
> such.  In fact, I have argued in the past that studies run by Wikipedians
> won't gain much from the process[1]. However, I do recommend that academics
> -- especially those who do not otherwise engage with Wikipedians -- to work
> with an RCOM member to coordinate a review in order to ensure that you
> won't see massive push-back when you start recruiting on Wikipedia -- as
> studies tended to see when they were run before the process.
>
> 1.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship#English_Wikipedia_AGAIN
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aaron, what's the source of authority for RCOM (or its members acting
>> independently) to perform a review procedure and claim it is required?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Re. RCOM and review processes, these are two different things.   RCOM is
>>> an old, defunct WMF sanctioned working group of staff, researchers and
>>> Wikipedians.  If we want to revive RCOM, it seems like this should be
>>> discussed in another thread.
>>>
>>>>
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