Right now, the "researcher" right process is sort of in limbo while we figure out a good way to assign that user group.
I think the best way to manage this is to have a community vetting process for allowing researchers to access the user right. Regretfully, we don't have one right now[1]. I think the best way to get access to such a right would be to document your research project on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_project> and then post on the discussion forums of the wikis you are targeting asking to be granted the "researcher" right. If you're targeting English Wikipedia, I'd suggest bringing this proposal to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 2:04 PM Leila Zia <l...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Mackenzie, > > Thanks for sharing more about your research here. > > Do you intend to request access to the deleted logs of specific > Wikipedia language editions or all Wikipedias? > > Best, > Leila > > -- > Leila Zia > Head of Research > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Mackenzie Lemieux > <mackenzie.lemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Wiki Community, > > > > My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the > Salk > > Institute for Biological Studies and I am interested in exploring biases > on > > Wikipedia. > > > > My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of > > flagging and deletion of pages for women in STEM. I hope to > > retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the > > biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the > past > > n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity of a large sample. > > > > It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion > log > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log>, but to actually > see > > the page that was deleted we need to be members of one of these Wikipedia > > user groups: Administrators > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Oversighters > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight>, Researchers > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers>, Checkusers > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser>. > > > > Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there > > anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need? > > > > Warmly, > > Mackenzie Lemieux > > > > > > -- > > Mackenzie Lemieux > > mackenzie.lemi...@gmail.com > > cell: 416-806-0041 > > 220 Gilmour Avenue > > Toronto, Ontario > > M6P 3B4 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
