On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > In a different thread, Sue Gardner wrote: >> * Thanks Milos for advocating on behalf of a permanent Research Analyst! I >> want this too. > > An aside : many researchers in the community (of readers, if not > editors) are interested in research of almost any type associated with > WP/WMF data, and would love to do research of interest to the > projects. If we organize some sort of regular recognition for > excellent research done on/about WM projects, and improve access to > the sorts of data that research groups lust after, this will help tap > into the latent university interest [which comes with its own > sustained staff and funding, new pools of people to give talks at > different sorts of conferences and events, &c]. This does require > work - despite the theoretical transparency and accessibility of > project data, publish few good papers to date. [Rut, how many fellow > students of yours are getting wiki PhD's?] > I definitely agree with this. We have had attempts at this: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_Network * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Coordinator * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
I'm not sure what exactly happened, but there is not really any organisation left -- we just still have the mailing list which gets some posts every now and then. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
