Re: [Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English Wikipedia

On 3 January 2018 at 12:17, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 2 January 2018 at 23:29, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > >> This is just a heads-up that English Wikipedia has adopted a new policy[1] >> about research on that project. > I have concerns, which I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English WikipediaWiki-research-l Digest, Vol 149, Issue 1

Interesting question. I'll bite :-) From reading what I hope the pertinent sections of the research paper (I didn't read it all), the research required new Wikipedia articles to be written on topics in chemistry and econometrics. These Wikipedia articles were not written by the researchers

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English WikipediaWiki-research-l Digest, Vol 149, Issue 1

Hi Jonathan, Can you please give a concrete example of what, for example, the http://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/SSRN-id3039505.pdf researchers would have had to do differently under this new policy? Best regards, Jim > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:29:03 -0800 > From: Jonathan

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English Wikipedia

On 2 January 2018 at 23:29, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > This is just a heads-up that English Wikipedia has adopted a new policy[1] > about research on that project. >1. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_laboratory I