Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

I've spent a half hour or so going through this, and it looks like Nathan is on the money here. If RCOM is as inactive as it seems (except where it concerns the research of RCOM members) then it is no great surprise that external parties eventually try to do an end-run around it. Unless an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

On 17/07/2014, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I've spent a half hour or so going through this, and it looks like Nathan is on the money here... +1 I admit to being embarrassed over believing that RCom is the process we should officially recommend to research projects. It

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hackathon EU 2015 QA session

Hi, several organizations have expressed an interest in organizing the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Europe. We are willing to announce the selected host at Wikimania, if possible at all. Let's have a QA to help candidates preparing better proposals with less effort. Monday, 21 July at 16:30 UTC

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

RCOM would perhaps be more active if there were clear terms for members? best, dj On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I've spent a half hour or so going through this, and it looks like Nathan is on the money here. If RCOM is as inactive as it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Hey folks, I appreciate your discussion here. However, you're unlikely to get any participation from actual wiki researchers on wikimedia-l See wiki-research-l[1], the mailing list for discussions of research. There's a thread referencing this discussion here[2]. I encourage you to continue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Hi Aaron, Are you sure that you can't make any kind of substantive reply here on this list, for the benefit of people who have been reading about it here but aren't subscribed to the wiki-research-l list? I note that you also have not addressed any of the concerns either on your talkpage or on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Nathan, I plan to address those concerns on the appropriate list. It's a public list. I'm drafting an email at the moment. If you're interested in wiki research, I encourage you to sign up to wiki-research-l. It's relatively low traffic for anyone used to wikimedia-l. -Aaron On Thu, Jul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Hello, At Wikimania in London August 6-7 there is a research meetup. Some RCOM people will be there. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014 I will be there all Thursday 7 August. Research ethics oversight is not the priority for this group and statistics

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Committee

Per directing the conversation here to wiki-research-l, I'd like to link to a post I made in the relevant thread there that describes the history of my work on subject recruitment support. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-July/003579.html Per Lane's comments, I look

[Wikimedia-l] US National Archives to upload all holdings to Wikimedia Commons

For those who may have missed the Signpost coverage: the US National Archives included Wikimedia in their 2014-2016 Open Government Plan. [1] [2] [3] According to the Signpost coverage, National Archives Wikimedian-in-Residence Dominic McDevitt-Parks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic said