Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Hello, > > I am re-posting here because I thought people might be interested in a > proposal > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Wikipedia_research_review > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Wikipedia_research_review>) > that my lab-mates and I have been working on. The gestalt of the > proposal is that Wikipedia needs a review system to both protect itself > from questionable research activities and to allow good research to take > place within the system. Currently research involving anything other > than the database snapshots is difficult because there is no formal > policy related to research within Wikipedia.
This would be useful if it would be replacing institutional IRBs. Otherwise, its just adding another layer of bureaucracy (and I don't even want to think what would happen if Wikipedia IRB would disagree with my university IRB...). -- Piotr Konieczny _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
