On 19 May 2010 18:27, R.Stuart Geiger <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings wiki researchers, > > Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing > yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good > panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme would > be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more > likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will talk > about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community > norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and there > are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research, archival/data > privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build > a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough > interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be > organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also open > to other ideas if other people have them. > > So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this, > please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I > just realized that the deadline is the 20th. >
Yes, definitely interested, Stuart - particularly in the topic of public/private spaces and the use of data from them. Also in the relationship between research ethics and researchers' participation in the community. Cormac
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