Hmm, it seems that soxred93's tools require opt-in... all the users I've tried to look up come back "non-existent." Bummer. :)
Just a note - I spoke at Wikimania in Gdansk about research ethics. The privacy policy is actually less stringent than the code of ethics that researchers generally adhere to. In all my work, I strive to respect and protect the well-being of my participants. I think this should be the norm for anyone doing research that involves people! (Also, I remember Fernanda's talk well, I was the trouble maker in the audience who asked her about whether the users they showcased had given consent ;)) Andrea On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > In Wikimania Boston, 2006, visualization experts [1] Fernanda Viégas en > Martin Wattenberg presented a tool which could produce a tag cloud from a > person's edit history. Tag clouds were a novelty and very suitable for the > matter at hand. You could see at a glance that editor Johanna Doe was mainly > engaged in articles about say classic music, and Chinese and Iran politics, > which is OK of course, but maybe better left to the person to disclose at > her own discretion. We discussed implications of the visualization: on one > hand this was all data from the public dumps, and anyone could make such a > script once the idea spread, on the other hand would it be wise to help > facilitate this process. I later found out they decided not to publish the > tool for this very reason. > > [1] See first two entries on http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/ > > Erik Zachte > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fae > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:45 > To: [email protected]; Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] edit counts for specific users > > Hi, > > Please take care to stay within the policy stated at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy - if you are researching in > general there is no issue but if you are analysing/data mining a specific > editor's contributions it should be for a recognized bureaucratic purpose. > > Cheers, > Fæ > -- > http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae > > > -- :: Andrea Forte :: Assistant Professor :: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University :: http://www.andreaforte.net _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
