On Mar 19, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
> 
> It sounds like a formal, publicized requirement for RCom approval for 
> recruitment of individual participants should be discussed at the next RCom 
> meeting.  I intend to make sure that happens.  In the meantime, if someone 
> who is more excited about the issue would like to open an RFC (on enwiki 
> preferably, since meta isn't well read), I'd be very happy to participate.  
> I'd humbly offer my work on 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group 
> and 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Research&oldid=361960951 
> as an example of one possible approach. 

This is a wonderful start, Aaron :) I would just add that right now the process 
is very much focused on quantitative research processes but it would be 
important to also imagine how this might fit into a qualitative / ethnographic 
research approaches as well. Permission processes should perhaps ask 
researchers to specify which methods they're using. Recruiting 10-20 editors 
over the course of a few months through wiki mail or on talk pages, for 
example, will look very different from large scale random sampling of editors 
across specific criteria.

Best,
Heather.

> 
> -Aaron
> User:EpochFail
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear James,
> 
> >> Instead of apologizing for your lie with which you attempted to impugn
> >> my integrity, you have been trying to cover it up with rhetoric.
> >>
> >> Is that behavior considered acceptable at the Wikimedia Foundation?
> 
> as a bystander non-involved in this particular issue, I find your
> rhetoric quite inflammatory. When you repeatedly speak of lies and
> attempts to impugn your integrity, you really do not encourage people
> to help you (even if you're right, which I doubt from perusing the
> diffs and the discussion). Quite honestly, I'd be quite skeptical
> about clearing out a project of a researcher who in the process of
> negotiating help and access to limited resources (after all, there is
> only X number of projects that can be addressed to Wikipedians) so
> confrontational. No offense meant.
> 
> best,
> 
> dariusz a.k.a. "pundit"
> 
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