+1 Thanks for your really thoughtful comments, Joe, Han-Teng. Nemo, would you be willing to add a note to the review and/or contacting the researcher?
Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> On 2 July 2014 05:17, h <[email protected]> wrote: > The tone of the sentence in question > > 'it is disappointing that the main purpose appears to be completing a > thesis, with little thought to actually improving Wikipedia' > > could have been written as > > 'It would be more useful for the Wikipedia community of practice if > the author discussed or even spelled out the implications of the research > for improving Wikipedia". > > This suggestion is based on my own impression that [Wiki-research-l] > has mainly two groups of readers: community of practice and community of > knowledge. It is okay to have some group tensions for creative/critical > inputs. Still, a neutral tone is better for assessment, and an encouraging > tone might work a bit better to encourage others to fill the *gaps* (both > practice and knowledge ones). > > Also, the factors such as originally intended audience and word limits > may determine how much a writer can do for *due weight* (similar to > [[WP:due]]). If the original (academic) author failed to address the > implications for practices satisfactory, a research newsletter contributor > can point out what s/he thinks the potential/actual implications are. (My > thanks to the research newsletter's voluntary contributors for their > unpaid work!) > > While I understand that the monthly research newsletter has its own > perspective and interests different from academic newsletters, it does not > sacrifice the integrity of the newsletter to be gentle and specific. I > would recommend a minor edit to the sentence as the the newsletter could be > read by any one in the world, not just the Wikipedians. It is > public/published for all readers, and thus please do not assume the readers > know the context of Wikipedia research. > > Best, > > han-teng liao > > > 2014-07-01 19:37 GMT+07:00 Heather Ford <[email protected]>: > >> Thanks so much for the newsletter [1]! Always a great read... >> >> But have to just say that comments like this: 'it is disappointing that >> the main purpose appears to be completing a thesis, with little thought >> to actually improving Wikipedia' [2] are really harsh and a little unfair. >> The student is studying Wikipedia - they can hardly only be interested in >> completing their thesis. We need to remember that researchers are at very >> different stages of their careers, they have very different motivations, >> and different levels of engagement with the Wikipedia community, but that >> *all* research on Wikipedia contributes to our understanding (even if as a >> catalyst for improvements). We want to encourage more research on >> Wikipedia, not attack the motivations of people we know little about - >> particularly when they're just students and particularly when this >> newsletter is on housed on Wikimedia Foundation's domain. >> >> Best, >> Heather. >> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June >> [2] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2014/June#.22Recommending_reference_materials_in_context_to_facilitate_editing_Wikipedia.22 >> >> Heather Ford >> Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme >> EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital >> Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> >> http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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