Also RfC practice has varied dramatically over the years; and across wiki communities of different sizes; and varies strongly with the quality of the summary being commented on. In many contexts & scales it is ineffective; in others it can work well.
A good RfC leads to useful improvement almost all of the time, regardless of outcome. A bad one has the outcome "do nothing unless a supermajority of people agree with the proposal as initially written". You might also want to reach out to other collaborative communities -- other wikis, Loomio? IETF? -- for compraison of what they like and would change about their variations :) On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Jonathan Cardy < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Amy, > > That's an interesting topic, for your database you might want to just > filter your dataset for some outliers that start and close on the first of > April broadly construed (it is more than forty hours from when April Fools > day starts in New Zealand to when it ends in California). > > Regards > > Jonathan > > > > On 31 May 2017, at 20:40, Amy Zhang <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > We are preparing to conduct some research into the process of how > Requests > > for Comments (RfCs) get discussed and closed. This work is further > > described in the following Wikimedia page: https://meta.wikimedia.o > > rg/wiki/Research:Discussion_summarization_and_decision_ > support_with_Wikum > > > > To begin, we are planning to do a round of interviews with people who > > participate in RfCs in English Wikipedia, including frequent closers, > > infrequent closers, and people who participate in but don't close RfCs. > We > > will be asking them about how they go about closing RfCs and their > opinions > > on how the overall process could be improved. We are also creating a > > database of all the RfCs on English Wikipedia that have gone through a > > formal closure process and parsing their conversations. > > > > While planning the interviews, we thought that the information that we > > gather could be of interest to the Wikimedia community, so we wanted to > > open it up and ask if there was anything you would be interested in > > learning about RfCs or RfC closure from people who participate in them. > > Also, if you know of existing work in this area, please let us know. > > > > Thank you! > > > > Amy > > > > > > -- > > Amy X. Zhang | Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL | http://people.csail.mit.edu/ > axz > > | @amyxzh > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
