Below is a message I received from one of the researchers requesting
support<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_n…>for
subject recruitment. I'm forwarding his questions because I think
they
get to the point of some of our discussions about sharing datasets and the
redistribution of manuscripts produced as a result of a study.
I'd like to recommend that Michael withhold his dataset until he feels
comfortable publishing it, but I have been advising him that he is unlikely
to get scooped on the results of a survey he performed. I don't feel
comfortable suggesting that he risk the rewards of his work against his own
judgement.
As for the reuse rights. It seems like we have discussed this and decided
that studies that simply come to RCom for help vetting their proposed
research would not need to provide rights to distribute the manuscript. As
a side-note, it is important that the language he references is changed to
specify that the right to "adapt" the manuscript is *not* passed on to the
Wikimedia Foundation. I'd like to tell him that this requirement does not
apply to him since he did not receive substantial support, but on the other
hand, he research plan involves contacting a rather large amount of
Wikipedians. Thoughts?
-Aaron
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Tsikerdekis <tsikerdekis(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: University Email account
To: Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
Hey Aaron,
first of all thanks for all the support with the project. I started
reviewing a couple of things so that i can have everything ready when the
time comes. I need your help with a couple of things.
First, i decided to publish the open data under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence. I
don't believe that there will be anyone that would actually claim the
research analysis as there own based on someone else's survey. I do hope
though that people might in the future reuse the data and cross-reference
it with data from other research surveys. Do you think i should put
anything in the data page like "data can be used for publishing in a
scientific journal after the author of the survey publishes the results
first"? Or does it sound dumb and i am being paranoid? :-)
The second thing is about the reuse rights "The author(s) of the manuscript
retains a non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt their
work, and grants WMF a non-exclusive right to do the same"
Most journals(if not all) grant an non-exclusive right for the author. I
have no idea how to grant the same right to the WMF. I can put WMF as a
co-author, but can you put an organization as a co-author? I could send an
email to the journal when the time comes but i was wondering if you already
know anything about it.
Mike
I am thrilled to announce that Melanie Kill (aka User:Drkill) – assistant professor at the University of Maryland and former Wikimedia Summer of Research fellow – just joined RCom-l as a new member of the committee. Her addition not only brings to the RCom a talented Wikipedia researcher (Melanie specializes in digital rhetoric with a focus on the history of the encyclopedia genre) but also bumps our female membership to an all-time record of 36.3%.
Melanie, do you mind adding a short biographical blurb about yourself to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee?
Please join me in welcoming Melanie on board!
Dario
Daniel,
(cc'ing Phoebe)
can you help lead the drafting of WMF's response to this consultation?
Dario
Begin forwarded message:
> From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> Date: November 7, 2011 12:01:39 PM PST
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Open Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research
> Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
> to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
> technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
> development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
> publications. This process is relevant for shaping access to a major
> source of free knowledge, and such open access issues are of general
> interest to many of us. Comments are due in January.
>
> -- phoebe
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>
> The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has
> released two Requests for Information, one on public access to digital
> data resulting from federally funded scientific research and one on
> public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from
> federally funded research. Responses are due January.
>
> (1) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
> interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
> approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad
> public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally
> funded scientific research....Response Date: January 12, 2012...."
> http://goo.gl/L1jn3
>
> (2) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
> interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
> approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access
> to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally
> funded scientific research....Response Date:
> January 2, 2012...."
> http://goo.gl/vTP18
>
>
>
>
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For those of you who didn't make it to the RCom meeting last Thursday, I'd like to announce that Cheryl Moy has joined the committee as a new member.
Please join me in welcoming her on board! Melanie Kill, our other new RCom candidate, couldn't make it to the meeting due to a schedule conflict but we will try to change the calendar of our meetings to allow her to participate.
We had a quite productive meeting, you fill find detailed notes at: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/RCom201111
These are the main highlights:
Schedule of RCom meetings
Dana will run a new doodle poll to identify a new time slot for our future RCom meetings to take into account the time constraints of our new members (Melanie in particular mentioned that the current conflict is totally incompatible with her teaching commitments)
Subject recruitment
Dario and Aaron are working on new mechanisms to triage requests, have a minimum number of RCom participants in the review of each proposal, involve the community and formalize the review procedure in the case of subject recruitment requests.
Science WiR program
Cheryl, Daniel and Yaroslav will lead the development of a WiR program for research/scientific institutions broadly modeled after GLAM.
Research Index
Dario announced the redesign of the research project directory to increase the categorization of projects by various criteria.
Privacy policy review
In the context of the drafting of Wikimedia's new privacy policy, Dario will lead a consultation to engage with the wiki research community to try and understand (1) what Wikimedia data academic research would like to have access to and (2) whether these requests are compatible and can inform the drafting of the new policy
OA policy
Daniel will post a proposal to finalize
Expert participation
Dario will present new results from the expert participation survey at Science Online 2012 in a joint session with people involved in the APS initiative.
Wikimedia France research award
Rémi Bachelet and Carol Ann O'Hare from Wikimedia France are soliciting feedback from RCom on a new research award they are organizing to highlight the best research on WIkimedia projects. Please take a moment to review their proposal: http://framapad.org/Wikimedia-20France-20Research-20Award
Many thanks to everybody who participated!
Dario
Hey Everyone,
We (me and my colleague, Ayush) are working on the questionnaire for the
semi-annual editor survey. You can find the wiki for the survey here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2…
The plan is to survey the editing community to get their input on the health
of community, their experiences every six month, and we did the last survey
in April 2011 so it is time for a redo. The survey is very similar to the
April 2011 survey, just shorter and I added few questions based on my talks
with some folks at the foundation and I also used findings from the summer
of research as an input into this. You can read FAQ about the survey to find
out more.
I am hoping that some of you would take out time to provide us feedback on
the questionnaire.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_Novem…
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Mani
All,
Remi and Carol-Ann from Wikimedia France (cc'ed) are organizing a research award for Wikimedia research in 2012. They would love to have input from RCom (etherpad link at the bottom).
I copy also the communication people at WMF as they may have useful suggestions.
Dario
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Hello Everyone, Remi B (Board members) and Carol-Ann (education/research officer) of Wikimedia France here
WMFr wants to initiate an international research award on Wikipedia/free knowledge next year. Our goal is to reward and promote seminal research work on Wikimedia/free knowledge projects.
The idea started a while ago at WMFr, but we bootstrapped it on earnest only after we hired a research officer and it’s been in advanced discussion for weeks (after we outlined the project we had major intakes from Dario and our board). Now before any public launch, we would like to run the ideas with you, since this is definitely your area of expertise.
So we would like to have your intake on this idea, particularly regarding two questions 1/the award name and 2/ the potential jury members.
We are not members of this mailing (and thanks to Dario for forwarding this) so please refer to this etherpad for details and discussing ideas:
http://goo.gl/dAUp8
See you there !