Dear friends,

for some time already, I do not manage to find enough time to get engaged in the activities of this committee. Given my priorities in academic research, and the fact that the time pressure they generate is not going to get any lighter in the near future, I believe that the best thing to do is to withdraw from the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee at this moment.

I have made changes to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee to reflect my decision to withdraw; User: GoranM is now found in the "Former members" section.

I wish you all the best in you future work. Wikimedia Foundation spawned a set of magnificent ideas and projects. You are shaping the future. Keep up the good work!

Best,

Goran S. Milovanović

P.S. If any of you have interests in human choice under risk and uncertainty, you might take a look at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362756. The paper is currently under review.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey folks,

There's a new study[1] seeking approval from RCom to engage in subject recruitment on English Wikipedia.

TL;DR:
Who: PhD Student from University of Washington (with IRB approval)

What: Wants to understand the perspectives of female editors with regards to the experience of editing Wikipedia, dealing with masculine culture, etc.
How: Goal is 20 interviews. Starting with snowball sampling though informant Jonathan Morgan (a Learning Strategist @ the WMF) continuing with user talk page posts if snowballing is insufficient.

I've gone through the motions of ensuring that the study is well documented and I've started a straw poll at the bottom of the talk page[2]. Please take a look to see if I missed anything and add your vote. Thanks!

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Women_and_Wikipedia
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Women_and_Wikipedia#Straw_poll:_Is_this_research_project_ready_for_RCom.27s_approval.3F

-Aaron

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