I would say this research *does* have value for the community.  The way in which people reason about dealing with issues and problematic people as a community with anonymity/pseudonymity is relevant to managing a community like Wikipedia.

If the researcher wants to randomly sample 1000 users, we could do that every day of the year without overlap if we could be intelligent about it.

-Aaron

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Diederik van Liere <dvanliere@gmail.com> wrote:
I have added my comments and I don't have any ethical objections.
However, I find this research of little value to the Wikipedia
community. It's generic online behavior and if we are going to open
our community for this kind of research then we will run out of
volunteers soon as well.
Best,
Diederik

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Aaron Halfaker
<aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> This one desperately needs review as well since the researcher is hoping to
> send over hundreds of emails to editors in order to solicit their
> participation.  I've added my thoughts to the talk page.
> -Aaron
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Dario Taraborelli
> <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>> this request is still marked as pending approval:
>>
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net
>>
>> I invite you to send your feedback or express any concern you may have
>> with this project by Friday, we'll flag it as reviewed otherwise.
>> Dario
>> On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
>>
>> This discussion fizzled out, but I'm hoping we could move it to the talk
>> page
>> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymity_and_conformity_over_the_net) to
>> reach a conclusion.
>> Dario & Steven, would you be willing to re-post your opinions there?
>> -Aaron
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Dario Taraborelli
>>> <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> agreed – emailing 1,000 users sounds borderline (we had a similar
>>>> discussion for another project, but that was recruiting from the most active
>>>> Wikipedians [1]). Any comment from other RCom community members?
>>>> Dario
>>>
>>> I would say that 1,000 people is too many to use the email function.
>>>
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