[Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

Sat Dec 10 11:57:35 UTC 2011

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:10, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dario Taraborelli, 10/12/2011 04:51:
>> • Is the Foundation running ads?
>> No, this banner is a recruitment campaign for a research project that has been thoroughly reviewed by the Research Committee. We have a long tradition of supporting recruitment for research about our communities via various sitenotices. The methodology of this project is sound and the recruitment method less invasive than thousands of individual messages posted on user talk pages. We believe this research will help advance our understanding of the dynamics of participation in our projects. Receiving support by the Research Committee implies that all published output and anonymized data produced by this study will be made available under open licenses. [12] The banner also received full Wikimedia Foundation approval before its launch.
>
> I think that this should be made more explicit: we shouldn't advertise
> any external initiative; when it comes to research projects, we should
> allow them to use our wikis and in particular the site notices only if
> they're joint projects (as much ours as theirs). This is the case here,
> because it's a research project of common interest where both parties
> have some gains and some duties, set with the Research committee and a
> signed agreement (IIRC). It's good that they will be explained better now.

the promise is: no ad. free knowledge. voluntary work, even with
errors, some waste or non-successes. the whole money inflow is based
on this promise. the whole content is created with this promise in
mind.

joint research projects redirecting to other web sites, using
different logos, than wikipedia related is obviously perceived
borderline. do we have the need to be borderline? imo there is no room
for discussion, the answer must be no. and no exception.

rupert.