Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
Dario Taraborelli wrote: > >... due to the lack of a formal policy, the RCom has never been > in a position to grant any kind of "definitive approval" to recruit > participants I appreciate that clarification, but it strictly contradicts this edit from 11 days ago: http://meta.wikimedia.org/

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK Communications Manager

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Symonds
All, We’re happy to announce our fourth employee at the UK chapter – Stevie Benton. Stevie will be taking on the communications role for the charity. He has worked in non-profit communications for over eight years in a variety of disciplines, including internal communications, press, online a

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
Lane, Thanks for your message: > James: I made the edit stating the research should get approval, > and I did that by jumping into the game and just making the edit > based on what I read in discussion boards. I did not consider it > to be a new requirement For the benefit of those who haven

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread Dario Taraborelli
James, I think I have replied consistently to your requests, both on wiki and by mail, stressing that this is the de facto standard procedure that was introduced with the creation of the RCom, pending a formal (as in voted) policy, and that the expectation is for whoever runs a survey or subjec

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Hi Lane, your proposed workflow is a good description of how I would like the SR procedure to function in an ideal world. I am not myself at the forefront of SR discussions, but I'd definitely like to see a more streamlined process and a better way of signaling to participants which projects ar

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
Dario Taraborelli wrote: > James, I think I have replied consistently to your requests, both on wiki > and by mail Anyone can judge for themselves whether this is true by looking at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:FAQ There you claimed that research approval was a mandatory pol

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi James, actually, I am pretty sure we did discuss the procedure which requires endorsement (we did not call it approval), either at the extraordinary meeting in December (related to the survey banner story) or in the RCom mailing list in the thread related to the same story. And this is indeed p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > actually, I am pretty sure we did discuss the procedure which requires > endorsement (we did not call it approval), either at the extraordinary > meeting in December (related to the survey banner story) or in the RCom > mailing list in the thread related to the same s