Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting 2011-05-19

Date: Friday 19 May 2011, 12pm-1.30pm PDT
Planner: http://doodle.com/6uvmmq42ksi7yr9k
Notes: etherpad:RCom201105
Minutes of the meeting can be found here

Attendees

• Dario (DT), hosting
• Erik (EM)
• Steven (SW)
• Aaron (AH)
• Daniel (DM)
• WereSpielChequers (WSC)
• Ziko (ZvD)
• Yaroslav (YB)
• Dana (DI)
• Milos (MR)

Excuse non assistance for data incompatibility: Mayo Fuster Morell

Agenda

Subject recruitment

• A new draft policy proposal (AH)
• Approval procedure: a new role for RCom? (DT)

Meta:Research overhaul

• A new home for Wikimedia research (DT)
• On-wiki research (AH)
• Channelling requests to Research/Projects (DT)
• An open data repository for Wikimedia research (DT)
• Definition of "significant support" (DM)
• Matching WMF support and project requirements (DT)

External research initiatives

• Wikimania 2011
  • Participating in research projects (DV, DT)
  • Barriers and opportunities for expert participation in Wikipedia: Results from a survey (DM, DT)
  • An Open access and open data policy for WMF (DM/DT); Draft
• OKCon 2011
  • Workshop on Wikipedia & Research- Open Knowledge Conference 2011 (MFM)
• WikiSym 2011
  • Panel on wiki research literature
  • WikiViz: data visualization challenge

Organization of future meetings

• How to achieve a regular 1.5-month cycle for RCom meetings