Research:Committee/Draft research policy

The goal of this page is to draft a research policy for Wikimedia Foundation projects which can be recommended to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for review and approval. That approval would make it an official, non-negotiable policy for all Wikimedia projects. This is a working document primarily developed by the Research Committee, but contributions by others are welcome.

Draft policy

Recruiting subjects

• Codify some of the principles mentioned at Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Subject_recruitment_processes

Transparency

• List project in public directory

Ethics

• Compliance with relevant research codes
  • Incorporate some of the high-level points e.g. in http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis.cfm
• No destructive editing
• No spamming
• No overuse of limited resources
• Disclose conflicts of interest, other COI policy

Access to Wikimedia resources

• When should an open access requirement (and which) kick in? Or related requirements/ recommendations (e.g. publishing the code and data, to allow reproducibility)?

Draft resolution

• Should recognize value of research into Wikimedia content, projects, and communities
• Should officially recognize policy
• Should call upon communities to create corresponding pages/guidelines consistent with above policy