Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting 2011-02-25

Friday 25 February, 6pm UTC
Notes and agenda: http://www.doodle.com/8y92aixw3mhi9s3h

Attendees

• Mayo (MFM)
• WereSpielChequers (WSC)
• Ziko (ZvD)
• Aaron (AA
• Yaroslav (YB)
• Diederik (DvL)
• Zack (ZE)
• John (JR)
• Erik (EM)
• Giota (GA)
• Dario (DT), hosting

Agenda

Updates from priority areas

• Research and Subject recruitment policies (AA)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research

• OA policy (DM)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-access_policy

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Significant_support

• Expert Barriers Survey (DT, DM, PA)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest/Expert_involvement/2011_survey

Research project directory

• Scope & organization (DT, EM)
• Template for research projects (MFM)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_for_research_projects

Wikimedia research initiatives

• Strategic research panel
  • Wikimania 11, Haifa, IL
  • WebSci 11, Koblenz, DE (DT)
  • WikiSym 11, Mountain View, CA (DT)
• Data challenge: datasets needed!
  • Kaggle (DvL)
  • WikiSym 11, Mountain View, CA (DT)