Research talk:Wikimedia Research Best Practices Around Privacy Whitepaper/Draft

Questions for the Wikipedia Communities and Arbitration Committees

In particular, from this group we are seeking input on the following questions:

1. Starting with a review of some of the basics we've sketched so far in the white paper draft, what should the recommendations be for Wikipedians (section 4.2)? What is missing?

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2. What values do you think should be mentioned in Section 3.1 'Understanding key values of Wikipedians'? What community essays, policies, or guidelines should be referenced in communicating key values of Wikipedians?

• The Biographies of Living People (BLP) policy [1], at least on enwiki our privacy practices are primarily just an application of BLP to active editors (all presumably living people). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:13, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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3. What do you see as missing, if anything, as recommendations for researchers?

• We can and should be expecting researchers who wish to engage with us to be aware of relevant ethics standards (including privacy and transparency activities; things like pre-registration, ethics boards, etc, etc) in their fields of research. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:45, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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4. Where would you like to see future work on this topic? What opportunities should be highlighting for researchers to examine more deeply?

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5. Do you have ideas about how we can address one or more of the "TODO"s we have listed throughout the draft?

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Questions for researchers

In particular, from this group we are seeking input on the following questions:

1. What recommendations are unclear, and maybe therefore unhelpful, for you?

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2. What questions do you still have about privacy on Wikipedia after reading this?

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3. Do you have ideas about how we can address one or more of the "TODO"s we have listed throughout the draft?

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