Given your interest in Wikipedia research, may I direct you to meta:Research and specifically meta:Research:Subject recruitment. You might find yourself with a better response rate and less people yelling at you. Wikipedia:Etiquette normally dictates that Wikipedia:Emailing users is used only in an emergency. Josh Parris 22:47, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Good grief. Even worse you did not explicitly identify your Wikipedia userid. We are only assuming that User:Ling JIANG is the same person that contacted us by email. In that email you had "Ling JIANG", "lingjiang2", "JIANG Ling". And there is a user LingJiang, so we're having to guess based on this userid's letter-casing and that it was created yesterday.
No link to your department, or a web page describing your research, or a web page for Prof. Christian Wagner or his department. (And BTW the convention of upper-casing last names is not that well known outside Asia)
The biggest problem with your project is that you explicitly reject participation by anyone who is concerned about their anonymity. By not permitting some means for people participating while staying anonymous, your study is flawed and broken from the start.
Wikipedians have been harassed at work and home and elsewhere, just because someone has taken a dislike to their writing/positions/participation on Wikipedia. It only takes one hateful person to turn your life upside-down. Why would we risk being 'revealed' for your project?
I don't think you know how difficult it is to preserve anonymity. Even visiting your web page reveals the person's location down to the street-level. (Google and other GeoIP companies can get to within half a block of my home I discovered one day)
As suggested above, please consult with people here at Wikipedia to see how it might be possible to accomplish your goals without risk to participants (real-life identity being revealed) or risk to your project (invalid from the start because the population is skewed). As you can now guess, Wikipedians have a lot of information to share, and are glad to do so (and might even help construct your questions!), but don't like being even accidentally threatened. Shenme (talk) 05:16, 15 February 2012 (UTC) (and, yes... 杯弓蛇影 bei1 gong1 she2 ying3 wiktionary:杯弓蛇影）
- Hi Sheme, thanks for your suggestion. Yeah, as you pointed out, the exclusion of anonymous participations is indeed a limitation for this study. In terms of the webpage for this study, since this survey is a pilot study of my first research topic as a junior student, I haven't yet carve it as a comprehensive research project. Thus, there is no such explanatory website for it so far. I will consider this issue as I gradually explore the whole picture of the research problem of interest. In addition, in the introduction of online questionnaire, there is a link for my supervision Prof. Christian Wagner. You can refer to this link (http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/staff/iscw) to get details about him. Ling JIANG (talk) 11:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Megapixie (talk) 09:02, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
ANI discussion archived at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive232#Users_spamming_using_email_feature_-_possible_IP_tracking_scam_-_see_User_talk:Ling_JIANG Josh Parris 02:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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Kevin (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Despite it being made clear to you, and your apparent agreement, that you need to work with the foundation or community before sending a significant number of emails, you have continued. For this reason I have temporarily blocked your account on the English Wikipedia, and your ability to send emails.
I see no evidence that you have made any effort to contact the foundation on meta: see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ling_JIANG - and I think the community has reservations about this research at the moment.
Once these are resolved you can proceed. To ask another administrator to reconsider this block use the {{Unblock}} template thus:
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I will be mentioning this block at the Admins' Noticeboard.
Rich Farmbrough, 01:36, 27 February 2012 (UTC).