Thanks Mathias, this is quite interesting. Yes the different methodologies
definitely makes things hard to compare.
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Den ons 25 okt. 2023 kl 13:00 skrev Mathias Schindler <
mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>gt;:
Hi Eric,
ARD and ZDF, Germany's public broadcaster, publish an annual
"Onlinestudie", a report on the usage of the Internet by people in Germany.
Starting in 2006-ish, they have included questions on the usage of
Wikipedia in their reports.
https://www.ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de/
The question is not always the same and in some years, they asked people
whether they use "online reference works such as wikipedia". In early
years, Wiipedia was usually seen as a "Web 2.0" service or as one odd child
in the social media family.
The usual (oversimplified) answer was that people in Germany use
Wikipedia, especially the younger audiences.
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On the methodology side, I have some reservations because I think these
surveys never took into account the affirmative bias. Even at peak times,
the idea of 5% of online users *actively* contributing to Wikipedia seemed
far far off.
Mathias
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:04 PM Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
Hi all,
About a week ago, the annual report "Swedes and the Internet" of 2023 was
released
<https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-internet-2023/>.
It is a comprehensive report by the Swedish Internet Foundation, with a
statistically representative selection of the Swedish population. The
report has included Wikipedia for many years, but this year, for the first
time I believe, it includes a specific chapter on Swedes' use of Wikipedia.
It would be really interesting to know if there are similar surveys and
reports from other countries. I'm thinking that, if there is, it would be
interesting to compile those surveys and see what general trends are
similar across countries. I think that it could eventually be an
interesting way of getting insights into similarities and differences in
readers' use of Wikipedia.
So I suppose my question is if you know of similar national surveys from
your countries and contexts, on how and by whom Wikipedia is used?
Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
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