Hi Dario, The combination of the choices: Strongly discourages me Discourages me Neither motivates me nor discourages me Motivates me Strongly motivates me No answer With statements such as: Editing Wikipedia may undermine my scientific reputation Leaves no option for people who don't consider that editing Wikipedia would harm their Academic reputation. I suspect that few people are motivated or strongly motivated to edit by the prospect of damaging their scientific reputation. But I would hope that some if not most would consider that Editing Wikipedia would not undermine their scientific reputation (providing that is that they edited responsibly). I think a more useful and neutral question would be to ask if people agreed or disagreed with the statement Editing Wikipedia may undermine my scientific reputation Though I'd prefer something much more along the lines of If you were to edit Wikipedia, what effect do you think this would have on your scientific reputation? Very negative - negative - neutral/no effect - positive - very positive Regards WereSpielChequers On 9 February 2011 14:13, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello together, the survey has been collecting data for a few days now, yet the responses so far came mainly from people already in Web 2.0 platforms (especially Twitter, Facebook and Wikimedia projects). We would appreciate if you could help spread the word about it in other places. Below comes some (CC0) sample text that you can use or build on. Thanks and cheers, Daniel ===== Wikipedia is increasingly used by university students for "pre-research", to gain context and explore ideas for course assignments and research projects [1]. Yet many among scientists, academics and other experts are reluctant to contribute to Wikipedia, despite a growing number of calls from the scientific community to join the project [2-3]. The Wikimedia Research Committee [4] has just launched a survey to understand why scientists, academics and other experts do (or do not) contribute to Wikipedia and other collaborative projects, and whether individual motivation aligns with shared perceptions of Wikipedia within expert communities. We hope this may help us identify ways around barriers to expert participation. The survey is anonymous and takes about 20 min to complete. Please help us circulate the link among your colleagues and collaborators: http://bit.ly/ExpertBarriers Dario Taraborelli Panagiota Alevizou Daniel Mietchen [1] http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/ [2] http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/ [3] http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiat… [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee