There's this study
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Construction_and_Application_of_Personality_Profile_Based_on_User_Behavior_in_Wikipedia>
but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from my
posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT).
In general, any kind of psychometric profiling of Wikipedia editors kind of
grosses me out. But as an armchair psychologist myself, as well as a
non-neurotypical individual, sure I'm happy to hypothesize that there are
many of us in the projects. It takes a certain mindset to find the process
of building an encyclopedia using 20-year old software paradigms to be
engaging ;)
- J
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM RhinosF1 - <rhinosf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Evening all,
I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in.
I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were
wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be
fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers, ADHD
and other simmilar conditions.
It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these users were
more likely to work in.
Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand there
isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want to
reveal this information and there is no clear reason for collecting the
information but if anyone knows of past research or has any information,
that would be helpful.
Stay Safe,
RhinosF1
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Thanks,
Samuel
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