On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm also working on them to produce something convincing us of the value of their work since there have been ~eleventy billion surveys of Wikipedians about their motivations. 

+1 to this. There have been tons of surveys that include motivational questions, and you can probably compare people with different experience levels using that data as well. 

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