On 11/30/06, Josef Kolbitsch <josef.kolbitsch(a)tugraz.at> wrote:
I have been doing research on Wikipedia for about 2.5
years, and I have
met many users of Wikipedia that had no idea that it was not authored
by experts
The aspect that is differenciating between Wikipedia and, hmm, let's
say Britannica is not the question of experts editing. At Wikipedia,
experts are editing without payment and secondly, the expert does not
have to prove his skills before he/she is granted write access to
Wikipedia. In the past years of my work, I have met quite a lot of
people who don't have the slightest idea how traditional encyclopedias
are written.
and that the information provided might actually be
incorrect. Therefore I am planning to do a questionnaire on the
"Awareness of Wikipedia's Concept" (or something like that).
[...]
Any comments?
Sounds like a great idea and I would love to see the results. It might
be useful to see if the people answering the questionaire show any
"Awareness of the concept of an encyclopedia" at all and the reality
of traditional style encyclopedias at the market.
Have fun,
Mathias