On 28 Nov 2006 at 22:47 Joseph Reagle wrote:
A handful of students in a class I teach hadn't realized that the Wikipedia was 1) user written, 2) editable, or 3) discussable.
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 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). I have been putting this off because I am too busy at work at the moment. However, if time permits I will go ahead, do it, and make the results publicly available.
The questions I have been thinking about are rather simple (and I would like to keep it simple; comments appreciated):
(1) On the person:
- Male/Female - Age - Education - Computer literacy
(2) On Wikipedia:
- Do you know Wikipedia? - Do you use Wikipedia? - How often do you use Wikipedia? - You find an error in Wikipedia and would really like to have it corrected. What would you do? (Is this a leading question?)
Any comments?
Cheers, Josef.