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.
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Josef Kolbitsch
Graz University of Technology
Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz | Phone: +43-316-873 6889