Hi all,
this email to announce the publication as open data of the dataset of
the answers collected in June - July on 8 languages of wikipedia.
Feel free to use it and to ask (enquetes(a)marsouin.org) if some things
are not clear enough to use it (or simply if you have ideas to share!)
https://hal.science/hal-04279803
The research is presented here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveying_readers_and_contributors…
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The dataset focuses on Wikipedia users and contains information about
demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and
their activity on Wikipedia. The data was collected using a
questionnaire available online between June and July 2023. The link to
the questionnaire was distributed via a banner published in 8 languages
on the Wikipedia page. Filling out the questionnaire was voluntary and
not incentivised in any way.
The survey includes 200 questions about: what people were doing on
Wikipedia before clicking the link to the questionnaire; how they use
Wikipedia as readers (“professional” and “personal” uses); their opinion
on the quality, the thematic coverage, the importance of the
encyclopaedia; the making of Wikipedia (how they think it is made, if
they have ever contributed and how); their social, sport, artistic and
cultural activities, both online and offline; their socio-economic
characteristics including political beliefs, and trust propensities.
More than 200 000 people opened the questionnaire, 100 332 started to
answer, and constitute our dataset, and 10 576 finished it. Among other
themes identified by future researchers, the dataset can be useful for
advancing the research regarding the features of readers vs contributors
of online commons, the relationship between trust, information, sources,
and the use made of this information.
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Nicolas Jullien
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Professeur / Professor.
IMT Atlantique, Brest lab. M@rsouin/LEGO
Direction scientifique de
Marsouin.org
Animateur de la communauté scientifique IMT Transformation durable des
organisations