Will you publish the raw data after finishing the paper?
yes, the dataset will be available on request as soon as the paper is published/in press. Guido Hertel (my supervisor/colleague) did just that with the data from his earlier Linux study.
It's not possible on server side because of caching but you could write
some JavaScript code that randomly shows a message (to anonymous users
only?). There are some geeks in the German Wikipedia that should know
how to write such JavaScript magic:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:BLueFiSH.as/Javascripts_%26_Stylesheets_von_Benutzern
The code will be activated if you convice the Community of Admins to add
it to
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.js&redirect=no
Thanks for the links, they are most helpful. I'm confident I'd manage to come up with a JS to display a link on every 10000th instance, but to integrate it into the existing framework seems to be more complicated... ;-)
In which languages do you want to do the survey?
I think it should be in English, because more contributors participated in the international survey.
I'm very interested but
a little but disappointed because your results are not published yet.
The American Psychological Association (APA) is extremely strict when it comes to publishing empirical results in one of their journals -- which we intend to do. One has to avoid every impression that those or similar results were published somewhere else before. Basically, I think that is a good policy, but you'd better check twice or three times before "going public".
That said, I will have an English presentation of the results ready by the end of next month, which I am going to present at the "General Online Research" conference (
http://www.gor.de/
) in March. I believe that this presentation file would be a suitable format to inform participants about the results.
How about an open survey where the raw data is published and everybody
can analyse it?
Once the paper is published, the data from this next planned survey would of course be available on request as well (see above).