There's this study https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Construction_and_Application_of_Personality_Profile_Based_on_User_Behavior_in_Wikipedia but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from my posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT).
In general, any kind of psychometric profiling of Wikipedia editors kind of grosses me out. But as an armchair psychologist myself, as well as a non-neurotypical individual, sure I'm happy to hypothesize that there are many of us in the projects. It takes a certain mindset to find the process of building an encyclopedia using 20-year old software paradigms to be engaging ;)
- J
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM RhinosF1 - rhinosf1@gmail.com wrote:
Evening all,
I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in.
I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers, ADHD and other simmilar conditions.
It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these users were more likely to work in.
Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand there isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want to reveal this information and there is no clear reason for collecting the information but if anyone knows of past research or has any information, that would be helpful.
Stay Safe, RhinosF1 -- Thanks, Samuel _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l