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I know that many of the people I've talked to at my college prefer the spoiler warnings, but I'll admit that this is purely anecdotal and not statistically valid. It's hard to see how we'd acquire statistically significant data regarding Wikipedia policies among the general Wikipedia-reading public.
joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
On 16/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
See http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6424&p=147306#p147306
In retrospect I'm not sure why no one did this before. The sample isn't exactly representative (since it is xkcd fora). But one interesting thing seems clear; the public prefers spoiler warnings on Wikipedia and uses them.
Well... thirty people on an internet forum prefer spoiler warnings and use them. I'm not entirely sure we can generalise from that to "the public" with any degree of confidence.
That's true. The sample size is very small. But considering that one argument made in favor of spoiler removal was that the spoiler-removal was favored by the public this preliminary data doesn't seem to back that up at all and if anything shows the other direction.
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