Dear all,
we are a research team at the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) interested in the reasons and motives why participants are involved in Wikipedia as author, administrator, or software developer. We are also interested whether these reasons have changed over time.
We would like to invite you to answer our online survey, which is available at:
http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/
In this international version of the survey, we included a number of valuable ideas and suggestions we got from our survey of the German Wikipedia project a few weeks ago. We hope this study will
* provide statistical data and insight about Wikipedia, * encourage a helpful discussion between participants, and * reveal best practices for Wikipedia and related Open Content projects.
For more information and the current status of the study, please visit our website:
http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en
We would be very glad if
1. as many contributers as possible complete the questionnaire to allow reliable results and 2. if you could spread the link above or this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list.
If you have questions or suggestions regarding the study or the questionnaire, please don't hesitate to contact us. We're looking forward to your participation -- and thanks a lot for your time and input!
Best wishes from Germany,
Joachim Schroer Guido Hertel Dana Jäger Elisabeth Pfeiffer Nils Sauer