James Sutton wrote:
My name is Jim Sutton and I'm undertaking research in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, UCL.
My research involves studying wiki usage, the reasons why individuals use wikis and the benefits/disadvantages of using wikis to manage knowledge.
I was wondering if you would agree to my analysing your contributions to Wikipedia. This will basically involve calculating how many times you've contributed to Wikipedia within the time period of a week.
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions should be needed to analyze any of them.
I was also wondering what your reasons are for using/contributing to Wikipedia.
The simple answer to that is that I am completely mad.
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