Hello, I'd like to know just what other people's real experiences of Wikipedia are.
Specifically, *how you go about researching information, and to what lengths you have gone to do so, *how you tackle conflicts when they arise, and what types of conflict you find the most difficult to deal with, *if you have helped mediate a conflict between other users, *what you have learned through this process and *how learning is communicated throughout and between projects, whether by yourself or by others
This is to feed in to my research for an M.Ed. and also a paper for Wikimania - you can find out more from my w/en user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio I'm especially interested in new users' impressions as much as seasoned Wikipedians', and I'd also love to hear from a cross-section of languages. If you like, you can forward this message to individual project mailing lists.
Should you feel like answering some other questions you could see here if anything takes your fancy :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Wikipedia_as_a_learning_community You can answer on-wiki, in this thread, or maybe to keep from further overloading the archives, email me privately. I will keep this confidential as you wish.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Cormac / User:Cormaggio