Hi
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.
I was also wondering what your reasons are for using/contributing to Wikipedia.
I'd be extremely grateful for any feedback you can provide. If you agree to my analysing your contributions then please email me with your Wikipedia username.
I also have a survey online which I'm using as part of my research at:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/stqa7937/survey/
My Wikipedia username is Sutton4019 and my research is being carried out jointly with Melissa Terras at UCL. Her email address is m.terras@ucl.ac.uk .
If you have any questions please let me know and thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
Jim Sutton
Sounds fun, count me in! User:VanTuckyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VanTucky
On 6/21/07, James Sutton james.sutton@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Hi
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.
I was also wondering what your reasons are for using/contributing to Wikipedia.
I'd be extremely grateful for any feedback you can provide. If you agree to my analysing your contributions then please email me with your Wikipedia username.
I also have a survey online which I'm using as part of my research at:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/stqa7937/survey/
My Wikipedia username is Sutton4019 and my research is being carried out jointly with Melissa Terras at UCL. Her email address is m.terras@ucl.ac.uk .
If you have any questions please let me know and thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
Jim Sutton
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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.
Ec
On 6/22/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions should be needed to analyze any of them.
The research rules for his institution may require getting permission from the subject for the use of even publicly available information about them.
-Matt
Well, you can say you got permission from us (and from the Wikipedia policy). All logs are freely available. And sure, I'll join any polls you may have! Love that kind of thing.
-Salaskan
2007/6/23, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com:
On 6/22/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions should be needed to analyze any of them.
The research rules for his institution may require getting permission from the subject for the use of even publicly available information about them.
-Matt
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On 22/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
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.
In no particular order...
a) politeness; b) complying with research ethics requirements; c) value-addedness - if you're analysing specific users, and they have consented to work with you, you can query them about details.
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 22/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
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.
In no particular order...
a) politeness; b) complying with research ethics requirements; c) value-addedness - if you're analysing specific users, and they have consented to work with you, you can query them about details.
You're welcome to analyze mine if you'd like, and to ask any questions you may have. (My Wikipedia username is Seraphimblade.)