Announcement: Survey study on the categorization of contributors to Wikipedia - WikiEN-l

michael west

14 Feb 14 Feb

10:29 a.m.

On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn <jeroenkleyn(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available at: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. Your support would be greatly appreciated! With regards, Jeroen Kleijn

Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem.

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Bob the Wikipedian

3:44 p.m.

Mr. Kleijn-- Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than willing to participate. I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very difficult to write without leading the questionnee. God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:

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Hello, At first: thank you for replying. I've checked the grammar of the survey and made some corrections in the introduction. Although I can't see any grammar errors in the questions. Concerning your second point about vandalism I agree. The results (I've launched the survey last sunday) show that most of the respondents say that anonimity is not a problem but Wikipedia's greatest strength. But I'm still curious about this topic and would like to check it. Therefore, I hope that I could run the survey on the WikiEN list. Regards, Jeroen Kleijn Dear all,

I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available at: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. Your support would be greatly appreciated! With regards, Jeroen Kleijn

Op 14-02-11 11:29, michael west schreef:

On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn<jeroenkleyn(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available at: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. Your support would be greatly appreciated! With regards, Jeroen Kleijn

Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Bob the Wikipedian

18 Feb 18 Feb

8:26 a.m.

The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course, would focus more on exploring what we like about anonymity, as you've indicated you're seeing that unexpected trend. Sorry for the confusion! God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 10:41 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:

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Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. Do you mean that you are waiting on a new URL of the survey? I have edited the currenct survey so the URL given in my first email is still correct. Do I need to post the full message again before publishing (on the list), or will this be done by the moderators of the list? Sorry for the inconvenience, but maybe I misunderstood? Regards, Jeroen Kleijn Op 17-02-11 16:44, Bob the Wikipedian schreef:

Mr. Kleijn-- Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than willing to participate. I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very difficult to write without leading the questionnee. God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:

Hello, At first: thank you for replying. I've checked the grammar of the survey and made some corrections in the introduction. Although I can't see any grammar errors in the questions. Concerning your second point about vandalism I agree. The results (I've launched the survey last sunday) show that most of the respondents say that anonimity is not a problem but Wikipedia's greatest strength. But I'm still curious about this topic and would like to check it. Therefore, I hope that I could run the survey on the WikiEN list. Regards, Jeroen Kleijn Dear all,

I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available at: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. Your support would be greatly appreciated! With regards, Jeroen Kleijn

Op 14-02-11 11:29, michael west schreef:

On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn<jeroenkleyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning > Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that > investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of > Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will > help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. > > I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available > at: > > http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 > > To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia > who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. > The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To > allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible > complete > the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the > questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read > this list. > > Your support would be greatly appreciated! > > With regards, > > Jeroen Kleijn > > > Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Jeroen Kleijn

20 Feb 20 Feb

4:11 p.m.

Hi, Thank you for your advise and (very interesting) material. The reason for not carrying out another survey is that I need more responses on the same questions and therefore I would like to ask the listmembers for help. I want to collect more than 50 responses for my survey (currently I'm on 32). When you don't agree with the anonymity question I could delete this question from the survey, but I really would like to ask the other questions of the questionnaire. My main focus is on the characteristics and the level of innovation of the Wikipedian (Diffusion of Innovation theory). I was curious if the notion of anonymity of the veteran Wikipedian would be different from the idea of a relatively 'new' Wikipedian. Regards, Jeroen Op 18-02-11 14:11, WereSpielChequers schreef:

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Hi Jeroen, you might also want to look at some of the forks of Wikipedia such as Citizendium and Conservapedia and see how "successful" they have been with their policies of restricting IP editing and even pseudonymous editing. Also there was some discussion about this on the Strategy project. For example: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Less_anonymity http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Get_rid_of_the_global_anon… http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Require_all_new_user_Accounts_t… The big questions that proposals to end anonymity tend to founder on are: 1 How do you persuade "good editors" to go through an id verification process before they start editing? 2 If you skip the verification process how do you avoid the scenario where you haven't dissuaded any of the trolls and vandals who will happily give you a false name, but you have lost a large part of your good editors? 3 A lot of our editors are young. Some are very young. Is it ethical to encourage them to broadcast their identity on the Internet and create a permanent record of their adolescent views on many controversial topics? 4 Wikipedia was largely written by anonymous authors, would it be ethical to disown them now and prevent them from being part of the project? WereSpielChequers On 18 February 2011 08:26, Bob the Wikipedian <bobthewikipedian(a)gmail.com> wrote:

The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course, would focus more on exploring what we like about anonymity, as you've indicated you're seeing that unexpected trend. Sorry for the confusion! God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 10:41 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:

Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. Do you mean that you are waiting on a new URL of the survey? I have edited the currenct survey so the URL given in my first email is still correct. Do I need to post the full message again before publishing (on the list), or will this be done by the moderators of the list? Sorry for the inconvenience, but maybe I misunderstood? Regards, Jeroen Kleijn Op 17-02-11 16:44, Bob the Wikipedian schreef:

Mr. Kleijn-- Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than willing to participate. I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very difficult to write without leading the questionnee. God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote: > Hello, > > At first: thank you for replying. > > I've checked the grammar of the survey and made some corrections in the > introduction. Although I can't see any grammar errors > in the questions. Concerning your second point about vandalism I agree. > The results (I've launched the survey last sunday) show that most of the > respondents > say that anonimity is not a problem but Wikipedia's greatest strength. > But I'm still curious about this topic and would like to check it. > > Therefore, I hope that I could run the survey on the WikiEN list. > > Regards, > > Jeroen Kleijn > > Dear all, >> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning >> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which >> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of >> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will >> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. >> >> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available >> at: >> >> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 >> >> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia >> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. >> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To >> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible >> complete >> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the >> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read >> this list. >> >> Your support would be greatly appreciated! >> >> With regards, >> >> Jeroen Kleijn >> > > > Op 14-02-11 11:29, michael west schreef: >> On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn<jeroenkleyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning >>> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that >>> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of >>> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will >>> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. >>> >>> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available >>> at: >>> >>> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 >>> >>> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia >>> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. >>> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To >>> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible >>> complete >>> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the >>> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read >>> this list. >>> >>> Your support would be greatly appreciated! >>> >>> With regards, >>> >>> Jeroen Kleijn >>> >>> >>> >> Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to >> anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem. >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Jeroen Kleijn

22 Feb 22 Feb

10:17 p.m.

Hello, If you all agree with the survey I still would like to post the following message on the list. I really need some more response. Regards, Jeroen Dear all, I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available at: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. Your support would be greatly appreciated! With regards, Jeroen Kleijn Op 20-02-11 19:08, Bob the Wikipedian schreef:

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Well, as far as anon veterans go, I can't think of any specific ones offhand (but that's mainly due to the anonymity of it all!) but I encounter one every so often. I'm curious what inspires some Wikipedians to remain anonymous for several years, refusing to ever register, and requesting edits at the appropriate pages whenever they want to alter a protected page. Heck-- I got annoyed having to request intervention for editing protected templates and applied for adminship myself-- so I don't see what it is that keeps them going on the anon account. If it was a difference of whether your history of contributions was logged or not, then it would make sense, but contributions are logged for both anon and registered users, so that can't be it. I do applaud those who manage to remain anonymous for several years-- that's a hard way to edit! God bless, Bob On 2/20/2011 10:11 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:

Hi, Thank you for your advise and (very interesting) material. The reason for not carrying out another survey is that I need more responses on the same questions and therefore I would like to ask the listmembers for help. I want to collect more than 50 responses for my survey (currently I'm on 32). When you don't agree with the anonymity question I could delete this question from the survey, but I really would like to ask the other questions of the questionnaire. My main focus is on the characteristics and the level of innovation of the Wikipedian (Diffusion of Innovation theory). I was curious if the notion of anonymity of the veteran Wikipedian would be different from the idea of a relatively 'new' Wikipedian. Regards, Jeroen Op 18-02-11 14:11, WereSpielChequers schreef:

Hi Jeroen, you might also want to look at some of the forks of Wikipedia such as Citizendium and Conservapedia and see how "successful" they have been with their policies of restricting IP editing and even pseudonymous editing. Also there was some discussion about this on the Strategy project. For example: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Less_anonymity http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Get_rid_of_the_global_anon… http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Require_all_new_user_Accounts_t… The big questions that proposals to end anonymity tend to founder on are: 1 How do you persuade "good editors" to go through an id verification process before they start editing? 2 If you skip the verification process how do you avoid the scenario where you haven't dissuaded any of the trolls and vandals who will happily give you a false name, but you have lost a large part of your good editors? 3 A lot of our editors are young. Some are very young. Is it ethical to encourage them to broadcast their identity on the Internet and create a permanent record of their adolescent views on many controversial topics? 4 Wikipedia was largely written by anonymous authors, would it be ethical to disown them now and prevent them from being part of the project? WereSpielChequers On 18 February 2011 08:26, Bob the Wikipedian <bobthewikipedian(a)gmail.com> wrote:

The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course, would focus more on exploring what we like about anonymity, as you've indicated you're seeing that unexpected trend. Sorry for the confusion! God bless, Bob On 2/17/2011 10:41 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the quick reply. Do you mean that you are waiting on a new > URL of the survey? I have edited the > currenct survey so the URL given in my first email is still correct. Do > I need to post the full message again before publishing (on the list), or > will this be done by the moderators of the list? > > Sorry for the inconvenience, but maybe I misunderstood? > > Regards, > > Jeroen Kleijn > > Op 17-02-11 16:44, Bob the Wikipedian schreef: >> Mr. Kleijn-- >> >> Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than >> willing to participate. >> >> I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very >> difficult to write without leading the questionnee. >> >> God bless, >> Bob >> >> On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> At first: thank you for replying. >>> >>> I've checked the grammar of the survey and made some corrections in the >>> introduction. Although I can't see any grammar errors >>> in the questions. Concerning your second point about vandalism I agree. >>> The results (I've launched the survey last sunday) show that most of the >>> respondents >>> say that anonimity is not a problem but Wikipedia's greatest strength. >>> But I'm still curious about this topic and would like to check it. >>> >>> Therefore, I hope that I could run the survey on the WikiEN list. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jeroen Kleijn >>> >>> Dear all, >>>> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning >>>> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which >>>> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of >>>> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will >>>> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. >>>> >>>> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available >>>> at: >>>> >>>> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 >>>> >>>> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia >>>> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. >>>> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To >>>> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible >>>> complete >>>> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the >>>> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read >>>> this list. >>>> >>>> Your support would be greatly appreciated! >>>> >>>> With regards, >>>> >>>> Jeroen Kleijn >>>> >>> Op 14-02-11 11:29, michael west schreef: >>>> On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn<jeroenkleyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning >>>>> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that >>>>> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of >>>>> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will >>>>> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia. >>>>> >>>>> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available >>>>> at: >>>>> >>>>> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574 >>>>> >>>>> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia >>>>> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article. >>>>> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To >>>>> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible >>>>> complete >>>>> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the >>>>> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read >>>>> this list. >>>>> >>>>> Your support would be greatly appreciated! >>>>> >>>>> With regards, >>>>> >>>>> Jeroen Kleijn >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to >>>> anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>>> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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