Eddie Tejeda <eddie@...> writes:
'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the
fuel of online social
production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character
traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research
psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70
non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts
it<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipe…ml>,
Wikipedians are generally "grumpy,"
"disagreeable," and "closed to new
ideas."'
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php
I wonder how the mailing list will react....
This is old news, the Signpost covered the research sometime January.
Methodologically it is not much worth: it was based on an online questionnaire,
so there is no way to tell which segment (if any) of the he.wiki community it is
representative of.