On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:00, geni wrote:
2009/10/10 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
On 10 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Samuel Klein wrote:
In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3 years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of thing would be a fascinating survey to run year after year.
Does the WMF commission surveys like this? It would seem a natural thing to do - there are third party organizations that are capable of performing this sort of survey in a statistically unbiased way.
(Am I correct in thinking that the only surveys done to date are those held on-wiki, and possibly that done by third parties such as ComScore without the request of Wikimedia?)
Mike
The complexity is that in certain groups being anti-wikipedia is a requirement for fitting in. A statement that you take knowledge seriously.
I'm sorry; I can understand those sentences separately, but not when they are combined. Wikipedia is a way to take knowledge (and the spread of knowledge) seriously. That's why I'm here.
I would hope that being anti-wikipedia (or anti-knowledge) is not a requirement for high-school teachers.
Mike