I apologize that this took so long; the survey team spent a lot of time cleaning up the very large number of responses that they received. But we're sharing now with their permission the first preliminary results from the Wikipedia survey of readers and contributors last year:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/16/first-preliminary-results-from-unu-meri...
Use with caution as it's still preliminary, but hopefully already gives a first snapshot of the key findings. Breakdown by languages is one of the next key priorities. They've committed to frequent updates now that the data is ready for analysis.
Enjoy! Erik
Erik,
Congratulations! The results of this survey will be very useful for all of us. Could you please answer a couple of questions:
- Can they/you/we "wiki" the results on Meta? - When will the data become available for the community?
Thanks, Thomas
2009/4/17 Thomas de Souza Buckup thomasdesouzabuckup@gmail.com:
Erik,
Congratulations! The results of this survey will be very useful for all of us. Could you please answer a couple of questions:
- Can they/you/we "wiki" the results on Meta?
- When will the data become available for the community?
I don't think there's any problem with wikifying what's released now, but I've forwarded your inquiry to them as well. I think the only concern is that the current analysis is still preliminary so shouldn't be considered "the results", but a first overview of some selected data. More analysis will follow incrementally, followed by a research paper. After that the team will carefully anonymize the data and make it available under CC-BY. My understanding is that the timeline is roughly as follows:
April to July: incremental publication of preliminary analysis Summer: publication of research paper Fall: publication of anonymized data under CC-BY.
HTH, Erik
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-----Original Message----- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:35:19 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Listfoundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Ruediger Glottglott.ruediger@gmail.com; Philipp Schmidtphi.schmidt@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] First data from Wikipedia survey published
2009/4/17 Thomas de Souza Buckup thomasdesouzabuckup@gmail.com:
Erik,
Congratulations! The results of this survey will be very useful for all of us. Could you please answer a couple of questions:
- Can they/you/we "wiki" the results on Meta?
- When will the data become available for the community?
I don't think there's any problem with wikifying what's released now, but I've forwarded your inquiry to them as well. I think the only concern is that the current analysis is still preliminary so shouldn't be considered "the results", but a first overview of some selected data. More analysis will follow incrementally, followed by a research paper. After that the team will carefully anonymize the data and make it available under CC-BY. My understanding is that the timeline is roughly as follows:
April to July: incremental publication of preliminary analysis Summer: publication of research paper Fall: publication of anonymized data under CC-BY.
HTH, Erik
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