With regards the other thread; below is the summary + link to the survey that has provoked the Guardian article. If you can, please help distribute this around the UK education sector.
>> An increasing number of university students worldwide use Wikipedia for “pre-research”, as part of their course assignments or research projects [1]. Yet many among academics and scientists refrain from contributing expert knowledge to Wikipedia, despite a growing number of calls from the scientific community to join the project. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the project, the Association for Psychological Science launched an initiative to get the scientific psychology community involved in improving the quality of articles in their field [2], while biomedical experts called upon their peers to help make public health information in Wikipedia rigorous and complete [3] and in the United States 31 doctoral programmes of 22 major Universities currently have students contribute to Wikipedia's Public Policy articles as a mandatory part of their postgraduate training [4].
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>> The Wikimedia Research Committee [5] has just launched a survey to understand why scientists, academics and other experts do (or do not) contribute to Wikipedia and other collaborative projects, and whether individual motivation aligns with shared perceptions of Wikipedia within expert communities. We hope this may help us identify ways around barriers to participation. We hope that results will also help us understand issues regarding power surrounding collaborative cultures, popular communication of science and public engagement.
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>> The survey is anonymous and takes about 20 min to complete. Please help us circulate the link among your colleagues and collaborators:
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>> http://bit.ly/ExpertBarriers
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>> [1] http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/
>> [2] http://bit.ly/e9HWOI
>> [3] http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/
>> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Pol…
>> [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee
Thanks,
Mike
In advance of the board meeting next Tuesday, I've started drafting up
some job descriptions on the wiki at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Job_Descriptions for the new members of
staff that we are recruiting.
Please add your contributions on the main and talk page to develop this.
Many thanks,
Andrew
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Backstage_Pass
If you think you have signed up for this then please add your tag to this
list.
Six months in the planning ...museums will be re-opened, back stores will be
shown, lunch will be free, the pub will have Derby Museum paintings in it
....etc
We have today published on the Wikimedia UK wiki our report on the
2010-11 fundraiser and I include a link below for your information.
Please let me know if you would like any further information about this.
Regards,
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Wikimedia UK Fundraising Report
To: Moushira Elamrawy <melamrawy(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Moushira,
I include below a link to our fundraising report regarding the 2010-11
Fundraiser which has been published on our website. If you would like
any further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/8/85/FundraisingReport2010-11Final…
Kind Regards,
Andrew Turvey
Chair, Wikimedia UK
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