Dear all,

as many of you know, we have started a survey on the motivation of contributors to Wikipedia a week ago. So far, more than 150 participants from more than 10 countries completed our online survey -- thanks a lot to everyone!

The questionnaire will be available until August 3 at:

http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/

We would like to invite everybody who is involved in one or more Wikipedia projects as contributors, sysops or in community discussions to answer the survey. This will take about 20 minutes. The questionnaire is in English, but participants from other Wikipedias are especially invited to take part as well.

We are also glad that a number of people have linked to our survey from their blogs or set links on prominent Wikipedia pages. We even have a Wikipedia page ourselves now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_W%C3%BCrzburg_survey%2C...

To allow for reliable results, we hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help us if you could link to the survey from visible Wikipedia pages (e.g., community pages or recent changes).

We would also be glad if you forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list.

The original announcement is available here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-July/026281.html

Our project website is here: http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en

Thank you for your time and input, and best wishes from Wuerzburg,

Joachim Schroer