I have a journalist... looking for a wikipedian (or not) who might report on his use of wikipedia in his working environment.
But he wants someone working in private firm rather, not a student, not a teacher, not a researcher...
He would need an interview as soon as possible, in english is possible. This interview is meant for a french paper (monthly publication I think) on management (so read by a lot of managers of private business firms).
The interview would probably require citing the person name (real name) and likely a picture as well.
Right now, we could not succeed to find such a person.
If you are in such a situation, please contact him at serge.courrier (AT) pobox.com.
Thanks a lot for your help for a desesperate journalist who will not close his article as long as he has not found such a person
Anthere
I hope I do not disturb this list too much in proposing another topic of discussion than artificial languages and ads... but right... we know little of our end users.
We know OURSELVES. We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
WHO ?
Anthere a écrit:
I have a journalist... looking for a wikipedian (or not) who might report on his use of wikipedia in his working environment.
But he wants someone working in private firm rather, not a student, not a teacher, not a researcher...
He would need an interview as soon as possible, in english is possible. This interview is meant for a french paper (monthly publication I think) on management (so read by a lot of managers of private business firms).
The interview would probably require citing the person name (real name) and likely a picture as well.
Right now, we could not succeed to find such a person.
If you are in such a situation, please contact him at serge.courrier (AT) pobox.com.
Thanks a lot for your help for a desesperate journalist who will not close his article as long as he has not found such a person
Anthere
From my own experience as a child, especially in elementary school, many of
our users are probably elementary school children. One reason to go a lot easier than we do with the sophisticated technical language some of us lard our articles with.
Older and educated users may use data in our articles, but I think they will mostly consult books if they have a serious interest in a subject. They will certainly immediately see through the efforts of our POV warriors.
Fred
From: Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:53:40 +0100 To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: management
I hope I do not disturb this list too much in proposing another topic of discussion than artificial languages and ads... but right... we know little of our end users.
We know OURSELVES. We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
WHO ?
Anthere a écrit:
I have a journalist... looking for a wikipedian (or not) who might report on his use of wikipedia in his working environment.
But he wants someone working in private firm rather, not a student, not a teacher, not a researcher...
He would need an interview as soon as possible, in english is possible. This interview is meant for a french paper (monthly publication I think) on management (so read by a lot of managers of private business firms).
The interview would probably require citing the person name (real name) and likely a picture as well.
Right now, we could not succeed to find such a person.
If you are in such a situation, please contact him at serge.courrier (AT) pobox.com.
Thanks a lot for your help for a desesperate journalist who will not close his article as long as he has not found such a person
Anthere
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Anthere said:
We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
When I was at the Grauniad we commissioned a company to come and attach to the site, for a period of some weeks, a pop-up survey that was seen by a randomly selected subset of users, who then would have the option of filling it in. You can also learn a certain amount by looking at web server logs. Country of origin, ISP, and some information about the software being used to browse. Also Referer (where Wikipedia is reached as a result of an external link on another website.) With tracker cookies (a form of spyware) you may also find out which other sites are being visited. A benign use of this latter technique would be an in-house domain-wide tracker that would record the Wikipedia sister sites that have been visited by a user. This latter technical information wouldn't tell us about our users so much as how Wikipedia was being used. How much was from academia, how much from school networks, how much from different countries and different ISPs, and so on.
--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Anthere said:
We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
When I was at the Grauniad we commissioned a company to come and attach to the site, for a period of some weeks, a pop-up survey that was seen by a randomly selected subset of users, who then would have the option of filling it in. You can also learn a certain amount by looking at web server logs. Country of origin, ISP, and some information about the software being used to browse. Also Referer (where Wikipedia is reached as a result of an external link on another website.) With tracker cookies (a form of spyware) you may also find out which other sites are being visited. A benign use of this latter technique would be an in-house domain-wide tracker that would record the Wikipedia sister sites that have been visited by a user. This latter technical information wouldn't tell us about our users so much as how Wikipedia was being used. How much was from academia, how much from school networks, how much from different countries and different ISPs, and so on.
Way too much personal information in there man.
I say we put a feedback/kudos form or a guestbook or something like that.
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Christopher Mahan a écrit:
--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Way too much personal information in there man.
I say we put a feedback/kudos form or a guestbook or something like that.
Hmmmm, yeah, an idea to explore here :-)
ant
Anthere wrote:
We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
WHO ?
My guess would be that the majority of our readers don't read Wikipedia on purpose, but stumble here either through links to a specific article, or google hits on a specific article. (We might get some sense of whether that's true by analyzing the referrer data in the logs.)
-Mark
Delirium wrote:
Anthere wrote:
We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
WHO ?
My guess would be that the majority of our readers don't read Wikipedia on purpose, but stumble here either through links to a specific article, or google hits on a specific article. (We might get some sense of whether that's true by analyzing the referrer data in the logs.)
-Mark
I suspect you're quite right in that supposition.
-- Chad
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