[Foundation-l] First data from Wikipedia survey published

[Erik Moeller]

2009/4/17 Thomas de Souza Buckup <thomasdesouzabuckup at 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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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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