[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

[geni]

2009/10/10 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>:
>
> On 10 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>> In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3
>> years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today.  This sort of thing
>> would be a fascinating survey to run year after year.
>
> Does the WMF commission surveys like this? It would seem a natural
> thing to do - there are third party organizations that are capable of
> performing this sort of survey in a statistically unbiased way.
>
> (Am I correct in thinking that the only surveys done to date are
> those held on-wiki, and possibly that done by third parties such as
> ComScore without the request of Wikimedia?)
>
> Mike

The complexity is that in certain groups being anti-wikipedia is a
requirement for fitting in. A statement that you take knowledge
seriously.



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geni