[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

[Michael Peel]

On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:00, geni wrote:

> 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.

I'm sorry; I can understand those sentences separately, but not when  
they are combined. Wikipedia is a way to take knowledge (and the  
spread of knowledge) seriously. That's why I'm here.

I would hope that being anti-wikipedia (or anti-knowledge) is not a  
requirement for high-school teachers.

Mike