[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

[Marc Riddell]

> 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
> 
on 10/10/09 10:00 AM, geni at geniice at gmail.com wrote:

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

Geni, it is not "anti-wikipedia" to recognize and understand the difference
between information and knowledge.

Marc Riddell