[WikiEN-l] Survey of why wikipedians edit

[Christopher Mahan]

--- John Collison <john at collison.ie> wrote:

> I am conducting a short survey as part of a project on different 
> methods of building online projects. I mentioned this a while back
> on 
> wikipedia-l. I would greatly appreciate it if any wikipedians could
> 
> fill in the survey and send it back to me. Sorry to be a hassle.
> 
> THE SURVEY:
> 
> NOTE: This survey only concerns EN wikipedia, do not factor in any
> work 
> on other languages in this.
> 
> Q1: How long have you been editing wikipedia?
> A: 3 years
> 
> Q2: How many hours per week do you spend on wikipedia?
> A: 3
> 
> Q3: Do you write professionally?
> A: yes
> 
> Q4: What is your current employement?
> A: Programmer Analyst fortune 500 company
> 
> Q5: Why do you work on wikipedia for nothing when you could be paid
> to 
> write elsewhere?
> A: Because I can make more money programming than writing. I would
also say that it's a sharing thing. The information I get out og
Wikipedia is worth a lot to me, so I consider it payment.
> 
> Q6: If people were paid to work on Wikipedia, would you stay or
> would 
> you devote your time to something else?
> A: Something else
> 
> Q7: Do you think people should be paid to work on wikipedia?
> A: No.
> 
> Q8: Do you think developers should be paid?
> A: No. 
> 
> Q9: Do you think reward schemes and competitions (like Danny's
> contest) 
> on a small scale to get people to write more, better etc. should be
> 
> used on wikipedia?
> A: Maybe.
> 
> Note: You can answer yes to as many of the following questions as
> you 
> like.
> 
> Q10: Do you work on wikipedia for the enjoyement of seeing your
> work 
> online?
> A: No.
> 
> Q11: Do you work on wikipedia for the satisfaction that you have 
> created something good and it can be used by others?
> A: yes
> 
> Q12:Do you work on wikipedia because it you enjoy interacting with 
> others?
> A: No.
> 
> Q13: Do you edit wikipedia for any reasons other than the ones 
> mentioned above also?
> A: Yes.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> John Collison
> (Ludraman)
> 
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