[WikiEN-l] Actual data on spoiler warning uses by the public

[Andrew Gray]

On 16/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> See http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6424&p=147306#p147306
>
> In retrospect I'm not sure why no one did this before. The sample isn't
> exactly
> representative (since it is xkcd fora). But one interesting thing seems clear;
> the public prefers spoiler warnings on Wikipedia and uses them.

Well... thirty people on an internet forum prefer spoiler warnings and
use them. I'm not entirely sure we can generalise from that to "the
public" with any degree of confidence.

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- Andrew Gray
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