[WikiEN-l] Survey about paid editing

· Firefoxman enwpmail at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 20:25:23 UTC 2007


The Current stats are No way. The beauty of the site is that it's policed by
volunteers who keep it PR-free.
*57*% Sure. Everyone, paid or volunteer, has trouble staying neutral.
*39*% What's Wikipedia?
*4.1*%


On 2/1/07, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering what the opinions of "influential Wikipedians" are regarding
> this MSNBC poll that shows 40% of over a thousand people think like I do?
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16795533/
>
> Clearly, I'm in the minority, but it's certainly not a small minority.  I
> would also love to learn (if it were only possible) what the demographics
> are of those who responded "No way" versus those who responded "Sure".  I
> would venture a guess that the average age and household income of those
> saying "Sure" is higher than those who say "No way".
>
> Also, I'd like to mention here to Guy Chapman that he's either
> deleting/ignoring the three civilly-worded e-mails I have sent him, or
> he's
> not getting them whatsoever.  Geni did me a favor and e-mailed Guy, too --
> but I've not heard back from either of them.  Guy, care to comment about
> whether you're "taking" correspondence at your spamcop address?
>
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