[WikiEN-l] An academic survey about the intention of sharing knowledge in the Wikipedia

[Magnus Manske]

Well...
A1 : "I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others."
A2 : "Sharing my knowledge with others gives me pleasure."
Things I enjoy give me pleasure. So, this is the same question twice.
Or is my English that bad? Also,
A17 : "I like to share knowledge which gives me a sense of personal
achievement."
again...

A4 : "I only like to do things that are fun."
What things are fun? Whatever someone likes to do. Kinda circular...

A6 : "I will receive monetary rewards in return for my knowledge
sharing in the Wikipedia."
Does that mean "Im' getting paid for writing", or "I hope someone will
pay me, someday"?

B4 : "Wikipedia produces correct information."
B5 : "The information provided by Wikipedia is accurate."
Again, same thing, IMHO.

C1 : "Wikipedia operates reliably. "
C3 : "The operation of Wikipedia is dependable. "
Yet again...

C2 : "Wikipedia performs reliably. "
C7 : "It takes too long for Wikipedia to respond to my requests. "
C8 : "Wikipedia provides information in a timely fashion. "
C9 : "Wikipedia returns answers to my requests quickly. "
Wow, that's a new record in repeating the same question!

D2 : "Using Wikipedia would be pleasant. "
D8 : "It would be easy for me to learn the syntax in the Wikipedia. "
D9 : "It would be easy for me to search knowledge through Wikipedia. "
Would be, if ... what? If I would use it? Well, I do - how else would
I could I know the answers to these questions?

Also, the whole "E" section is one huge redundancy party.

And, the king of duplication:
F1 : "I often use Wikipedia to contribute my knowledge. "
F2 : "I regularly use Wikipedia to contribute my knowledge. "

Do you get paid by the question, or something? :-)

Anyway, I filled it in...

Magnus


On 6/8/07, Cheng Yu Lai <n8560136 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a doctoral student from Dept. of MIS, National Chengchi University,
> Taiwan. This academic questionnaire is about the influence of motivation
> source and attitude toward Wikipedia to the intention of sharing knowledge
> in the Wikipedia (http://online-survey.homeip.net/survey.php). Please take
> few minutes to do the questionnaire to provide me your valuable opinion.
> This survey does not require any personal information from you and of
> course, I will not be sharing any information in any way. Your input means a
> lot to me and I would like to thank you for taking the time to complete this
> survey. Thank you for your help!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Cheng-Yu
> 2007/6/8
>
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
> Lai Cheng-Yu
> Ph.D. Student, Department of MIS, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (
> R.O.C)
> E-mail : n8560136 at gmail.com
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