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

[Fred Bauder]

I suspect that in the original Chinese the questions were more differentiated.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Magnus Manske [mailto:magnusmanske at googlemail.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 8, 2007 06:20 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An academic survey about the intention of sharing	knowledge in the Wikipedia
>
>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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