[WikiEN-l] Wiki Research

[Ray Saintonge]

James Sutton wrote:

>My name is Jim Sutton and I'm undertaking research in the School of Library,
>Archive, and Information Studies, UCL.
>
>http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/
>
>My research involves studying wiki usage, the reasons why individuals use wikis
>and the benefits/disadvantages of using wikis to manage knowledge.
>
>I was wondering if you would agree to my analysing your contributions to
>Wikipedia. This will basically involve calculating how many times you've
>contributed to Wikipedia within the time period of a week.
>
Since contribution histories of users are all public, no permissions 
should be needed to analyze any of them.

>I was also wondering what your reasons are for using/contributing to Wikipedia.
>
The simple answer to that is that I am completely mad.

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