[WikiEN-l] Announcement: Survey study on the categorization of contributors to Wikipedia
Jeroen Kleijn
jeroenkleyn at gmail.com
Sun Feb 20 16:11:00 UTC 2011
Hi,
Thank you for your advise and (very interesting) material. The reason
for not carrying out another survey is that I need more responses on the
same questions and therefore I would like to ask the listmembers for
help. I want to collect more than 50 responses for my survey (currently
I'm on 32). When you don't agree with the anonymity question I could
delete this question from the survey, but I really would like to ask the
other questions of the questionnaire. My main focus is on the
characteristics and the level of innovation of the Wikipedian (Diffusion
of Innovation theory). I was curious if the notion of anonymity of the
veteran Wikipedian would be different from the idea of a relatively
'new' Wikipedian.
Regards,
Jeroen
Op 18-02-11 14:11, WereSpielChequers schreef:
> Hi Jeroen, you might also want to look at some of the forks of
> Wikipedia such as Citizendium and Conservapedia and see how
> "successful" they have been with their policies of restricting IP
> editing and even pseudonymous editing.
>
> Also there was some discussion about this on the Strategy project. For example:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Less_anonymity
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Get_rid_of_the_global_anonymity
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Require_all_new_user_Accounts_to_start_as_anonymous
>
> The big questions that proposals to end anonymity tend to founder on are:
>
> 1 How do you persuade "good editors" to go through an id verification
> process before they start editing?
> 2 If you skip the verification process how do you avoid the scenario
> where you haven't dissuaded any of the trolls and vandals who will
> happily give you a false name, but you have lost a large part of your
> good editors?
> 3 A lot of our editors are young. Some are very young. Is it ethical
> to encourage them to broadcast their identity on the Internet and
> create a permanent record of their adolescent views on many
> controversial topics?
> 4 Wikipedia was largely written by anonymous authors, would it be
> ethical to disown them now and prevent them from being part of the
> project?
>
> WereSpielChequers
>
>
> On 18 February 2011 08:26, Bob the Wikipedian
> <bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second
>> survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course, would
>> focus more on exploring what we like about anonymity, as you've
>> indicated you're seeing that unexpected trend.
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion!
>>
>> God bless,
>> Bob
>>
>> On 2/17/2011 10:41 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply. Do you mean that you are waiting on a new
>>> URL of the survey? I have edited the
>>> currenct survey so the URL given in my first email is still correct. Do
>>> I need to post the full message again before publishing (on the list), or
>>> will this be done by the moderators of the list?
>>>
>>> Sorry for the inconvenience, but maybe I misunderstood?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jeroen Kleijn
>>>
>>> Op 17-02-11 16:44, Bob the Wikipedian schreef:
>>>> Mr. Kleijn--
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than
>>>> willing to participate.
>>>>
>>>> I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very
>>>> difficult to write without leading the questionnee.
>>>>
>>>> God bless,
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> At first: thank you for replying.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've checked the grammar of the survey and made some corrections in the
>>>>> introduction. Although I can't see any grammar errors
>>>>> in the questions. Concerning your second point about vandalism I agree.
>>>>> The results (I've launched the survey last sunday) show that most of the
>>>>> respondents
>>>>> say that anonimity is not a problem but Wikipedia's greatest strength.
>>>>> But I'm still curious about this topic and would like to check it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore, I hope that I could run the survey on the WikiEN list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeroen Kleijn
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning
>>>>>> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project which
>>>>>> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of
>>>>>> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will
>>>>>> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available
>>>>>> at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia
>>>>>> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article.
>>>>>> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To
>>>>>> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible
>>>>>> complete
>>>>>> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the
>>>>>> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read
>>>>>> this list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your support would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeroen Kleijn
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 14-02-11 11:29, michael west schreef:
>>>>>> On 13 February 2011 16:47, Jeroen Kleijn<jeroenkleyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm a Master student and currently busy with my thesis concerning
>>>>>>> Wikipedia. This survey is part of a Master Thesis research project that
>>>>>>> investigates the effects of the increasing participation at reliability of
>>>>>>> Wikipedia. The survey is designed to collect information that will
>>>>>>> help me to identify the contributors to Wikipedia.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would like to invite you to answer my online survey, which is available
>>>>>>> at:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=ag5flewr68z06ay867574
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To be eligible for this investigation you should be an user of Wikipedia
>>>>>>> who has contributed to the website by creating or editing an article.
>>>>>>> The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. To
>>>>>>> allow for reliable results, I hope that as many contributors as possible
>>>>>>> complete
>>>>>>> the questionnaire. You would especially help me if you could link to the
>>>>>>> questionnaire or forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read
>>>>>>> this list.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Your support would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jeroen Kleijn
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Check your grammar on the survey. and in terms of the question relating to
>>>>>> anonymity and vandalism, most editors will not describe it as a problem.
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