[Wikipedia-l] academic inquiry msg

Sun Mar 19 12:20:38 UTC 2006

As far as I know, the internet is not censored in the Hong Kong SAR, only in
mainland China.

Ronline

2006/3/19, Vedant Lath <vedantlathetc at gmail.com>:
>
> I received the following email today:
>
> ----
>
> Hello:
>
> I am writing to you to ask you about your objectives as a Wikipedia
> contributor.
>
>
>
> My name is Mai Pattarawan.  I am an academic at the City University of
> Hong
> Kong, researching Wikipedia.  Specifically I am interested in the
> objectives
> and motivation of Wikipedians who take the time and make the effort to
> contribute.
>
>
>
> I would like to ask you just three questions and hope you will be able to
> answer:
>
>
>
>
>
> 1. Why do you contribute to Wikipedia? Would you say it is a personal
> matter, where you enjoy the opportunity to reveal your knowledge on a
> subject, or a collaborative goal where you enjoy sharing knowledge with
> others?
>
>
>
> 2. In what ways do you find your contributing to Wikipedia beneficial? (
> E.g.,
> satisfaction of building the world's largest encyclopedia). Would you say
> these benefits (personal or for the entire community) are felt right away,
> or do you expect the benefits to arise as time goes by?
>
>
>
> 3. Do you expect that your contributing more to Wikipedia will lead to
> others to contribute more?
>
>
>
>
>
> Please just type your answers right behind the questions, or below, if you
> like.
>
>
>
> I am sending this email only to about 100 Wikipedians, so I very much hope
> you will answer me and allow me to gain some insights.  I found you via
> Google, by searching for Wikipedians who post their email address in
> Wikipedia.
>
>
>
> If you like to receive feedback about the results of this inquiry, please
> let me know and I will email it to you.  Of course, yours and everyone
> else's personal information will not be disclosed.  I will only share
> non-personalized and summary information.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Pattarawan (Mai) Prasarnphanich, PhD
>
> Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems
> City University of Hong Kong
>
> ----
>
> The IP address of the sender
> (219.79.22.41<http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=219.79.22.41>)
> is from Hong Kong, and AFAIK, China blocks wikimedia projects. So, how can
> a
> person from Hong Kong possibly access wikipedia extensively so as to
> analyse
> the contributions and nature of wikipedia? and moreover, he says that he
> is
> sending it to only 100 wikipedians. This can make the result very
> different
> from the actual fact.
>
> should i participate in the enquiry?
>
> i am also posting the msg. header as it may interest you:
>
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> Received: from Mai ([219.79.22.41]) by imsm058dat.netvigator.com
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>           for <vedant.lath at gmail.com>; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:12:10 +0800
> Message-ID: <008801c64b1c$0e8ac220$6501a8c0 at Mai>
> From: "Pattarawan (Mai) Prasarnphanich" <pprasarn at cityu.edu.hk>
> To: <vedant.lath at gmail.com>
> Subject: Academic inquiry on your objectives and motivation as Wikipedian
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:12:09 +0800
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> Vedant Lath
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vedant_lath
> http://vedant.lath.in/icse/User:Vedanta
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