hi all - the authors note how the surprisingly large number of contributors (circa 31%) compared to plain readers is probably not representative and i agree that it seems remarkably high. in the past when i discuss wikipedia with my undergraduate students it is very rare to have even one who has contributed. across several years and a few hundred students i only had a handful who had contributed. interestingly, most of them didn't even know this was possible and these are media students. <div>
<br></div><div>if this initial stat is so off, i wonder how it impacts some of the other questions. don't get me wrong, i am grateful to have any stats like this and it's a real task putting something like this together. i just wonder what truth claims can be drawn from this kind of work when one of the stats seems quite off.<div>
<div><br></div><div>best</div><div><br clear="all">Nate Tkacz <br><br>Research Fellow,<br>RMIT University<br><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/__nate__">http://twitter.com/__nate__</a><br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.nathanieltkacz.net">www.nathanieltkacz.net</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Jon Awbrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jawbrey@att.net">jawbrey@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is that female persons?<br>
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Or female sockpuppets?<br>
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R. U. Sure?<br>
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Jon<br>
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