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The data is very interesting, but I am quite surprised at the
segmentation of respondents by languages and countries. 26%
Russian-speakers, almost all of them from Russia and Ukraine (rather
than from the large Russian diaspora) - this can mean either a huge
success to WP in these countries in the past two years or so, or that
the outreach to people in these countries (with regard to this survey)
was extremely better than in other communities. In any case, there is
some bias in the results.<br>
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Dror<br>
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בתאריך 19/04/10 03:35, ציטוט nathaniel tkacz:
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type="cite">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.
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<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.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Jon Awbrey <span
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that female persons?<br>
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Or female sockpuppets?<br>
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R. U. Sure?<br>
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