Research talk:Wikipedia is necessary, the internet implies it.

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English Wikipedia[edit]

As this research is announced on Meta, there should be mentioned that this concerns the English Wikipedia only. It should not be assumed that the word "Wikipedia" equals English Wikipedia. --Pxos (talk) 00:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it's been fixed. Leutha (talk) 00:09, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wouldn't it be interesting to look at other languages too? -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, but that cannot be done within the scope of this project and would require the participation of someone with better language skills than I have! Leutha (talk) 08:35, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

Thanks for creating this page to inform about your research project.

For the dissemination have you consider to publish in an open access journal?

How many messages do you plan to send to talk places to recruit Wikipedians for the survey?

Cheers! --Lilaroja (talk) 14:38, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,

I was planning, in the first place, to publish on Wikversity. Please see Wikipedia and Nupedia for previous material published there. I would be interested in contact details for any open Acces journal which might be interested in this sort of material.Leutha
I am envisaging sending 100 messages.Leutha (talk) 23:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What percentage of reaction you envision? Do you plan to send additional messages if the reaction level would be lower than expected?--Ymblanter (talk) 18:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
By selecting editors with at least 30 edits over previous 30 days, I expect responses from more engaged editors, and hence would hope for 20 - 30%. In the event of a poor response, I would send one follow up message, inviting the User to leave a message as regards why they might not want to be involved.Leutha (talk) 21:18, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Should be fine then. As far as I am concerned, you can go ahead. We may need to wait for Mayo's response though.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Idem for me --Lilaroja (talk) 11:03, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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