[Foundation-l] academic inquiry msg

Sun Mar 19 09:03:31 UTC 2006

Well all I can say the name is most definately Thai! Mai is a very 
common nickname here also!

Waerth/Walter

>I received the following email today:
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>Hello:
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>I am writing to you to ask you about your objectives as a Wikipedia
>contributor.
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>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.
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>I would like to ask you just three questions and hope you will be able to
>answer:
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>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?
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>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?
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>3. Do you expect that your contributing more to Wikipedia will lead to
>others to contribute more?
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>Please just type your answers right behind the questions, or below, if you
>like.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Thank you very much.
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>Regards,
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>Pattarawan (Mai) Prasarnphanich, PhD
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>Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems
>City University of Hong Kong
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>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.
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>should i participate in the enquiry?
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>i am also posting the msg. header as it may interest you:
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>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
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>http://vedant.lath.in/icse/User:Vedanta
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