[Foundation-l] WMF and UNU-Merit announce first survey of Wikipedians

Fri Jan 25 21:53:17 UTC 2008

On 1/25/08, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> As such, it raises man interesting questions, the chief of which for me is:
> "How is 'Wikipedian' defined?" In Hebrew, the word for definition is
> "hagdarah,"  from the root "gader," or fence. In other words, when you define
> something, you  put a fence around it, defining what is inside and what is out. When
> conducting  a survey of Wikipedians, you are similarly determining "Who is in"
> and "Who is  out."

For the purposes of this announcement, "Wikipedian" is actually meant
very loosely, as it's going to be a survey of both readers &
contributors, and there will be questions examining the specific
background, perceptions & motivations of both groups. The survey
should indeed give us a fairly good shot at drawing boundaries and
establishing definitions.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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