[WikiEN-l] Re: Fwd: A survey about Wikipedia

Fri May 27 08:41:28 UTC 2005

On May 27, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Tony Sidaway wrote:

>
> You miss my point, I think.  This is come chap using the name of a
> prestigious university to perform a "survey", even successfully  
> exploiting
> the goodwill of Wikipedia editors to have information about this  
> survey
> published on our mailing list. All we're told is that this is part  
> of a
> "non-commercial cross-cultural research project" and we're supposed  
> to go
> to a non-secure http site registered in Michigan (not, aas far as I'm
> aware, part of Israel) to fill it in.
> I wouldn't respond to a chap with a clipboard in the street who  
> told me
> this.  I'd laugh in his face.
> Who is he?  Why won't Haifa university's servers do?

For what it's worth, the University of Haifa do claim shil.info as  
their own.  See http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il/research_eng.htm