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

Fri May 27 20:46:17 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Timwi said:
> 
>> Wow. I wouldn't have expected this kind of response from a 
>> Wikimedian. When I read it, money hadn't even crossed my mind. Did 
>> anyone else think  there might be money to be earned from this?
> 
> 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?

Even wower. You're completely assuming bad faith. Very untypical of a 
Wikimedian. May I remind you of [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith]]?

> Why won't Haifa university's servers do?

The site is hosted on com.haifa.ac.il, which is not only in Israel, but 
even a Haifa university server.

Timwi