Comments on: First preliminary results from UNU-Merit Survey of Wikipedia Readers and Contributors available

By: SJ

SJ — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:14:04 +0000

This is brilliant. That 2/3 of readers who took time to respond are male is surprising. Many congratulations on completing this phase of the survey. Are there thoughts yet on how to revise questions in surveys to come?

By: Lengra

Lengra — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:46:37 +0000

I don’t understand why you published the results before you have actually done your investigation. Without those 40 000 answers the statistics cannot be considered correct.
Why did I even bother to answer the questionnaire when I should have know I don’t matter…

By: Bruno ANTOINE

Bruno ANTOINE — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:03:43 +0000

Hello. If I am right, just a few of the respondents are regular contributors. Best regards.

By: Awadewit

Awadewit — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:42:59 +0000

Self-selecting samples, such as the one used in this study, are usually quite skewed. The one piece of data listed here that we might be able to externally verify is the percentage of contributors vs. readers (it could at least be approximated). Has this been done and, if so, what was the result?

By: bluebirch

bluebirch — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:46:30 +0000

I think the “don’t know how to donate” is largely because not everybody has a credit card. Therefore it would help to have the different chapters more visible on the donate page and explicitly direct people who don’t want to use a credit card (or PayPale) to them.