Motivation of Contributors to Wikipedia
Welcome to the website of our Wikipedia survey!
Project News
- September 18, 2008: Manuscript accepted for publication!
- We are very pleased that our manuscript "Voluntary engagement in an open web-based encyclopedia:
Wikipedians, and why they do it" is now in press with
Media Psychology:
Schroer, J. & Hertel, G. (in press).
Voluntary engagement in an open web-based encyclopedia:
Wikipedians, and why they do it. Media Psychology.
Update 03/06/2009:
The paper has now been
published
by Media Psychology!
- February 06, 2008: Poster presentation on Wikipedia readers available
- This poster will be presented on the "General Online Research" conference 2008
(GOR 08)
and analyzes the reasons why Wikipedia readers begin contributing to Wikipedia themselves
(and why not).
- May 11, 2007: Presentation at EAWOP 2007 available
- These slides were prepared for a talk at the 13th
European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology
(EAWOP 2007)
in Stockholm, Sweden.
- January 09, 2007: Working Paper available!
- This paper describes results of the first part of study, i.e.
the survey among contributors to the German Wikipedia. It is
currently under review for publication.
In this international version of the survey, we implemented a number
of ideas and suggestions we got from our survey of the German Wikipedia
project a few weeks ago.
Please note:
This survey has been developed for people who are actively engaged in
the Wikipedia project (e.g. as author, administrator, translator, or
in community discussions). If you're simply using Wikipedia as an encyclopedia,
please do not participate in this survey.
Please only participate once. Thank you!
Goals of Our Study
We are very pleased about your interest in our study. We are interested
in the reasons why Wikipedians are involved with Wikipedia as
author, software developer or organizer. We are also interested
whether these reasons reasons have changed over time.
We hope this study will
- provide statistical data and insight about Wikipedia
which go beyond previous reports in the media and
- encourage a helpful discussion between participants and
- reveal best practices for Wikipedia and related
Open Content projects.
Contact Us!
For questions or suggestions, you're invited to contact
- Joachim Schroer
- works as research associate at the department of Work, Industrial
and Organizational Psychology at the University of Würzburg.
- Prof. Guido Hertel
- is professor for Work, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
at the University of Würzburg. Guido has already conducted
studies about Open Source projects
in the past.
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