WIKIPEDIA An Informal Survey of NYU Students Stacey Kuznetsov April, 2006 Part I: Demographic of Survey Respondents Figure 1.1. 37 females and 65 males were surveyed. The participants were enrolled in over 20 different majors. Majors of Survey Respondents African American Studies Anthropology Chemistry Communications Design Economics Film Finance Foreign Language Health Management Journalism Linguistics Math Media Ecology Nutrition Occupational Therapy Philosophy Photography Physics Politics Psychology Recorded Music Sociology Speech Pathology Studio Art Part II: Error Correction Figure 2.1. More than a third of the respondents are willing to correct false information, whereas only 11% would change offensive content. Figure 2.2. Respondents are much more willing to correct an error in Wikipedia than in a printed source. Part III: Frequency of Wikipedia Use and Contribution Tendencies Figure 3.1. Respondents who use Wikipedia more frequently are more willing to make contributions Figure 3.2. Respondents who use Wikipedia more frequently have made more contributions to Wikipedia. Part IV: Correlation Between Contributions to Other Online Sources and Contributions to Wikipedia Figure 4.1. Respondents who contribute to other online sources tend to have made more contributions to Wikipedia than respondents who do not contribute to other sources. Figure 4.2. Respondents who contribute
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Wikipedia: an informal survey of NYU students
Kuznetsov, Stacey
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