Eddie Tejeda <ed...@...> writes: > 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social > production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character > traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research > psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70 > non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts > it<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians-grumpy-and-closedminded.html>, > Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new > ideas."' > http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php > > I wonder how the mailing list will react....
This is old news, the Signpost covered the research sometime January. Methodologically it is not much worth: it was based on an online questionnaire, so there is no way to tell which segment (if any) of the he.wiki community it is representative of. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
