On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:00, geni wrote: > 2009/10/10 Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net>: >> >> On 10 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >>> In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3 >>> years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of >>> thing >>> would be a fascinating survey to run year after year. >> >> Does the WMF commission surveys like this? It would seem a natural >> thing to do - there are third party organizations that are capable of >> performing this sort of survey in a statistically unbiased way. >> >> (Am I correct in thinking that the only surveys done to date are >> those held on-wiki, and possibly that done by third parties such as >> ComScore without the request of Wikimedia?) >> >> Mike > > The complexity is that in certain groups being anti-wikipedia is a > requirement for fitting in. A statement that you take knowledge > seriously.
I'm sorry; I can understand those sentences separately, but not when they are combined. Wikipedia is a way to take knowledge (and the spread of knowledge) seriously. That's why I'm here. I would hope that being anti-wikipedia (or anti-knowledge) is not a requirement for high-school teachers. Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
