With regards the other thread; below is the summary + link to the survey that has provoked the Guardian article. If you can, please help distribute this around the UK education sector.
>> An increasing number of university students worldwide use Wikipedia for >> “pre-research”, as part of their course assignments or research projects >> [1]. Yet many among academics and scientists refrain from contributing >> expert knowledge to Wikipedia, despite a growing number of calls from the >> scientific community to join the project. On the occasion of the 10th >> anniversary of the project, the Association for Psychological Science >> launched an initiative to get the scientific psychology community involved >> in improving the quality of articles in their field [2], while biomedical >> experts called upon their peers to help make public health information in >> Wikipedia rigorous and complete [3] and in the United States 31 doctoral >> programmes of 22 major Universities currently have students contribute to >> Wikipedia's Public Policy articles as a mandatory part of their postgraduate >> training [4]. >> >> The Wikimedia Research Committee [5] has just launched a survey to >> understand why scientists, academics and other experts do (or do not) >> contribute to Wikipedia and other collaborative projects, and whether >> individual motivation aligns with shared perceptions of Wikipedia within >> expert communities. We hope this may help us identify ways around barriers >> to participation. We hope that results will also help us understand issues >> regarding power surrounding collaborative cultures, popular communication of >> science and public engagement. >> >> The survey is anonymous and takes about 20 min to complete. Please help us >> circulate the link among your colleagues and collaborators: >> >> http://bit.ly/ExpertBarriers >> >> >> [1] http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/ >> [2] http://bit.ly/e9HWOI >> [3] http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/ >> [4] >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy >> [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
