Wikimani

a
Buenos Teachers and
Aires Wikipedia –
2009
A story of
Love or Hate?

Einar Spetz
einarspetz@gmail.com

(SWE)
 Below: Sweden
Stockholm county (darker
blue)

Above: Projection of Euro-

pe.
Scandinavia circled
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Sweden The Greater Stockholm
Area

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2008 - 2009 2007 - 2008 4
 Upper secondary school af:Hoërskool
cs:Střední škola
da:Videregående skole

in Sweden de:Weiterführende Schule

en:Secondary school
eo:Mezlernejo
fa:‫دبیرستان‬
Pupils: 16 – 19 years old fi:High school
he:‫בית ספר תיכון‬
30.971 teachers on the national level hr:Srednja škola
ja: 高等学校
4459 teachers in Stockholm county ko: 고등학교
nl:Voortgezet onderwijs
This Study: 266 teachers no:Videregående skole
nn: Vidaregåande skule
≈ 6 percent of teachers in Stockholm pl:Szkoła średnia
county pt:Ensino secundário
simple:Secondary school
≈ 0,086 percent of all teachers in SWE sk:Stredná škola
th:ไฮสคูล
tl:Mataas na paaralan
tr:Lise
zh: 高級中學
zh-yue: 中學
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 Why study teachers?
Absence of facts /
Popular
understandings
about teachers
and WP:
Strict
Advising against
Wikipedia's content

Other reason 6
 Swedish language version WP
Then 290 000
entries
One of the big ten
– not
th
8 most visited
site by Swedish
internet users
(Alexa)
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Questionnaire

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Sweden The Greater Stockholm
Area

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Table 4. Teachers using other online
encyclopedias?

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Table 6. What do teachers think? Do pupils find
Wikipedia reliable?

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 Teachers and Wikipedia
A story of use and trust?
Teachers use
Wikipedia
Find it reliable
Use it more than
other reference
tools
Don't tell
Believe themselves
surrounded by
Wikipedia critics 20
 Reception
Noted by a few bloggers
http://www.skolvarlden.se/Article.jsp?article=3182
http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/bbl/bbl2009/Biblio
Detected only little interest

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