Professional Documents
Culture Documents
April 12-15
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 N/A N
Gen. E 8% 10% 7% 14% 7% 12% 5% 8% 7% 12% 10% 59
Websites S 16% 9% 9% 5% 4% 4% 13% 5% 9% 24% 2% 55
Printed E 7% 9% 9% 11% 5% 4% 9% 9% 7% 7% 22% 50
Newsp S 6% 10% 14% 8% 8% 6% 6% 8% 2% 8% 24% 50
Online E 10% 10% 13% 6% 4% 12% 15% 6% 2% 6% 17% 52
Newsp. S 12% 6% 12% 14% 8% 6% 12% 8% 4% 0% 18% 50
Printed E 12% 9% 7% 12% 5% 2% 5% 5% 11% 7% 23% 56
Encyl. S 10% 12% 4% 6% 12% 12% 2% 14% 14% 4% 12% 51
Online E 2% 14% 7% 3% 16% 7% 14% 10% 12% 3% 12% 58
Encycl S 4% 12% 10% 8% 10% 22% 8% 8% 6% 2% 8% 49
Printed E 15% 10% 8% 5% 7% 10% 8% 8% 7% 3% 17% 59
Content S 6% 17% 8% 6% 4% 12% 15% 4% 6% 10% 13% 52
Online E 9% 13% 19% 13% 7% 13% 4% 0 9% 4% 9% 54
Content S 4% 11% 8% 8% 15% 11% 6% 11% 6% 8% 13% 53
Printed E 5% 3% 5% 5% 10% 3% 7% 8% 5% 14% 34% 59
Gov. S 4% 0% 10% 12% 6% 2% 10% 6% 14% 8% 27% 49
Online E 5% 4% 7% 7% 22% 16% 9% 7% 9% 0 13% 55
Gov S 5% 6% 12% 6% 4% 12% 10% 12% 4% 8% 22% 51
Personal E 10% 9% 7% 9% 10% 12% 5% 7% 9% 10% 12% 58
Knowl. S 12% 9% 7% 16% 11% 2% 7% 9% 11% 11% 7% 57
Contributions by type
0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 40-50% 50%+ N
Encyclopedic E 3.23% 3.23% 6.45% 25.81% 61.29% 62
content S 0.00% 3.33% 16.67% 23.33% 56.67% 60
Community E 54.24% 27.12% 13.56% 5.08% 0% 59
portal S 64.29% 25.00% 10.71% 0.00% 0.00% 56
Policies E 39.66% 37.93% 15.52% 5.17% 1.72% 58
S 59.65% 22.81% 14.04% 1.75% 1.75% 57
Technical E 51.72% 24.14% 13.79% 5.17% 5.17% 58
questions S 48.21% 12.50% 19.64% 10.71% 8.93% 56
Questions 29-33
Motivation
Challenges
Vandals
Edit wars
Time
Maintaining accuracy and neutrality.
Dealing with the diverse, disorganized community and the lack of effective
governance of the same. (EN)
Rewards
Sense of achievement
Community interactions (SP)
Fun
Experienced Problems
Personal attacks
Problems with administrators (EN)
Dealing with fanatics
Esperanza Román-Mendoza eromanme@gmu.edu http://mason.gmu.edu/~eromanme