On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marco Chiesa <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> > And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider >> > unacceptable >> > first. But then, 67% of people would have done so even if everyone chose >> > their answers randomly. >> >> Now, how many of the 20% who wants their name cited would have given the >> same response to something like: "Would you be happy to piss everyone off >> if >> your name does not appear in a list of about 100 authors of a Wikipedia >> article cited by Xyz?" >> > > Not clear. That question wasn't asked. > > In fact, it's not clear that only 20% want their name cited. If you ranked > "full list of authors must always be copied" second, does that mean that you > expect all authors to be listed, but just that you expect something else > more, or does it mean that you don't expect all authors to be listed at > all? It's not clear. The survey methodology was horrible.
Far be it for me to disagree with survey results that back up my position on attribution :) ... but I actually agree with Anthony on this one. This is a very small, self-selected sample; there would be no harm or cost associated with turning it on for a much larger percentage (or all) of logged-in users on the top-ten languages, not just English or German alone, which both have peculiarities associated with being the largest Wikipedia communities. I agree also there was not a middle-ground option for those who think only the top (no matter how that gets determined) authors should be attributed. On the other hand, I can't recall for sure what the questions said, because I can't see them, having already taken the survey... is there a meta page with the questions somewhere? I know there's time pressure on this... but on the other hand, we've waited years :) It would be worthwhile to get better stats before making sweeping generalizations about the community's desires. -- Phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
