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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A survey on how scholars use Wikipedia

PLoS is helping the Wikimedia Foundation run a survey of Wikipedia use among the scholarly community.  (Thanks to Donna Okubo.)  From the site:

Welcome to the first survey about professional usage and opinions of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, within the scholarly community. The goal of this survey is to increase understanding of the use and opinions about Wikipedia among this group. Completing this survey will only take 3 minutes of your valuable time. The results will be used to inform possible future decisions about new ways to enhance Wikipedia to make it more valuable to scholarship.

This survey will be open until February 26 midnight PST.