User talk:Theophilus

Firstly, I am sorry to disturb you. I am a student at the college for applied sciences of information- and knowledge management in Eisenstadt, Austria and currently working on my masters thesis about (you may have guessed it already) wiki-collaboration and I am writing on your discussion page because I need your help: I am collecting data about logged-in community members which will be analysed quantitatively and of course presented anonymously. So I hope you don’t mind, asking you a few questions. (If you actually DO mind, please feel free to delete this posting immediately.) You were chosen because you are a member of an active wikicities-community, ignoring the fact, that you may be a sysop, developer or even founder of this community. So the questions only refer to actions, a “normal” logged-in user is able to perform. My intended procedure:
 * 1) You may write your answers directly into the questionnaire after the question mark or the full stop. If you don’t want to answer one of the questions, write “X”.
 * 2) You may sign this posting so that I know it is you.
 * 3) I will drop by occasionally, collect the data and delete the whole posting again. If there is no answer till the 12th of April I will delete it nevertheless

Many thanks in advance for your contribution.

So here are the Questions:

How old are you? Are you male or female? Which is the highest education you have completed? For how long have you known wikis in general? For how long have you been contributing to this wiki-plattform? Are you contributing to this community for professional reasons or for private interest?

Considering your actions on this platform so far, they consisted approximately of:

__% searching and finding information (in one word: retrieval).

__% editing, updating, discussing (in one word: publishing.

Please Answer the following statements with the numbers 1 (never), 2 (rarely), 3 (sometimes), 4 (often).


 * I use the edit-history of an article to revert vandalism.
 * I use the edit-history of an article to approximate its quality, when searching for information.
 * Other (please specify).


 * I use the discussion page of an article for refining content for the article.
 * I use the discussion page of an article to identify controversial topics, when searching for information.
 * Other (please specify).


 * I use back-links (“what links here”) to keep in context when updating content.
 * I use back-links (“what links here”) to broaden the view of certain topics.
 * Other (please specify).


 * I use structural pages like portals and categories to re-link orphaned pages.
 * I use structural pages like portals and categories to find a special page.
 * I use structural pages like portals and categories to get a broader view over some topic.
 * Other (please specify).
 * I use my personal watch list to be kept informed about certain issues.
 * I use my personal watch list because I feel responsible for certain topics.
 * Other (please specify).

Which kinds of pages do you keep on your watch list? (self-created pages, important pages or both).

Please finish the following sentences:
 * I search information on this wiki because...
 * I contribute to this wiki because…
 * I am logged in at this wiki because…

62.46.17.176 05:20, 15 Apr 2005 (EDT)