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What was on the secret page 25 of the Wikipedia Editors Survey 2011?

Here's the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fil...

Obviously, it was censored. What is the Wikimedia Foundation trying to cover up this time?

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    1 decade ago
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    It's probably just a scanner glitch that inserted a blank page by mistake (they were probably using an auto-feeder).

    But if we assume that's *not* the case, then the contents of page 25 would have to be sub-questions of Q22, since that's the last question on page 24 and Q23 is the first question on page 26. Q22 is basically, "How do you consider yourself to be different from other editors," the intent of which is to gauge the degree to which Wikipedians perceive the site to be homogenous in the sociological sense (i.e., age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, etc.).

    Most questions about the subject's own age, gender, and ethnicity are asked much earlier on in the survey, starting with page 2. But it's still possible that they wanted to ask subjects about their *perceptions* of other Wikipedia users' demographic characteristics - for example, "what do you believe is the average age of other Wikipedia users," questions like that. They might also want to censor the answers to such questions, if they indicated that those perceptions were so completely divorced from reality that anyone reviewing the survey might use them as evidence that a large number of Wikipedians are essentially self-delusional narcissists.

    However, as much as I'd like to believe that they're hiding something here, I'd have to say the chances of it being a scanner auto-feed glitch are at least 80 percent. Very few of these people are actual editors in any real sense, so it's not surprising that they wouldn't check the results of a scan-to-PDF attempt for erroneously-inserted blank pages.

  • 1 decade ago

    my guess is editors question. Do you believe 911 was an inside job ?

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