Wikipedia Science Conference/Submissions/10 hours watching people read Wikipedia
Personal details
- Your name
John Byrne, Dr Henry Potts, Henry Scowcroft; respectively User:Johnbod, User:Bondegezou, User:HenryScow, and perhaps others.
- Affiliation
- Respectively: Formerly Wikipedian-in-residence at Cancer Research UK (CRUK), UCL, CRUK
- How can we contact you?
- email User:Johnbod on en:wp
- Where will you be travelling from to attend this conference?
All London
- Availability
JB both. Others not sure
Session details
- Conference themes
Which conference themes does your session address?
Perhaps all of: Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for promoting informed public discussion / as platforms for research (including citizen science)/ as models for scientific publishing /as platforms for scientific education
- Type of session
- Presentation (20 mins + 10 mins questions)
- Further details
10 hours watching people read Wikipedia
A preliminary report on two pieces of research, both using novel methods for research into Wikipedia. The first used qualiative methods, giving 30 subjects pancreatic cancer as a topic to research on the internet, watching and recording them do so, and then interviewing them as the screen video of the search was replayed. If they did not look at Wikipedia of their own accord, they were asked to do so at the end. Short questionnaires were filled in for each site seen for any significant period.
In the second piece, done via YouGov, 10,000 of their subjects were sent 1 out of 3 web pages to read & then answer questions about. The pages were the main page on pancreatic cancer at NHS Choices, the current Wikipedia page (a Featured article), and an old version of the Wikipedia page from early 2014, before it was improved by the Cancer Research UK Wikipedian-in-residence project.
Thank you for your proposal.