ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign2 Abhinav Ghildiyal
Abstract
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model of openly editable content. Now days many people use Wikipedia because of its ease, usefulness, visibility, quality, social image, incentives and many other factors. In the similar fashion many faculty members across the world use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in recent years. In this assignment we will try to investigate what are the main factors which makes Wikipedia a likable or an unlikable tool based on the surveyed data collected from the 2 Spanish universities, by surveying the faculty members of those universities.
Theme of Interest
In the context of Wiki4HE assignment, i am undertaking an investigation on the perception of the faculty members towards the use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool and do a study on their attitude towards Wikipedia. I have specifically selected the Profile and Sharing Attitude to answer the following question -
- What are the perceptions of people about contributing to Wikipedia ?
- How many people participate in social network and what is their perception about social networking ?
- Perception about publishing the work in open platforms ?
- How the perception of people change with Age and PhD degree?
- Perception when it comes to gender and domain ?
- How perception of people change when they are registered users of Wiki across all age types ?
Data Preparation
The data for this assignment is taken from the UCI Machine Learning Repository
