ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign2 Lim Hui Ting Jaclyn
Contents
Introduction
Questions for Investigation:
- What are the main reasons for faculty members to use Wikipedia?
- What is the profile of faculty member users of Wikipedia?
- Are there differences between faculty members solely in UOC, and faculty members in UPF, with regards to their usage of Wikipedia? And if so, why?
Data
The data was taken from Wiki4HE. It consists of survey questions that were given to university faculty members, in order to find out about the perception and practices of them using Wikipedia.
The attribute table can also be found from Wiki4HE.
AGE: numeric
GENDER: 0=Male; 1=Female
DOMAIN: 1=Arts & Humanities; 2=Sciences; 3=Health Sciences; 4=Engineering & Architecture; 5=Law & Politics
PhD: 0=No; 1=Yes
YEARSEXP (years of university teaching experience): numeric
UNIVERSITY: 1=UOC; 2=UPF
UOC_POSITION (academic position of UOC members): 1=Professor; 2=Associate; 3=Assistant; 4=Lecturer; 5=Instructor; 6=Adjunct
OTHER (main job in another university for part-time members): 1=Yes; 2=No
OTHER_POSITION (work as part-time in another university and UPF members): 1=Professor; 2=Associate; 3=Assistant; 4=Lecturer; 5=Instructor; 6=Adjunct
USERWIKI (Wikipedia registered user): 0=No; 1=Yes
The 43 survey items are ranked on a Likert scale (1-5) ranging from strongly disagree / never (1) to strongly agree / always (5).
