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Wikimani a Buenos Aires 2009

Teachers and Wikipedia – A story of Love or Hate? Einar Spetz (SWE)

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Below: Sweden Stockholm county (darker blue)

Above: Projection of Europe. Scandinavia circled 2

Sweden

The Greater Stockholm Area

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2008 - 2009

2007 - 2008

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Upper secondary school in Sweden Pupils: 16 – 19 years old 30.971 teachers on the national level 4459 teachers in Stockholm county This Study: 266 teachers ≈ 6 percent of teachers in Stockholm county ≈ 0,086 percent of all teachers in SWE

af:Hoërskool cs:Střední škola da:Videregående skole de:Weiterführende Schule en:Secondary school eo:Mezlernejo fa:‫دبیرستان‬ fi:High school he:‫בית ספר תיכון‬ hr:Srednja škola ja: 高等学校 ko: 고등학교 nl:Voortgezet onderwijs no:Videregående skole nn: Vidaregåande skule pl:Szkoła średnia pt:Ensino secundário simple:Secondary school sk:Stredná škola th:ไฮสคูล tl:Mataas na paaralan tr:Lise zh: 高級中學 zh-yue: 中學 5

Why study teachers? Absence of facts / Popular understandings about teachers and WP: Strict Advising against Wikipedia's content Other reason

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Swedish language version WP Then 290 000 entries One of the big ten – not 8

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most visited site by Swedish internet users (Alexa) 7

Questionnaire

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Sweden

The Greater Stockholm Area

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Table 4. Teachers using other online encyclopedias?

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Table 6. What do teachers think? Do pupils find Wikipedia reliable?

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Teachers and Wikipedia A story of use and trust? Teachers use Wikipedia Find it reliable Use it more than other reference tools Don't tell Believe themselves surrounded by Wikipedia critics

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Reception Noted by a few bloggers http://www.skolvarlden.se/Article.jsp?article=3182

http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/bbl/bbl2009/Biblio Detected only little interest

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