Submissions/A living survey of interest and opinions

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Title of the submission: A Living survey of public interest and opinion

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation): presentation

Author of the submission: Rob Beasley

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rob.beasley@live.com

Country of origin: Australia

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Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal): Wikipedia has the potential to demonstrate public interest (and potentially opinions) by display a summary of visitors to a topic. Basic demographics such as topic visitors by nationality, age, sex creates a living survey of public interest at a point in time. If you add the ability to store opinion unobtrusively you cultivate expression and foster democracy. Commercially, these statistics may have a value that could help meet the costs of running the Wikipedia site.

Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure): Infrastructure

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted? Yes

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