User talk:Johnpaulmcvea

Greetings. Thank-you for visiting and thank-you for your interest in my university research. Please leave me a message.

Re: Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
I'd be happy to participate. Best, Matthewedwards : Chat  04:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi John-Paul, I'd be happy to participate in your study! Let me know what you need from me...Adamkriesberg 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Same here. Swarm  u /  t 20:31, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Fine with me too. Cheers, Antandrus  (talk) 21:16, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Me too.   Ebe 123   (+) $talk Contribs$ 22:08, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure.  Spencer T♦ C 22:16, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay. Alexius  Horatius  22:25, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Another survey! Fun! --  T H F S W  (T · C · E) 22:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, sure. —  Kudu ~I/O~ 22:53, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:41, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Happy to help! Bob the WikipediaN  (talk • contribs) 02:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 12:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Another interesting project on wikipedia. Sure!  auntieruth (talk) 02:59, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'd be willing to assist in your research. I also request a copy of your report upon completion. Useight (talk) 15:19, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, I would love to participate. I would also be interested in reading your report when it's finished.  ~  Matthewrbowker   Say hi!  15:41, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, go ahead. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 21:52, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Alpha Quadrant   talk    21:46, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Ebe 123  (+) $talk Contribs$ 23:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Survey
Hey, I saw your proposal on another user's page. I guess you just chose 20 users at random or something. I hope all 20 respond! If not, your welcome to look at my page. Its a little spartan, but it does have a link to my website, which may or may not be helpful to your survey. Best of luck to you. Jessemv (talk) 05:28, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I concur. You're welcome to take a look at my userpage to help increase the sample size. As a note, my userpace will, in the future, look something like this (not finished with all the details yet).→ Σ  τ  c . 05:34, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank-you both. Please see your user talk pages -- I'll get in touch there.  Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 20:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

If you'd be interested in including a user page that does virtually nothing to communicate with other Wikipedians, feel free to include mine.--~TPW 16:47, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Message Wikifing
I think that you should change your message with the questions to {{collapse|

Thank-you for your interest in my study
Thank-you for your interest in my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I appreciate it.

If you would like to participate, please answer these five short questions about your user page. These will help me to understand your motivations for creating a user page such as yours. Please be as brief or as thorough as you like. I will read and analyze your user page as well. A full description of my study is included below the questionnaire.

Thank-you again!

5 QUESTIONS

 * 1) Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?
 * 2) In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles?  If so, about how many times?
 * 3) What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?
 * 4) Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on?  Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user?  If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?
 * 5) Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?”  Can you elaborate?

Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. Please respond by October 1st so that I have time to properly read your responses. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead here.

Thank you again : )

~

Background

 * I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree.
 * I am asking you because you have created a user page in Wikipedia that other people can use to learn about you.

Purpose

 * My research is about how people present themselves online.
 * I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Wikipedia community.

Study Procedures

 * With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on.
 * I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet.
 * I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete.  I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me.
 * Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm

Benefits

 * There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online.
 * I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society.
 * There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research.

Risk

 * There is no direct risk for participating in this research.

Voluntary Participation

 * You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary.
 * You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you.  Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw.
 * If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request.

Confidentiality

 * This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree.
 * A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website.
 * Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you.
 * Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data.  It will be password protected.  It will not be sent by email or stored online.
 * I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards.
 * If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask.

Further Information

 * If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators.

INDICATING CONSENT
By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements:
 * That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study.
 * That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”).
 * That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study.
 * That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study.
 * That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request.
 * That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”).
 * That you agree to participate.

Thank-you again! ~ }}

This is a wikifyed version. Ebe 123  (+) $talk Contribs$ 19:14, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I even though I was committed in my study to using a specific questionnaire, including specific, non-wiki formatting, I do appreciate this. Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 22:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Your request
Hi John, I am more than willing to help out with your research. It would also be nice to see the final product. Please let me know what you need from me. Regards, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 22:12, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Study
John, I've sent the email as requested; please let me know when this study is completed, as I would be interested in reading the results! Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 17:53, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Bob, Thank-you for being a part of my study -- I really appreciate it. Somehow, your answers did not arrive in my inbox.  Can you double-check the address you sent them to?  jmcvea@ualberta.ca is my email address from the University of Alberta.  Another one to try is johnpaul.mcvea@gmail.com.  I'm not sure what happened to your results, but I would not to not get them and include them after you took the trouble of answering them.  Can you please try again to send them?  Thank-you.

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 18:13, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay; I've resent it to your Gmail. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 17:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Got it -- thanks very much for your thoughtful replies.

Your recent edits
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Survey completed at my talk page
FYI. Good luck with your study, – xeno talk 20:22, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I really appreciate this. Thanks for your participation.  Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 20:27, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Good luck with your study! Swarm  21:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Userpage study
Hello, sure, I would be willing to participate. (Maybe I should remove the stupider parts of my userpage first though, haha...) Adam Bishop (talk) 10:43, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

TPW's response

 * 1) Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?
 * 2) *Are there still people with Myspace accounts? Heck, even Tom Anderson joined Facebook!  In all seriousness, though, the answer is yes to social networking - I use Diaspora.
 * 3) In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles?  If so, about how many times?
 * 4) *I've made over 3,000 edits to articles, include less than a dozen that I started myself. Although I write for fun and profit, on Wikipedia my edits tend to be just improvements to accuracy, working, or citation style.
 * 5) What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?
 * 6) *I hope to convey that I'm more interested in contributing to content than to the community as a whole. At times my user page has been chock full of stuff; these times track fairly closely to times when I have been very involved in community activities such as deletion discussions, administrator promotions, and WikiProject coordination.  All those activities have value, but I have found that they can suck up your time and leave very little left for actually improving the encyclopedia.  I hope my page says, "Nothing to see here, folks; move along and make an article better."  Wikipedia is not unlike a corporation insofar as the very best article writers tend to be moved into positions where they don't have as much time to contribute directly anymore (administrators and such); I don't think I'm even remotely one of the best article contributors, but I do think I'm better at that than I am at behind-the-scenes stuff.
 * 7) Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on?  Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user?  If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?
 * 8) *I can't imagine a Wikipedian making an edit that wasn't followed up by someone else editing the same page. I've had talk page interactions many times, and I've received a couple of [WP:BARNSTARS|barnstars]] along the way.  I think the actual words I choose for my edits, edit summaries, and talk page comments impact how people react to me far more than my user page ever would.
 * 9) Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?”  Can you elaborate?
 * We all write differently than we speak, and we tend to interpret the writing of others using the tone of voice that we might use to say the same thing. My online self is definitely different because it's largely created in the minds of other users.  Offline, I can do a lot better job of conveying the "real me" because I get to use fun things like body language.  I have a dry, somewhat sarcastic wit, which runs a higher risk of being taken negatively online than off.

Thank you for the opportunity to participate.--~TPW 12:30, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank _you for your thoughtful responses : ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.84.104.146 (talk) 14:26, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Re: "largely created in the minds of other users" – really great point. I'd never really thought of it that way. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 00:05, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Ultraexactzz's Response
1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?
 * Facebook. It's possible that an old myspace account still exists, but I have not used that service in several years.

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?
 * I have close to 20,000 edits, 3200 of which were to articles. Most prominently, I worked on several articles while they were under Featured Article Review, with a goal of keeping them as Featured Articles; these are indicated on the user page.

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?
 * The most critical piece of information about me is that I am an administrator - and, thus, am available if an editor should require assistance. It also provides a link to verify that I am indeed listed as an administrator. The remaining information is very general - how long I've edited, things I've done, etc.


 * Much of the userpage is intended not so much to aid others in figuring out who I am, so much as to provide me with convenient information about what is going on with the project. The shortcut bar across the top has links to various pages where I do admin work, and a list of useful categories with the number of articles/pages in each category (Speedy Deletion nominations, for example, or Requests for Unblocking). I also have a list of Arbitration cases and Requests for Adminship - both pages I am interested in, but don't want to have to check daily. Having the templates here removes that need; I can click through if I see an interesting case or candidate pop up.

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?


 * I've received comments, and I don't think that the userpage had a great deal of impact on how those comments were presented. I've also received vandalism to my userpage, but I don't think the format or contents of the page caused that vandalism, so much as my admin actions somewhere else.

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?


 * Yes and No. I don't believe I react differently here, online, than I would to similar situations offline. I've always been more comfortable with the written word, so I would imagine that how I communicate is subtly different here - but that's a question of medium, not of persona. I do try to distance my real-world life from my presence on Wikipedia, but again that does not speak to differences between the two - rather, it's a function of limiting drama in general. Note that, apart from the occasional administrator drama, I stay far away from areas where real-life characteristics come into play (as with articles dealing with nationalities, for example).

Thank you again for including me. If it ends up in a convenient format, please send me a copy of the finished project. Thanks, and Good Luck. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 18:05, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem -- thanks for your participation. I've made a note to myself to send you a copy of the finished product -- that will be around mid-November.  Thanks again. Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 18:55, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

SMcCandlish's response
— SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 00:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Got 'em -- thanks : )

Inline response
I have posted my responses inline on my talk page. Regards, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 14:52, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank-you : )

5 questions
I consent to all the things.
 * 5 QUESTIONS

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?
 * Yes.

'''2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?'''
 * I've edited several thousand articles. I've done about 10 featured articles and a good bit of work on other articles. I believe I have around 5,000 edits.  This was a few years ago now.

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?
 * I just wanted to convey why I edited Wikipedia. I've not been active for awhile but when I wrote the page I thought the writing an encyclopedia was a worthwhile way to volunteer my time, and were I to find myself with more free time, I'd likely go back to volunteering on the project. I did wish to convey that I was more interested in writing an encyclopedia than governing an encyclopedia.  A great deal of the busy editors at Wikipedia prefer governing to writing, and this has led to mindless proliferation of administrative tasks for the self-appointed corps of governors, known as admins or sysops.  I wished to establish that I was just someone who enjoyed volunteering to write the thing.

'''4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?'''
 * Yes, of course. So, experienced Wikipedians look at user pages as a signaling mechanism to determine if someone is versed in the ins-and-outs of Wikipedia's processes and community. My user page signals, for example, that I did a lot of work on a variety of articles. My page has a number of design elements that show my familiarity with the Wikipedia community and Wikipedia editing.  Therefore, when an experienced sysop visits my userpage, she can see that I'm not some jokester or troublemaker or hooligan.  Most Wikipedia administrators have at least a begrudging tolerance for content editors.  A handful of admins even recognize that content editing is required to create and maintain content.

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?
 * Although Jay Henry actually is my real name, nobody calls me "Jay Henry" offline, so it may as well be a pseudonym in some senses. I've provided a limited window into my offline hobbies, interests, life and career.  Wikipedia is a bizarre environment and its interactions and culture don't resemble anything in the "offline" world.  The people I interact with in my day-to-day life do not know of my Wikipedia hobby, with one or two exceptions, and the Wikipedians I volunteered with don't know anything about my day-to-day life, again with only a few exceptions.  My interests as a Wikipedian are different than my interests offline, and so on.  This is quite a bit different from Facebook, where I only interact with people who are my actual "offline" social network.  For example, my Facebook has a picture of my smiling face, rather than of a hippo's mighty maw.


 * I do hope this is helpful for your research. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. --JayHenry (talk) 02:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Survey Response
Hey, I sent my response to your university email address. Please let me know if I can be of any more help.~ Matthewrbowker   Say hi!  19:11, 1 October 2011 (UTC)


 * and again ~  Matthewrbowker   Say hi!  00:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

survey response
sorry, I didn't see this. Hope this helps. I'm trying to finish diss, and I forgot to look! auntieruth (talk) 22:52, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace? Yes

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times? I don't know. Several thousand edits? At least 100 articles?

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page? Competency, approachability, interest.

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it? Yes, I have rec'd a lot of feedback. Some of it is in [|this page] and some of it is listed here [|on my main page]. Feedback is essential for scholarship.

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate? No, not really.

Research!
Hi! This is User:Cymru.lass. In September you posted on my talk page about including my user page in your study. That would be fine by me. Sorry I didn't respond earlier; this is the first time I've logged in to Wikipedia in a while! You can contact me through Special:EmailUser/Cymru.lass. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:41, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi John Paul, I also missed the deadline for your responses. Sorry about that. I hope you got the responses you needed. -Pete (talk) 01:33, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Survey
Goodness. Sorry I'm responding so late! I've been logging in every now and then in the past couple of months but I hadn't bothered to check my messages. Yes, it would be okay to use my page as part of your survey if it isn't already too late. Please let me know if you need anything.

Full Shunyata (talk) 03:31, 29 November 2011 (UTC)