PCA/ACA 2006 National Conference. Atlanta.

April 12-15

Results – Questionnaires 2006 in Spanish and English

Sex (n=65 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Male Female
English 56 (86.15%) 9 (13.75%)
Spanish 57 (90.48%) 6 (9.52%)

Age (n=67 in EN; n=62 in SP)

Average
English 29.37 [63 the oldest; 15 the youngest]
Spanish 29.6 [63 the oldest; 12 the youngest]

Profession (n=66 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Most-frequently reported professions
English Student (29); IT (9); writer (3); retired (2)
Spanish Student (19); engineer (14), attorney and
professor (4)

Country of Origin (n=67 in EN; n=63 in SP)

English USA (41), UK (9), Europe (7), Canada (5),
México (1), USSR (1), South Africa (1),
Trinidad & Tobago (1), Japan (1)
Spanish Argentina (12), Bolivia (1), Chile (5),
Colombia (1), Spain (33), France (1),
México (2), Peru (5), Uruguay (2),
Venezuela (1)

Country of Residency (n=67 in EN; n=62 in SP)

English USA (41), UK (9), Europe (6), Canada (7),
Malaysia (1), New Zealand (1), South
Africa (1), Brazil (1)
Spanish Argentina (10), Bolivia (1), Canada (2),
Chile (5), Colombia (1), Spain (33), Israel
(1), México (2), Peru (4), Switzerland (1),
Uruguay (1), USA (1)

Native language (n=67 in EN; n=63 in SP)

English 85%; other native languages: Spanish,
Russian, Croatian, Dutch, Italian.
Spanish 100% (4 report Catalan, Asturian and
Gallego as second native language)

Other languages (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

English 22 respondants don’t speak another
language. 15 respondants (22%) speak
Spanish.
Spanish Only 7 respondants don´t speak other
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language. 47 respondants (84%) speak

English.

Level of Internet Expertise (n= 69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Beginner Intermediate Savvy
English 0 11 (15.9%) 58 (84.1%)
Spanish 0 25 (39.7%) 38 (63.3%)

Internet Access (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Home Office or Library At a Cybercafe
school someone
else's home
English 67 (97.10%) 48 (69.57%) 17 (24.64%) 7 (10.14%) 7 (10.14%)
Spanish 59 (93.65%) 37 (58.73%) 6 (9.52%) 3 (4.76%) 7 (11.11%)

Frequency (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Once a Once a week More times Every day More times
month a week every day
English 0 0 2 (2.9%) 6 (8.7%) 61 (88.4%)
Spanish 0 2 (3.2%) 1 (1.6%) 7 (11.1%) 51 (81.0%)

Hours per week (n=66 in EN; n=61 in SP)

Mean Desv. Est.
English 35.72 20.35
Spanish 19.63 15.47

Email accounts (n-69 in EN; n=62 in SP)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10+
E 15 22 23 3 2 1 1 0 0 1 1
(21.7%) (31.9%) (33.3%) (4.3%) (2.9%) (1.4%) (1.4%) (1.4%) (1.4%)
S 11 14 19 10 5 0 1 0 1 0 1
(17.7%) (22.6%) (30.6%) (16.1%) (8.0%) (1.6%) (1.6%) (1.6%)

Messenger services (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

English 45 (65.2%)
Spanish 47 (74.6%)

Own Website (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Yes Yes, another No
webmaster
English 35 (50.7%) 3 (4.3%) 31 (44.9%)
Spanish 28 (44.4%) 1 (1.6%) 34 (54.0%)

Read blogs (n=69 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Yes No
English 37 (53.6%) 32 (46.4%)
Spanish 23 (36.6%) 40 (63.4%)

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Write blogs (n=68 in EN; n=62 in SP)

Yes No
English 25 (36.8%) 43 (63.2%)
Spanish 19 (30.7%) 43 (69.3%)

Consult Wikipedia (n=68 in EN; n=62 in SP)

Mean Dev. Est.
English 24 months ago 13 months ago
Spanish 17 months ago 10 months ago

Edit Wikipedia (n=68 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Mean Dev. Est.
English 20 months ago 12 months ago
Spanish 14 months ago 8 months ago

Last edit (n=67 in EN; n=63 in SP)

Same day Day Month 2 months 3 months Earlier
before before ago ago
English 71.64% 17.91% 4.48% 0.00% 1.49% 4.48%
Spanish 73.02% 11.11% 0.11% 0.03% 0.02% 0.00%

Number of edits in the last month (n=66 in EN; n=62 in SP)

Mean Dev. Est.
English 972.09 1209.55
Spanish 469.65 484.04

Edits that are new creations (n=62 in EN; n=61 in SP)

0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 40-50% 50%+
English 45.0% 31.0% 15.0% 10.0% 0.0%
Spanish 37.7% 29.5% 18.0% 8.2% 6.6%

Edits that are modifications (n=62 in EN; n=61 in SP)

0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 40-50% 50%+
English 2.0% 8.0% 3.0% 8.0% 87.0%
Spanish 0.0% 4.9% 11.4% 18.0% 65.6%

Edits that are translations (n=60 in EN; n=59 in SP)

0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 40-50% 50%+
English 95.0% 3.0% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Spanish 42.3% 20.3% 23.7% 10.8% 3.4%

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Sources
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 N/A N
Gen. E 8% 10% 7% 14% 7% 12% 5% 8% 7% 12% 10% 59
Websites S 16% 9% 9% 5% 4% 4% 13% 5% 9% 24% 2% 55
Printed E 7% 9% 9% 11% 5% 4% 9% 9% 7% 7% 22% 50
Newsp S 6% 10% 14% 8% 8% 6% 6% 8% 2% 8% 24% 50
Online E 10% 10% 13% 6% 4% 12% 15% 6% 2% 6% 17% 52
Newsp. S 12% 6% 12% 14% 8% 6% 12% 8% 4% 0% 18% 50
Printed E 12% 9% 7% 12% 5% 2% 5% 5% 11% 7% 23% 56
Encyl. S 10% 12% 4% 6% 12% 12% 2% 14% 14% 4% 12% 51
Online E 2% 14% 7% 3% 16% 7% 14% 10% 12% 3% 12% 58
Encycl S 4% 12% 10% 8% 10% 22% 8% 8% 6% 2% 8% 49
Printed E 15% 10% 8% 5% 7% 10% 8% 8% 7% 3% 17% 59
Content S 6% 17% 8% 6% 4% 12% 15% 4% 6% 10% 13% 52
Online E 9% 13% 19% 13% 7% 13% 4% 0 9% 4% 9% 54
Content S 4% 11% 8% 8% 15% 11% 6% 11% 6% 8% 13% 53
Printed E 5% 3% 5% 5% 10% 3% 7% 8% 5% 14% 34% 59
Gov. S 4% 0% 10% 12% 6% 2% 10% 6% 14% 8% 27% 49
Online E 5% 4% 7% 7% 22% 16% 9% 7% 9% 0 13% 55
Gov S 5% 6% 12% 6% 4% 12% 10% 12% 4% 8% 22% 51
Personal E 10% 9% 7% 9% 10% 12% 5% 7% 9% 10% 12% 58
Knowl. S 12% 9% 7% 16% 11% 2% 7% 9% 11% 11% 7% 57

Contributions by type
0-10% 10-20% 20-30% 40-50% 50%+ N
Encyclopedic E 3.23% 3.23% 6.45% 25.81% 61.29% 62
content S 0.00% 3.33% 16.67% 23.33% 56.67% 60
Community E 54.24% 27.12% 13.56% 5.08% 0% 59
portal S 64.29% 25.00% 10.71% 0.00% 0.00% 56
Policies E 39.66% 37.93% 15.52% 5.17% 1.72% 58
S 59.65% 22.81% 14.04% 1.75% 1.75% 57
Technical E 51.72% 24.14% 13.79% 5.17% 5.17% 58
questions S 48.21% 12.50% 19.64% 10.71% 8.93% 56

Areas (n=163 in EN; n=167 in SP)

English Spanish
Biography 14.63% 16.77%
Sports & Entertainment 8.54% 7.19%
Construction & Design & Repair 0% 1.20%
Internet & IT 10.98% 9.58%
Politics & History 21.95% 20.36%
Business 0% 1.20%
Literature & Fine Arts 10.98% 12.57%
Education 2.44% 0.60%
Science & Nature 15.24% 11.38%
Cooking & Handcraft 0% 0.60%
Engineering 3.66% 5.99%
Travel & Geography 11.59% 12.57%

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Other topics mentioned in Spanish: Ethnography, Linguistics, Religion, Manga and

Anime. Other topics mentioned in English: Music, Religion (several times), health,
administrative duties.

Reactions to other entries and challenges to own entries

not at all not very somewhat very N/A N
Discuss E 0% 3% 21% 76% 0% 62
attacks to
S 6% 19% 28% 46% 2% 54
own
entries
Change E 2% 10% 46% 43% 0% 61
other
S 4% 35% 39% 21% 2% 57
entries
Discuss E 0% 10% 35% 55% 0% 60
other
S 4% 18% 37% 37% 5% 60
entries

Questions 29-33

Motivation

 Providing free information to the world

 Contributing to a good cause
 Personal enjoyment
 Learning
 Participating in a community (SP)

Challenges

 Vandals
 Edit wars
 Time
 Maintaining accuracy and neutrality.
 Dealing with the diverse, disorganized community and the lack of effective
governance of the same. (EN)

Rewards

 Sense of achievement
 Community interactions (SP)
 Fun

Experienced Problems

 Personal attacks
 Problems with administrators (EN)
 Dealing with fanatics
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