Hi there. I got a note about you sending an email. I never received one. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:22, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll reply to your questions here, if that is okay.

1. No. 2. I think I started as most do, by adding something missing, then getting more involved. 3. No. 4. Female 5. It is an honour working with such intelligent people.

Thank you for the kind compliment about my userpage. Good luck with your project! I hope you join the community here longterm. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:32, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I replied to your email.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:28, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you received an email or message from me, you can feel free to create a new section with your answers! Thank you all for your input :-)

ALSO I WILL NOT BE USING ANYONE'S USERNAME IN MY RESEARCH. ANYTHING YOU TELL ME THAT I INCLUDE IN MY RESEARCH WILL BE ATTRIBUTED TO AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE.

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed one of your questionnaires and thought I would point out a characteristic of both the Wikipedia software and community norms which you may find useful. The Mediawiki software records individual edits as WP:DIFFs which show single or consecutive changes to a page. This facility allows, at all times, to know exactly what individual editors have said to each other and due to that, when editors discuss each other they make their case by providing both a narrative and linking specific diffs to support or illustrate their position. In dispute resolution this allows for matters to be objectively read by a third party as well as or as opposed to being filtered through the subjective view of the parties involved in the conflict.

This unique combination of a platform which holds a record of all interactions, even after they are no longer visible, and a culture which is used to using this facility when discussing conflicts may be of use in your study. If you ask your respondents to provide diff links along with their narrative descriptions you may find more insight into the dynamics of interpersonal and editing conflicts on Wikipedia. You can see the actual changes, unfiltered by the disputants subjective view, as well as, through their responses to you, how those interactions were perceived by them. The request also, in my opinion, would not be offensive to active editors, who are used to an ethos of "diffs or it didn't happen".

You may also be interested in some of our editor profiling tools which may give you some additional insights into your respondents and those who they were/are in conflict with. The one I use is WP:XTOOLS which can be added to your interface by a script and accessed by going to a user's User Page and selecting User --> Analysis --> XTOOLS. You can also click this link [1] and replace the user=Stelba90 with any other user name. So for instance if you wanted to see my account's history you would use user=Jbhunley, like this [2]. Some of the information returned includes how long the account has been active, how active the account is, how many edits it has made and how these edits are distributed between parts of Wikipedia - Articles, Article Talk, Wikipedia space (like deletion, policy and dispute resolution discussions) etc.

Best of luck on your project. If I can be of help please feel free to contact me on my talk page or ((ping)) me by placing ((ping|Jbhunley)) on any talk page and signing the edit with ~~~~. You may also like to take a look at WP:ANI, WP:AN and WP:ANEW where disputes and edit wars are dealt with. There is also a body of discussion at WT:HARASSMENT as well as its archives, accessed by number at the top of the page, which might be interesting to you. Jbh^Talk 02:32, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PS here is a diff of the above edit as an example [3] Jbh^Talk 02:47, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Stelba90, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!

Thank you for your interest. I answered your questions where you asked, but copied here:

Thank you for asking. I formatted your questions the Wikipedia way:

1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages?
3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
4. How would you describe your gender?
5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor?

Answers:

1. No.
2. I noticed a red link and wrote the article, which caused three more red links, which caused ... - I had no fear, my first article was promptly deleted but revived by the help of a fellow editor. [On second thought: the fellow editor happened to be male, but I like to work with male and female users, and don't need to know. I work for a project with a high percentage of writers known to be female, on top of Women in Red.]
3. No mass deletion. I think it's not a precise question: articles get vandalized, and I repair almost daily. [On second thought: "My" articles - the articles I write, we don't own them - are rarely vandalized, but I watch and repair many others.] As a user, no vandalism.
4. Female
5. I love the collaboration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Stephanie, thank you for your message. The question "how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world" is very interesting. I would like to learn more about your project.

As for myself, I'm an italian editor, active mainly on the italian Wikipedia. Sorry for my english, I try to do my best.

Here are my answers to your questions:

1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. I have no experience of edit war.

2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? Some years ago, I was looking for something that I didn't find in the italian Wikipedia. I thought: I can do that, I can write a page on that subject. No fears, no hesitations. Writing a page in Wikipedia is very easy. There are rules, you have to respect that.

3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. In my experience, I haven't been a victim of vandalism, but I'm aware that it is an important issue.

4. How would you describe your gender? Woman.

5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? If someone is fond of culture, Wikipedia is an amazing experience. It's fantastic that everybody can contribute in a way or another to this free, huge cultural project.

Thank you again for your message. It would be great if you could send me a copy of your final work. Ciao :) --Kenzia (talk) 14:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]