On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mani Pande <mpa...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > > MzMcBride wrote: > > > "After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the > > survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence > > that anything of value will come from this (beyond lessons of what not to > do > > next time)." > > > Based upon my experience having conducted surveys and quantitative > research for over 12 years, this is a very incorrect assessment of the > survey. The survey answers questions that are important to the > foundation, and will help us understand the editor community so we can > provide them an engaging editing environment, ensure we can increase > their needs to increase retention and increase the diversity among > editors. As for Lime Survey, it is a great open source tool that is able > to meet all our needs. Again based upon my experience, a 20 minute > survey is standard for most surveys. A learning from our last survey was > that our community is very engaged and I believe the length of the > survey is the least of our problems. > Boom. > > > The pool of people who will click the banner is already fairly small. The > > people who will want to start a 20-minute survey is even smaller. > > > > When we did UNU-Merit which was a similar length, we got over 100,000 > complete responses so your assessment that the pool is fairly small is > unsubstantiated. > Roasted. > > If you have more feedback, please post it on the wiki. > Nice. > Mani > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I like your style already, Mani. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
