2011/3/11 Mani Pande <mpa...@wikimedia.org>: > > >> 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.
...Except the results will be based only on the answers of people who have patience for a 20-minute survey. It's the year 2011 - in 20 minutes i receive about 20 emails and i have to read them and answer them. Does the Foundation knowingly want to exclude busy people from this survey? I noticed the "Take a WMF-sponsored survey on barriers to expert participation in Wikipedia." banner on the top of English Wiktionary the other day. I clicked it and answered a whole page of questions that were interesting and relevant. And the next page presented the same bunch of questions again, somewhat rephrased. I hate it when that happens and i immediately closed the survey; my answers to the relevant questions on the first page probably went to the drain. Please consider breaking the twenty-minute into five four-minute surveys conducted along several months. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > 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. > >> 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. > > If you have more feedback, please post it on the wiki. > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
