2011/3/11 Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs>: > On 03/11/2011 10:52 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> 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 > > This is sometimes done so that if someone is not seriously answering the > form, the answers to similar questions will be different, and so they > may be disregarded. But yeah, experts are probably not going to not > seriously answer the form.
I know - it's not the first time i see a survey with repeated questions and it's not the first time i fill up a long one. But sometimes enough is enough. Experts may be severely offended by the thought that someone suspects they aren't seriously answering the form. I certainly was and i'm just a B.A.; i suspect that many Ph.D.'s gave up long before i did. >> relevant questions on the first page probably went to the drain. > > You could've just clicked 'Next' to the end. The simple answer: Maybe, but how could i know that? The smartass answer: Maybe, but how could i know that after clicking 'Next' i wouldn't be presented with a stupid JavaScript error message, punishing me for clicking 'Next' before filling the required fields? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
