Hi Michal, Thanks for that info. Can you share a copy of the survey itself? It might be interesting to run a similar survey on other language Wikipedias.
Thanks, Pine On Oct 11, 2015 5:59 AM, "Michal Lester" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors > survey: > > > Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP editors. > The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable > international learning in the future. > > The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights > [1]) > and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed > differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their talk > page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 > active editors and 171 contributors participated. > > *Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women. > > Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the > contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited > diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a > conservative point of view about gender roles. > > Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively > affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia. Answering a question about how > to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, > encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women > group and providing general support. > > *New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors > wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a > continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome. > > *Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were satisfied > with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the editors > were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a > large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts > more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated that > they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only > 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that > conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way. > > Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the > development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience from > the active editors. > > *Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia > Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than > contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides > practical support to editors. > > The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community > and for Wikimedia Israel. > Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support > for editors, contributors and newbies. > > [1] The Hebrew Wikipedia has adopted a policy of deletion upon a 55% > majority, with no minimum number of votes. In these votes, only registered > users with one month seniority and at least 100 edits in the article, > image, category or template namespaces in the past 90 days can vote. > > > Michal Lester > > Executive Director > > Wikimedia Israel > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
