Dear Mike I have compiled quite a number of surveys in my time and would be happy to go through the questions with you. Kind regards D'Arcy
On 13 May 2015 at 22:13, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > tl;dr summary: I'm planning to run a survey about wikimeets in the near > future. Do you have any comments/suggestions on the draft? See: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey > > At a recent meetup, a Wikipedian who was new to wikimeets pointed out that > the event had the air of a gentleman's club about it. Looking around at the > high-back comfy chairs, the Victorian-era interior decorations, the pints > of real ale, and the mostly-male (and regular) attendees, I couldn't really > disagree with their assessment. This started me thinking: are there better > venues and times to hold meetups, or better ways of advertising/inviting > people to planned meetups? What would make them more open and inviting to > new editors, or the many long-term editors that have never attended a > meetup? > > As an experiment to try to improve the attendance and advertising of > wikimeets in the North of England, a few months ago I posted messages on > the talk pages of previous wikimeet attendees about the last Leeds and > Manchester wikimeets, and the Liverpool wikimeet coming up this weekend. > There was, unexpectedly, a pretty good response, with a number of people > signing up to attend the wikimeets. I'm not sure whether it was a direct > consequence or not, but we had a long-term editor attend the last > Manchester wikimeet who hadn't previously attended a wikimeet. I couldn't > attend the last Leeds wikimeet: was anyone there and able to say whether it > made a difference or not? I'm hoping that the irregular wikimeet attendees > who have signed up for the Liverpool meetup will be there! > > It also started a longer conversation with Iridescent [1], which led to > the idea of having some sort of a UK-wide notifications list. During that > conversation, I started drafting a survey of past and potential wikimeet > attendees with the aim of getting some quantified and actionable answers > about how to improve wikimeets, and also improve communication about > wikimeets. The latest draft of the survey is at: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimeet_survey > > Amongst other things, the survey draft asks about how people get to > wikimeets; when and where wikimeets should be held; what activities should > take place at wikimeets; and how notifications about an upcoming meetup > would ideally be circulated. > > I'm hoping to run this survey soon, so if you are interested in improving > the survey questions then please send me an email or post on the talk page > before the end of the month! In particular, if you currently organise (or > regularly attend) wikimeets, then I'd greatly appreciate your > input/feedback about the survey questions before it goes live. Ideally the > survey would be run in association with WMUK, but given the recent turmoil > I'm not sure if this will be possible, so I'll run it myself unless WMUK > expresses an interest in helping out with it! > > Thanks, > Mike > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent/Archive_17#Next_meetups_in_North_England > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- *D'Arcy C..F. Myers - Interim Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Direct Dial: (0044) 207 065 0937 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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