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 <email(a)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_…
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