Hi,
Once upon a time, the Multimedia team set out on a great quest [0] to
add a survey to the Media Viewer they were building. This quest ended
with the team deciding that the great Lord SurveyMonkey would provide
the users the survey they needed with the least amount of effort, and
there was much rejoicing.
But a dark threat loomed over the land. With one product using SurveyMonkey,
other products seemed poised to use it, too [1]. The compromise built
upon the premise that Media Viewer needed a survey in less time than it
would take to find and set up a free [2] solution was beginning to bleed
over into other projects where no such time crunch was present.
Our heroes now reach out to their friends in other realms [3]. Is there
hope for freedom in the land of getting user feedback? Will MediaWiki
or the grander Wikimedia ecosystem soon have a survey tool that all projects
can use with minimal hassle?
I'd appreciate looking at existing solutions and planned non-existing
ones, and I offer some of my ample [4] free time to help with setting
something up.
[0]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/261
[1]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/522
[2]
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[3]
http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics
[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Cheers,
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist