On 02/11/2012 18:16, Tilman Bayer wrote:
Yes, the survey invitation banner has been activated on the English Wikipedia continuously since Wednesday, for logged-in users. (It's a CentralNotice banner rather than a watchlist notice which would show only on your watchlist.) It's not active on Meta.
There is some randomness involved when other banners are active at the same time (rotating), but if you have been viewing more than a couple of pages on the English Wikipedia during that time while logged in, the survey banner should have shown once. As said earlier, if you missed it or it missed you, then we are happy to send you a custom link to participate in the survey; contact us offlist as described. Thanks!
Yes, I saw the offer of a manually crafted custom link to the survey so that's not an issue. The issue for me at this point is why it isn't showing consistently. If you want the survey to be representative, someone shouldn't have to ask for the link only after seeing messages on a mailing list most editors aren't subscribed to.
I played around editing Wikidata earlier, as a result have been accessing various non-English Wikipedia. Because of that, I've finally seen those survey banners as it has appeared to me on most of the non-English Wikipedia I visit. I've been on Wikipedia and Commons among others (a lot) every day this week, and I've yet to see the banner on a English language project. That banner is huge, so I couldn't have had missed it.
Since my (and seemingly others) experience doesn't match your expectation, something's wrong.
KTC