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On 15/02/13 08:34 PM, James Salsman wrote:
Would you please say why? What do you see as advantages and disadvantages of learning the community's expectations about the frequency of actions taken in support of editors?
Stepping in here as devil's advocate: can you suggest a reasonable methodology for sampling and weighting the diverse communities which make up the WMF's projects, donors, and non-active readers? My experience with population survey research suggests this would be a non-trivial task at the macro level. Perhaps such a survey might be conducted in a given community, but if so that community should be the source of the survey (or at least the impetus for its development.)
As someone occasionally involved in population research, there are a number of questions I would have about learning the community's expectations regarding frequency of actions, including what instrument would be used, where/how it was normed, and the reasoning suggesting the instrument would have sufficient validity and reliability, as well as sensitivity and specificity, when applied to WMF communities.
The above basically means creating and running a survey is not as simple as "Hey, I wonder what people think about X, let's ask 'em!". It also isn't really a topic regarding advocacy.
Amgine