Thanks for your reply, Jonathan. I was wondering if anybody has ever
conducted a systematic research on the variables that you listed.
I had a sample of the 200 editors with more edits (30 days in Sept/Oct) on
Portuguese Wikipedia, and 11 of these participated. I could have adopted
other criteria - for instance, only 34 of these are admins, 2 are bots -,
but for my purposes I just wanted a small sample with an objective
selection. Indeed, the participation rate of 5,5% was expected, but I was
wondering if there are any studies that can corroborate this.
Thanks,
Juliana
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Juliana,
Can you give a little more info about what you're looking for, and a little
context about why your asking?
I don't know of any research that has specifically asked whether there is a
difference in response rate per target group. Anecdotally (I've run a lot
of editor surveys), I can say that in my experience:
- very new editors often don't respond to surveys at a high rate,
probably because they're less committed to/invested in Wikipedia and/or
they have already lost interest (or stopped participating for other
reasons) by the time they get the survey
- how you deliver the survey matters a lot: for example, direct email
vs. talkpage message vs. newsletter/mailing list message vs. invitation
at
a live f2f event
- the topic and goal of your survey matters a lot: if it's something
that people care about, they're more likely to respond. If people feel
that
it's important or personally useful to tell you what they know or what
they
think, they're more likely to respond. If you're asking for very
personal
information, or information that is not clearly relevant to your stated
goals, they're often less likely to respond.
- who you are and why you're asking matters a lot: do the editors trust
you? do they have preconceived notions (correct or not) about who you
are,
what the data will be used for, how it will be stored and published, how
privacy and anonymity will be ensured (if applicable)... these all
matter a
whole lot.
- in general, smaller-scale surveys targeted at a very specific group
and which are clearly relevant to the expertise and goals of that group,
and follow scientific best practices for open and ethical research,
seem to
work pretty well (with all the above caveats)
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Juliana Bastos Marques <
domusaurea(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all! I am looking for any discussions/data
about participation rates
in
research surveys directed towards editors.
I'd like to see if there's a
consistent rate, or not, in responses per target group. Can anybody help
me
with this?
Thank you,
Juliana
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