Hello Research,
I would like to setup surveys at Wikimedia Deutschland. Currently we have google forms as a possiblity. We wonder if there are any other solutions which are ideally open source and/or self hostable. What I found was https://www.limesurvey.org/de/ – I wonder if anybody has experiences with that.
Jan
I personally like Qualtrics. I believe that Jaime Anstee may let you borrow a WMF Qualtrics license if you ask her.
Pine
On Aug 2, 2016 06:04, "Jan Dittrich" jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello Research,
I would like to setup surveys at Wikimedia Deutschland. Currently we have google forms as a possiblity. We wonder if there are any other solutions which are ideally open source and/or self hostable. What I found was https://www.limesurvey.org/de/ – I wonder if anybody has experiences with that.
Jan
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If you dont have complex needs for the types of fields, and dont need complex skipping of some irrelavant questions, Open Data Kit is very good, with i18n and field value validation.
In addition to normal web ui, it has a mobile app which can be used offline, which can be used to collect many responses in person , e.g. at a conference. Or for survey participants to send period reports , e.g. gauging someones feelings over a period of time, or letting them easily record a standardised response when a trigger event occurs.
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 20:04 Jan Dittrich, jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello Research,
I would like to setup surveys at Wikimedia Deutschland. Currently we have google forms as a possiblity. We wonder if there are any other solutions which are ideally open source and/or self hostable. What I found was https://www.limesurvey.org/de/ – I wonder if anybody has experiences with that.
Jan
-- Jan Dittrich UX Design/ User Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
LimeSurvey is easy to use, has good i18n and has affordable hosted solutions. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94807 for a discussion of the topic with some comparisons (John, you may want to add Open Data Kit).
Nemo
A note that WMF had security issues in the past with Limesurveys. I believe these were fixed, but I'm not sure.
We use qualtrics at the WMF for any major surveys and we do share our account with affiliates & other communities. However, we do have a limit of 2,000 per user.
Happy to chat more about this Jan!
Best, Edward
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the helpful replies. It is great to hear that I can possibly get a qualtrics access. It is good to build on a product the organization has experience with. I wonder if qualtrics adheres to EU privacy laws. Ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94807 states it does not. That would be sad.
Lime survey seems to be an OK option, in particular after Frederico’s response. I fear the security problems, too, though. (On the other hand, on a quick glance https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-6900/Limesurvey.html does not look significantly worse than other products)
ODK seems to be an interesting tool, but its focus on on-site data gathering in contrast to web forms makes me wonder how I would use it for my most common use cases (at which I'm not on-site).
As a bit of an abstract remark, it is a pity that there seem to be few open source options and that it seems often to be a more viable solution to resort to a non-open service. I suppose that would be a highly interesting question to discuss with other open organizations which also seem to have the same issue (Mozilla comes to my mind, but it won't be just them).
Jan
2016-08-02 19:36 GMT+02:00 Edward Galvez egalvez@wikimedia.org:
A note that WMF had security issues in the past with Limesurveys. I believe these were fixed, but I'm not sure.
We use qualtrics at the WMF for any major surveys and we do share our account with affiliates & other communities. However, we do have a limit of 2,000 per user.
Happy to chat more about this Jan!
Best, Edward
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Jan Dittrich jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
ODK seems to be an interesting tool, but its focus on on-site data gathering in contrast to web forms makes me wonder how I would use it for my most common use cases (at which I'm not on-site).
Hi Jan,
On-site data gathering is not its focus, nor is it the primary/original use.
fwiw, there is also a Android app which provides these offline features for LimeSurvey, but it is not open source.
It is great to hear that I can possibly get a qualtrics access. It is good to build on a product the organization has experience with. I wonder if qualtrics adheres to EU privacy laws. Ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94807 states it does not. That would be sad.
I believe this is not entirely accurate, but I am not a lawyer or know about local EU laws. We are working on posting some guidance on what kind of legal review/support is needed when doing a survey, so hopefully that will be helpful. I will post this guidance here when it is ready (should be within the week I think).
Thanks! Edward
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