Hello all,
I have uploaded the results from the *Signpost *readership survey to Wikimedia Commons in PDF format: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signpost_February_2015_survey_result...
Thanks very much to the WMF Learning and Evaluation Team for letting us use Qualtrics.
The *Signpost* management team recently agreed to cross-post selected content from the Wikimedia Blog into the *Signpost*. By doing this we can both increase the exposure of Blog content (many *Signpost *readers don't read the blog) and enhance the value of the *Signpost *to its current readers (some of whom would like to see more coverage of sister projects and other, diverse parts of the Wikimedia ecosystem).
Your comments on the survey results would be appreciated. The *Signpost *management team will have more to say after we study these results in more detail, and we will publish our comments in a future *Signpost *issue.
Cheers,
Pine *Signpost *Publication and Newsroom Manager
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I have uploaded the results from the Signpost readership survey to Wikimedia Commons in PDF format: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signpost_February_2015_survey_result...
Thanks very much to the WMF Learning and Evaluation Team for letting us use Qualtrics.
Thanks for doing this and sending it around, Pine. I just read through all the comments and it's fascinating -- some people love the op-eds and want more coverage of debates and disputes, but another large group of people want the Signpost to be neutral and stay away from drama!
I was also a little disheartened by the lackluster response about what would motivate readers to contribute -- it seems everyone agrees the Signpost is useful, but few people want to put the time into making it that way. It's true that it's a lot of work -- I wrote News & Notes for a couple of years and it was hugely time-consuming. But it was also a lot of fun!
Regardless, congratulations on keeping up the 'Post and trying to make it better.
best, Phoebe
On 2015-02-25 23:03, Pine W wrote:
Hello all,
Your comments on the survey results would be appreciated. The _Signpost _management team will have more to say after we study these results in more detail, and we will publish our comments in a future _Signpost _issue.
If anybody is interested in my opinion, I stopped reading the Signpost when a user indefinitely blocked on English Wikivoyage for trolling and disruption was asked to write an opinion piece on Wikivoyage. This by itself was not yet a crucial problem, but when the Editor-in-Chief was approached and asked whether he thinks it is fine, he answered it was perfectly fine, and no other opinion piece on Wikivoyage was needed. The piece essentially explained that Wikivoyage is a piece of junk, and editions other than the English one is such a piece of junk that no sane person would ever think contributing to them. I am not going to start reading the Signpost again anytime soon.
Cheers Yaroslav
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