Good survey, I especially liked how you reassured people as to what you'd use their information for and that you only asked them their year of birth.  I hope you don't mind but I've forwarded this to the rest of the research committee and I hope that we will get more feedback from them.

Q9 needs an "It was fun!" option because previous surveys have found this to be one of the most common motives of our volunteers. I'd also suggest an option of "I'm proud of my photos and wanted others to see and use them", plus Els' suggestion which maybe could be worded as "I wanted to document the heritage of my area".

May I suggest you add questions to find out whether people have used these photos in Wikipedia, whether they have used the Quality featured process and what other topic areas they might be interested in participating in. You could word these as

Question W Have you added any of the photos you took to Wikipedia?

1 Yes
2 No, the monument I photographed doesn't have an article on Wikipedia
3 No, the Monuments I photographed already have pictures in their Wikipedia article.
4 No, I'm not sure how to do that.
5 No, not yet but I might in future.

Question X Have you submitted any photographs for consideration as Featured or Quality images in Wikimedia Commons?

1 Yes
2 No, I don't know about those processes
3 No, My camera isn't good enough to create that quality of photograph
4 No, I don't think any of my photographs are up to those standards
5 No, not yet but I might in future.

Question Y Will you take part in Wikimedia loves Monuments in September 2013?

1 Yes
2 No, not unless there are more monuments designated near me.
3 Not sure.

Question Z If we ran other similar competitons would you be likely to participate?

1 Wiki loves biology - taking photos of every species of life on earth - Yes/No/Maybe
2 Wiki loves geography - taking photos of every river, beach, waterfall, mountain or other natural feature - Yes/No/Maybe
3 "Photos for Wikipedia" a contest to add relevant useful photographs to illustrate Wikipedia articles that don't currently have images Yes/No/Maybe


WSC


On 8 October 2012 08:27, Els Arends <els@wikimedia.nl> wrote:
Hi Tomasz,

Nice survey!!
Just a few things to consider:

Question8: is it possible that people who particitpated in WLM 2011 started right away in october to make new photographs? So answer 2 might be: I started right after WLM 2011 up to september 2012.

Question 9: motivation might also be found in wanting to share images of heritage in my town, village, environment or because it is useful to document heritage. The answers sound a little 'egocentric' to me, a little to much form point of view of Wikipedia instead of the point of view of the uploader.

Kind regards,

Els

2012/10/7 Tomasz W. Kozłowski <odder.wiki@gmail.com>

Hi,
in the past few days, we have been working on the participant's survey
that's planned to be sent out after the end of the competition (in
Israel). The planned date is not yet known; I would like to send it
out as soon as we have it translated into the 25 main languages of the
participating countries.

Taking last years' survey as a starting point, we have prepared 19
questions that I think would be useful to ask the participants.
Because it's always better to have some feedback on such matters
coming from a wider group of people, I would like to ask you to have a
look at it and help us make it better.

The questions are available on an Etherpad at
<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-2012-survey>; you can provide
feedback on this very mailing list, or if you feel like more private,
you can drop us an e-mail at <wlm-global-org@lists.wmnederland.nl>.

Thanks in advance for your time :-))

--
Tomasz W. Kozłowski
a.k.a. [[user:odder]]

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