We already know that ~ 60/70% of the respondents will be new users, meaning that they will probably not understand properly what you're talking about. The WLM upload infrastructure has been built in such a way that we don't push the license too much in their face, but only inform them that they are releasing it etc - we don't push a choice to them. I don't expect any reliable answers from such a question (or any license related question). If the intended audience were primarily wikimedians, that might be different.
If any question around free licensing would be appropriate, it would probably be finding out whether it was a hurdle for them - do they consider releasing stuff under a free license a problem? But even about that I'm very doubtful whether it is worth the confusion and extra question.
Lodewijk
2013/8/25 Karthik Nadar karthikndr@gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
2013/8/25 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
Hi Karthik,
what exactly would you like to accomplish with that question? What information would you like to collect, and what would you like to do
with
that information? The longer a survey gets the less people fill it out,
so
I'm always in favor of reducing the number of questions where possible.
One
way of doing that is by removing questions where we already know we
will not
actually act upon the results.
Lodewijk
Maybe this question could be turn that way : “What licence did you chose ?” It is useful to know how many people stay with the default licence and how many change it (and at the same time increase the awareness of free licences which is important but maybe not enough in itself to be in this survey). If many people change the licence, we could act to change the the default licence.
This one sounds better too. All I wanted to play with the license, and this one sounds appropriate. We can make sure to know, with which license people are more comfortable with.
Cdlt, ~nicolas
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