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(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:

Hi Tomasz I wasn't aware of previous surveys to WLM participants, I was thinking of previous surveys of Wikipedians and Wikimedians. One key finding has been that people volunteer because they enjoy doing so, and that it is the most important motive for our community. As for survey length, I wouldn't be too concerned about the length as long as the questions are interesting and relevant to the participants, and crucially they don't have to put the survey on hold and ask someone else before answering a particular question (I didn't spot such problems in your survey but generally the longer a survey the greater the risk that someone asks such a question). WSC On 8 October 2012 15:13, Tomasz W. Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8 October 2012 17:12, Platonides wrote: Just did that, thanks for the suggestion. Ah, looks like I forgot about this one, but I was mostly thinking about organised results (with graphs, etc.), not just about answers put into an Excel file; I can vaguely remember that there weren't too many volunteers to do that part of the job (which is understandable). Aren't we able to get this data without asking this question in the survey? I was under the impression that we can at least get a more-or-less correct number of UploadWizard uploads through the CatScan tool; I know it would also work for the VicunaUploader created by Yarl; not sure about Commonist and the old upload form. I think we can use Q14 ("What was the main obstacle, if any, for you to participate in the competition? If you wish, you can elaborate in detail.") for that one. I think it was also suggested by Tamara on Etherpad today, so I guess the question has some merit (no offence Tamara!), but I am not entirely convinced we should use it. We already have contact information to Wikimedia user groups that organised WLM 2010, 2011, and 2012, and have also received contact information from a lot of people from countries that did not participate yet through the blog. -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]]

I just went through the draft survey and it looks okay. Suggestion: How about making the questions stand out from the answers or options beneath them? Something like below: *Have you ever edited Wikipedia/Wikimedia before participating in Wiki Loves Monuments (the first time)?* Yes, I edited from time to time (less than five edits per month) Yes, I am a regular contributor (more than five edits per month) No, I have never tried doing that before participating in Wiki Loves Monuments. By looking, the questions appear a bit combined with the answers. rexford On Monday, October 8, 2012, Platonides wrote: -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

On 09/10/12 01:06, Nkansah Rexford wrote: You're right. I made the questions bold, and placed the explanations in italic. I'm not convinced it's final yet, but looks much better. Feel free to suggest enhancements. The questions are properly classed, so it's a matter of adding a few lines of css to style them differently. (I also added a question that I missed copying, oops!)

Wow, great form! I assume multilingual is possible? I'd be happy to help make that happen if you let me know how. For the output at multiple choise, please make sure that all translations get the English choices as output. Otherwise interpretation is like hell. Could you make the comment fields less wide and a bit longer? Can you number the questions? The second answer in "When were (most of) your submissions for 2012 taken?" should say January - August. The third option should say 2000 - 2011. I realize there's a bit of weirdness with WLM2011, but I don't think we should lead them too much to that. Lets keep it as similar to last years survey as possible here and offer similar options. At Motivation, 'Wikipedia' should be capitalized. Could we add a statement at the top that there are no obligatory questions? Thanks! Lodewijk 2012/10/9 Santiago Navarro Sanz &lt;wikimillars(a)hotmail.com&gt;

On 09/10/12 15:40, Lodewijk wrote: Yes. You can view the translation file here: http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlmsurvey/Wlmsurvey.i18n.txt It can simply be fed into translatewiki.net Don't worry. Maybe they aren't the most suited keywords, but they won't be in a dozen languages :) I adjusted it a bit. See if you like it. Numbers added. It's copied from the etherpad. I do see value in splitting at Sep (and also at the summer). Although perhaps it should be phrased differently. Fixed. It is obviously possible :) Where do you want it? Inside the introductory text or somewhere else?

Am 11.10.2012 08:51, schrieb Sylvain Machefert: Will be added to translatewiki today by me. Raimond.

Hi, I noticed the intro text no longer reflects the questions, so I think this text might be a better reflection of the questions as they are now, than the intro text in the survey today: ==Start of suggested intro text== The goal of this survey is to gather statistics about you, our valued contributors to Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. We would like to know more about you and your motivations for doing so, and your suggestions (if you have any) for the organisation of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition next year. Our goal is to use this information to improve your experience in 2013, and to make the next edition of the contest friendlier, easier, and more fun to participate in! It takes about 5 minutes to fill out this survey, and we thank you in advance for taking the time to do so. Please note that none of the questions are obligatory, and you may refrain from answering them if you feel they are too personal. We will use your answers in this survey to create anonymized statistics, and will not be using, sharing or making public any personally identifiable data under any circumstances. ==End of suggested intro text== Jane 2012/10/11 Jane Darnell &lt;jane023(a)gmail.com&gt;

On 09/10/12 10:53, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Done. I also moved them to the right of the screen. See how it looks like. Gone. Changed. Ok, changed. Yes. It will pick the language prefered by your browser amongst the available translations. Besides, you have the full translation list at the sidebar. That part is not implemented. I see a couple of options: a mysql table or saving to a file. Thanks :)