Ciao Ilario,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:16 PM Ilario valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
Any study is interesting, but if it could be country-based, it would be better.
We agree with you that the country component is quite important. There is some ongoing engineering work to make the feature available in QuickSurvey [1] which is the extension we use. If it gets ready, we will include at least some sampling by country.
Let me give you a couple of reasons why from our perspective sampling by country is key: * Understanding readers from countries such as Nigeria is hard through English Wikipedia as the traffic in enwiki is dominated by other countries. In order to get enough responses from Nigeria, we have to ask many more questions from the rest of the world which is not something we want to do. * Many chapters are organized by geographical regions and learning about the readers in their geography can empower them in new ways. * If we have enough responses from different countries, we can have more accurate debiasing steps. For example, if we have enough data from country x, we can look at the age distribution of respondents and see if that age distribution matches the age distribution from that country based on external databases available. If not, we can try to correct for the differences, or at least be aware of the caveats.
Best, Leila [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickSurveys
Kind regards
On 06/03/2019 22:12, Leila Zia wrote:
Hi all,
As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be running reader surveys across a number of Wikipedia languages to learn about the reader needs and motivations in these languages as well as some of their demographic information (and perhaps the correlations between demographics and user motivations and characteristics).
If your language community is interested to have statistics on the distribution of reader gender, age, education, native language, and geographic region (rural/urban) in your language (and depending on how much data we collect in your language, perhaps more insights), this is your chance to indicate interest at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reade...
I initially communicated 2019-02-15 as the deadline to sign up. Since then, we have run a pilot test on enwiki and we are investigating some of the results to see if any changes in the survey questions are needed. You have now time until 2019-03-15 to indicate interest.
As always: this call is primarily a service to your language community. If you like it, take action on it. If you don't, no action is needed. :)
Best, Leila
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-February/091762.html
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