On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
It's normal, when you hire a company for a survey, you mention the company, for various reasons.
Ziko,
This is true, of course; but it does not address what is under discussion here.
It is also normal for partnership agreements to include specifications of how those mentions are carried out to meet certain objectives, while also avoiding problems for both parties. With nearly every one of my clients, this is specified by either an informal or a formal contract, prior to the announcement or commencement of the project.
Regrettably, it is also rather normal for the Wikimedia Foundation to pay insufficient attention to such arrangements. This leaves volunteers in the position of cleaning up the mess, and sometimes, of playing the role of the "bad guy" whose image suffers from telling somebody that they can't have what they want.
since when wikipedia needs to use some arbitrary 3rd party company to conduct a simple survey? i'd consider it a core competency of a social website like wikipedia to allow finding out the opinion and a consensus of contributors and readers, anonymous and not anonymous.
rupert