As a consequence of the promotion of a Google forms based survey this week by a WMF representative, a proposal on Wikimedia Commons has been started to ban the promotion of surveys which rely on third party sites like Google Forms.[1] Launched today, but already it appears likely that this proposal will have a consensus to support. Considering that Commons is one of our largest Wikimedia projects, there are potential repercussions of banning the on-wiki promotion of surveys which use Google products or other closed source third party products like SurveyMonkey. Feedback is most welcome on the proposal discussion, or on this list for handling impact, solutions, recommended alternatives that already exist, or the future role of the WMF to support research and surveys for the WMF and affiliates by using forking open source software and self-hosting and self-managing data "locally". Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Use_of_of… Thanks Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae #WearAMask