We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors survey:
Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP editors. The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable international learning in the future.
The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights [1]) and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their talk page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 active editors and 171 contributors participated.
*Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women.
Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a conservative point of view about gender roles.
Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia. Answering a question about how to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women group and providing general support.
*New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome.
*Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were satisfied with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the editors were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated that they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way.
Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience from the active editors.
*Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides practical support to editors.
The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community and for Wikimedia Israel. Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support for editors, contributors and newbies.
[1] The Hebrew Wikipedia has adopted a policy of deletion upon a 55% majority, with no minimum number of votes. In these votes, only registered users with one month seniority and at least 100 edits in the article, image, category or template namespaces in the past 90 days can vote.
Michal Lester
Executive Director
Wikimedia Israel
Hi Michal,
Thanks for that info. Can you share a copy of the survey itself? It might be interesting to run a similar survey on other language Wikipedias.
Thanks, Pine On Oct 11, 2015 5:59 AM, "Michal Lester" mlester@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors survey:
Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP editors. The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable international learning in the future.
The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights [1]) and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their talk page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 active editors and 171 contributors participated.
*Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women.
Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a conservative point of view about gender roles.
Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia. Answering a question about how to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women group and providing general support.
*New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome.
*Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were satisfied with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the editors were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated that they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way.
Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience from the active editors.
*Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides practical support to editors.
The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community and for Wikimedia Israel. Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support for editors, contributors and newbies.
[1] The Hebrew Wikipedia has adopted a policy of deletion upon a 55% majority, with no minimum number of votes. In these votes, only registered users with one month seniority and at least 100 edits in the article, image, category or template namespaces in the past 90 days can vote.
Michal Lester
Executive Director
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Hi, Michal- Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester mlester@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors survey:
Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP editors. The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable international learning in the future.
The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights [1]) and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their talk page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 active editors and 171 contributors participated.
*Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women.
Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a conservative point of view about gender roles.
Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia.
Did this vary by gender? i.e., do both men and women agree that low participation affects coverage?
Answering a question about how to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women group and providing general support.
*New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome.
Did this vary by age of editors? i.e., did new editors agree that new editors were welcome? :)
*Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were satisfied with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the editors were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated that they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way.
Interesting!
Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience from the active editors.
*Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides practical support to editors.
That's terrific.
The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community and for Wikimedia Israel. Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support for editors, contributors and newbies.
Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to see a model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist; hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the movement.)
Luis
Edward and Luis,
Any chance of WMF running a similar survey on ENWP?
Pine On Oct 16, 2015 9:31 AM, "Luis Villa" lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, Michal- Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester mlester@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors survey:
Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP
editors.
The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable international learning in the future.
The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights [1]) and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their
talk
page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 active editors and 171 contributors participated.
*Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women.
Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a conservative point of view about gender roles.
Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia.
Did this vary by gender? i.e., do both men and women agree that low participation affects coverage?
Answering a question about how to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women group and providing general support.
*New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome.
Did this vary by age of editors? i.e., did new editors agree that new editors were welcome? :)
*Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were
satisfied
with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the
editors
were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated
that
they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way.
Interesting!
Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience
from
the active editors.
*Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides practical support to editors.
That's terrific.
The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community and for Wikimedia Israel. Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support for editors, contributors and newbies.
Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to see a model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist; hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the movement.)
Luis
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Hey, Pine- As I think you know, I'm a fan of surveys :) And I'm pushing for more use of them in Community Engagement. But I'm hesitant to commit the team to any one specific survey. Few points about where we are on surveys:
- *Targets: We are doing surveys to English Wikipedia (e.g. comm tech and harassment), but not only English Wikipedia. We are trying to focus surveys to be more topic-specific and audience-specific, rather than for all users broadly. We have a wide spectrum of people and spaces in our movement after all (e.g. donors, readers, editors, core-contributors, affiliates, etc.) * - *Survey fatigue:* We know that if we saturate users with surveys, response rate will go down. So we'd like to make sure we're focusing on high-value surveys. - *Accountability:* If we send out a survey, we'd like there to be a very high chance we can take action on the results. That means both good survey design and making sure we're institutionally prepared to act on results. - *General state of things: *Edward will be sending more status/news around within the next month. In the meantime, f you have questions or would like help with a survey, email surveys@wikimedia.org
Hope that helps- Luis
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Edward and Luis,
Any chance of WMF running a similar survey on ENWP?
Pine On Oct 16, 2015 9:31 AM, "Luis Villa" lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, Michal- Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester <mlester@wikimedia.org.il
wrote:
We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP
editors
survey:
Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP
editors.
The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable international learning in the future.
The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights [1]) and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their
talk
page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 active editors and 171 contributors participated.
*Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women.
Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a conservative point of view about gender roles.
Editors in general did not find the low participation of women
negatively
affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia.
Did this vary by gender? i.e., do both men and women agree that low participation affects coverage?
Answering a question about how to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the
wiki-women
group and providing general support.
*New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new
editors
wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were
welcome.
Did this vary by age of editors? i.e., did new editors agree that new editors were welcome? :)
*Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were
satisfied
with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the
editors
were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated
that
they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while
only
29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated
that
conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way.
Interesting!
Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in
the
development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience
from
the active editors.
*Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL
provides
practical support to editors.
That's terrific.
The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’
community
and for Wikimedia Israel. Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better
support
for editors, contributors and newbies.
Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to
see a
model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist; hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the movement.)
Luis
-- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely
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