I agree with Mike, but I would add that it's good that the chapter is seeking input on this sort of thing. Perhaps there could be somewhere on the wiki where folks can add freeform comments about WiRs that don;t necessarily fit into the answers to the survey questions?  

 

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On Friday, 7 March 2014, 23:06, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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>> As a chapter we have run the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) programme since May 2012, when Andrew Gray started his residency at the British Library.
>
> You've missed out a couple of years of history there - British Museum, Derby, ARKive...

As promised to Richard offlist, I've just gone through the survey and filled it in. There were a number of questions that were rather odd in their phrasing or allowed answers though. For example:

Question 2: these were all very general questions (e.g. asking about the lengths of WiRs and their benefits to the community) that could only be answered 'Not at all', 'Moderately' and 'Completely'. I went for 'moderately' for all of these as there wasn't really anything to completely disagree or agree with here - e.g. length of residencies, it's not clear whether saying 'Completely' would indicate support of 3-month or 1-year residencies.

Questions 5 and 6: these are nearly impossible to answer as a 'select 3' question. Having a ranked answer here would be much more effective.

I was also expecting to see more questions on topics like 'what are the most important aspects and outcomes of a successful WiR project?', 'how would you like to be involved in future WiR projects?' and 'how can WiR projects better engage volunteers?'.

My main suggestion would be: please share drafts of surveys like this on-wiki and ask for feedback on them before starting to ask for answers to them! WMUK's membership survey is a really good example of how such surveys can be collaboratively designed and carried out.

Thanks,
Mike
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