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?
Harry Mitchell
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On Friday, 7 March 2014, 23:06, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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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