[Advocacy Advisors] Does the Foundation intend to propose any actual actions?

[Amgine]

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On 15/02/13 08:34 PM, James Salsman wrote:
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> Would you please say why? What do you see as advantages and 
> disadvantages of learning the community's expectations about the 
> frequency of actions taken in support of editors?

Stepping in here as devil's advocate: can you suggest a reasonable
methodology for sampling and weighting the diverse communities which
make up the WMF's projects, donors, and non-active readers? My
experience with population survey research suggests this would be a
non-trivial task at the macro level. Perhaps such a survey might be
conducted in a given community, but if so that community should be the
source of the survey (or at least the impetus for its development.)

As someone occasionally involved in population research, there are a
number of questions I would have about learning the community's
expectations regarding frequency of actions, including what instrument
would be used, where/how it was normed, and the reasoning suggesting
the instrument would have sufficient validity and reliability, as well
as sensitivity and specificity, when applied to WMF communities.

The above basically means creating and running a survey is not as
simple as "Hey, I wonder what people think about X, let's ask 'em!".
It also isn't really a topic regarding advocacy.

Amgine
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