[Advocacy Advisors] [Wiki-research-l] General user survey: future plans?

[James Salsman]

>> Is anyone working on a general user survey?

Sorry I left the 'l' off the end of this link:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000394.html

Here are some related links:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000388.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000390.html

> Our advocacy orientation isn't well aligned with the issues that most
> affect Wikimedians at present, because previous surveys had ... flaws.

Here are 16 proposed additions followed by the earlier list of 24 from
the EU policy survey:

1. Labor rights, e.g., linking to fixmyjob.com

2. Support the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and its protocols without reservation

3. Increase infrastructure spending

4. Increase education spending

5. Public school class size reduction

6. College subsidy with income-based repayment terms

7. More steeply progressive taxation

8. Negative interest on excess reserves

9. Telecommuting

10. Workweek length reduction

11. Single-payer health care

12. Renewable power purchase

13. Increased data center hardware power efficiency

14. Increased security against eavesdropping

15. Metropolitan broadband

16. Oppose monopolization of software, communications, publishing, and
finance industries

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A. Open Access (Scientific Research)

B. Database Rights

C. Freedom of Information

D. Orphan Works

E. Broadband Internet Access

F. Data Protection

G. Human Rights

H. Freedom of Panorama

I. Open (Government) Data

J. Censorship

K. Copyright on Government Works

L. Internet Neutrality

M. Three-strikes laws

N. Cultural Heritage

O. Data Retention

P. Provider/Hoster Liability

Q. Copyright Enforcement

R. Geodata

S. Open Educational Resources

T. Software Patents

U. Research Funding

V. Surveillance

W. Public Broadcasting

X. Frequency Allocation

Best regards,
James Salsman