[Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

[Keegan Peterzell]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mani Pande <mpande at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
>
> > MzMcBride wrote:
>
> > "After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the
> > survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence
> > that anything of value will come from this (beyond lessons of what not to
> do
> > next time)."
> >
> Based upon my experience having conducted surveys and quantitative
> research for over 12 years, this is a very incorrect assessment of the
> survey. The survey answers questions that are important to the
> foundation, and will help us understand the editor community so we can
> provide them an engaging  editing environment, ensure we can increase
> their needs to increase retention and increase the diversity among
> editors. As for Lime Survey, it is a great open source tool that is able
> to meet all our needs.  Again based upon my experience, a 20 minute
> survey is standard for most surveys. A learning from our last survey was
> that our community is very engaged and I believe the length of the
> survey is the least of our problems.
>

Boom.


>
> > The pool of people who will click the banner is already fairly small. The
> > people who will want to start a 20-minute survey is even smaller.
> >
>
> When we did UNU-Merit which was a similar length, we got over 100,000
> complete responses so your assessment that the pool is fairly small is
> unsubstantiated.
>

Roasted.


>
> If you have more feedback, please post it on the wiki.
>

Nice.


> Mani
>
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I like your style already, Mani.

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~Keegan

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