[Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

Pronoein pronoein at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 06:32:21 UTC 2011


Hello Keegan. I think this list is not about siding and throwing
moqueries at each other. We should respect what each one believes.

Le 11/03/2011 03:29, Keegan Peterzell a écrit :
> 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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