[Foundation-l] We need more information (was: Blog from Sue about ...)

[Michel Vuijlsteke]

On 30 September 2011 17:17, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com> wrote:

> As per Sue's report to the Board, which Erik referred to [1]:
> "The referendum did not directly ask whether respondents supported the idea
> of the filter. It did ask this question:
>
> *On a scale of 0 to 10, if 0 is strongly opposed, 5 is neutral and 10 is
> strongly in favor, please give your view of the following: It is important
> for the Wikimedia projects to offer this feature to readers.*
>
> 24,023 people responded to that question, with 23,754 selecting a number on
> the scale. The result was mildly in favour of the filter, with an average
> response of 5.7 and a median of 6."
>
>
This keeps coming up. Even if the median/average were useful (which they
arguably aren't, with the high number of 0s), the question was not "do you
support the idea of this filter".

The question was "do you think it is important Wikimedia projects should
offer this feature".

Michel