[WikiEN-l] Worst. Survey. Ever.

[Erik Moeller]

2008/11/1 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
> Well, one the one hand I am quite happy to have a list where it
> doesn't say "United States", "United Kingdom" at the top, then two
> dashes, and then all the "less important countries".
>
> What I agree, though, is that this could have been made more
> language-specific, if there had been more preparation time. E.g., if
> someone chooses the German version of the survey, Germany, Austria and
> Switzerland could have been at the top etc.

Yep, I agree - this was one of our requests, but it was not to be.
These are usability quirks that make it more cumbersome than necessary
to complete the survey, but other than potentially more people not
answering these questions, should not influence the results.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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