2008/11/1 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
2008/11/1 Michael Bimmler mbimmler@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.
Well, you may end up with a disproportionate representation of people speaking languages near the beginning of the alphabet. The data about what speakers of each language do should be fine, but the data about how many people speak each language will be unreliable.