[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Thomas Dalton]

I said from the beginning that this poll was too badly designed for anyone
to be able to draw useful conclusions from whatever the results are. I think
that has been proven correct.

A very large proportion of voters said they don't consider the feature
important. If they simply mean "not important" then the result could be
considered a mandate to proceed. If they actually mean they are opposed to
the feature, which seems likely given the number of negative comments, then
there is not even a clear majority in favour.

While I personally am in favour of this feature, I urge the Foundation not
to proceed with it without further consultation. To ask the community for
their views and then not actually take those views into account (which you
can't do since you can't tell what they are) would be a an insult to the
community and would significantly harm relations between the Foundation and
those it exists to serve.

The Foundation needs to be mature enough to admit that they've screwed up
this survey, apologise and try again. Next time, start by figuring out what
you want to achieve by asking the questions and then choose the questions
accordingly.
On Sep 4, 2011 11:39 AM, "Béria Lima" <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Blame the wording of the survey for not be clear enough?
> _____
> *Béria Lima*
>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre
> acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
> fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
>
>
> On 4 September 2011 11:35, Mikael <mikael79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On the other hand: "I think it is important not to..." isn't necessarily
>> interpreted the same as "I think it is not important to...".
>> Which of those answers was meant by the respondents that chose "0"?
>>
>> \Mike
>>
>> On 04/09 2011 11:17, David Gerard wrote:
>> > On 4 September 2011 05:33, Philippe Beaudette<pbeaudette at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The committee running the vote on the features for the Personal Image
>> Filter
>> >> have released their interim report and vote count. You may see the
>> results
>> >> at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Results/en.
>> >
>> >
>> > The bimodal distribution in the first graph suggests this feature will
>> > continue to be controversial (to say the least), with fans saying "we
>> > had the majority" and foes saying "there is clearly not a consensus".
>> >
>> > So. What happens now?
>> >
>> >
>> > - d.
>> >
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