Thanks Maria - really interesting to see such a thorough evaluation - as well as good to see very positive feedback for the event.
I wondered out of curiousity if there was any discernable difference in responses between "long-term Wikimedians" and people with less previous exposure to the Wikimedia movement?
Thanks,
Chris
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Maria Cruz mcruz@wikimedia.org wrote:
*tl;dr: *You can find the results of the Wikimania 2014 Evaluation Survey on Wikimedia Commons *[1]*
Greetings,
Today we posted a slide deck summarizing data from the Wikimania evaluation survey from this year’s event in London. The survey was a collaborative effort of the Wikimania Conference and Hackathon organizers and the WMF Learning and Evaluation team. Conferences and hackathons had been identified as key programs to develop evaluation insight. Given the opportunity to collaborate on an evaluation survey, WMF team members partnered with conference and hackathon organizers to provide the technical support to complete the survey project.
This first survey offers a look into the processes and outcomes of the conference. It is intended as a means for participants to share what they got out of the conference and a platform to collect information on how we can improve future conferences and their evaluation. We have released a basic data summary and meta page with brief highlights of the survey and link to a pdf slide deck published to Commons *[1]*.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Case_studies/Wikimania_Lon...
== Methodology ==
Online survey via Qualtrics *[2]*
Data collection:
** August 10th – September 15th, 2014
** Conference participants: 1520
** Survey Respondents: n=792 (52% of conference participants)
=== The Conference Overall ===
Participants were highly satisfied with the conference overall.
91% of respondents rated the conference as "Good" (48%) or "Excellent"
(43%)
87% indicated their expectations had been "met" (48%) or "exceeded" (39%)
The most named benefits of attending Wikimania were meeting people and
finding out about projects.
Favorite talks:
Creative Ways to Alienate Women Online: A How To Guide for Wikipedians (by Steven Walling and Maryana Pinchuk) 2.
Which Law Applies to Wikipedia (by Tobias Lutzi) 3.
Raph Koster: A Theory of Fun 4.
Jack Andraka 5.
Education (by members of the Wiki Ed Foundation and Education Collaborative)
Please visit the page *[3]* for basic details or follow the links to the slide deck *[1]*. The complete survey data are available upon request and will be used by both the conference and the hackathon planning groups for their use in planning for future events and their evaluation. In addition, the Learning and Evaluation team will also work to review and incorporate these results, along with evaluation data from other conferences, in the second round of Program Evaluation reports currently in progress. The conference financial report is also underway, however, it will also be available sometime in the new year. Keep an eye out for these additional points of reporting to become available in early 2015!
On behalf of all who have collaborated in this evaluation survey, those who helped with its development, the 792 participants who completed it, and those involved in the its analysis, and now, interpretation: thank you for your time, attention, and support! We are happy to be part in this collective learning about Wikimedia conferences and hackathons. Your questions are welcome, and encouraged, on the talk page.
*María Cruz * \ Community Coordinator, PE&D Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_
*[1] Summary Slide Deck*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_Participant_Survey_-_...
*[2] Survey Items*
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1b3Qp-l8HU4WYFX2lyACL...
*[3] Overview Page*
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