[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia now open for membership

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:51 +1100, Brianna Laugher wrote:
> To Karl,
> 
> I don't know why there is a "Sex" field (and in particular since it is
> purported to be optional the default response should be "No response",

Fair enough.

> not "Male"). It is the default fields that it comes with. Maybe it's
> so one day if I ever want to do a mail merge I know whether to put Ms
> or Mr. :P

Or you could just send me an email :P

> 
> 2008/11/13 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>:
> > should there perhaps be some other demographic info requested - especially
> > education level (i.e. are you a high school student, uni, etc) and perhaps
> > age brackets. This might be good to demonstrate diversity of membership
> > which is always good when talking to gov't and perhaps the Foundation too.
> 
> Actually...
> I was just thinking recently that conducting a survey might be a
> really helpful thing to do. As well as getting demographic stats, it
> would help us find out more comprehensively which
> activities/directions members want us to focus on.

A survey would be interesting, but it shouldnt be tied to registration.
IMHO.
kk

> 
> But that would be an activity for the first elected board, so I won't
> discuss it much now (flurry of activity 'round here as it is, anyway
> :)).
> 
> cheers
> Brianna
> 
-- 
Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
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