How about 'Trial and error'...
I think these are all sage suggestions for a future survey...
Seriously though - the phrasing came following reading a blog I read that talks about why this type of question is better for people who identify as trans ( http://tranifesto.com/2009/07/06/multiple-choice-is-rarely-trans-friendly/) - I went with a mixed approach of providing options but a more openly phrased question. I'm open to use redrafting the questions, but only if the redrafted versions were accommodating in this respect.
Always happy to take suggests in advance (I think your timing here of the day I post up the report on results from said survey particularly cruel :p) As for the editing question - I was very keen that the focus be on members and membership role, not 'members as editors' etc However, it seems like a good question to include in the standard precursor section on demographics next time.
I could go into it more, but it's Friday afternoon. Suffice to say I will ping you next time in advance so you can have input into the questions early next time :D
Have a good weekend (and see some of you at the meet up on Sunday hopefully!)
Katherine
On 9 November 2012 16:40, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
I'm very lazy and managed to not fill in the survey or give feedback.
But I just had to note that the questions "How do you identify your gender?" and "How do you identify your sexual orientation?" are most amusing to me.
The answers "it's on my birth certificate", "after a lot of soul searching and teenage anxiety" and "well, duh, have you seen my browsing history?" do not seem to be on there. Nor indeed is "with a recent gas bill and a passport". ;-)
(Seriously though: what you identify as is different from how you identify it.)
It might also be useful next time to include a question about how exactly members participate. I'd love to know whether, say, the rough breakdown of the membership who edit different projects. It might be useful so we can support projects that aren't either English Wikipedia or Commons.
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