David Gerard wrote: <snip>
The General User Survey project (survey of Wikipedia users, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey) is in dire need of somebody who would help us with the coding part - the questions for the survey have been mostly ready for months, but we cannot implement the survey with our (lack of) technical skills.
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Hello,
Basicly this project seems to be yet another survey. There are probably ton of softwares to create surveys, analyze the data for you and output cool looking histograms.
Since I am lazy, I relied on google with the keywords "php survey". The really first link is a link too google answer giving ton of links:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=311751
The first link gives out "PHP Questionnaire" (french word for "survey"): http://www.chumpsoft.com/products/phpq/ . The screen shots look cool, but the software comes at a price 200US$ (that's less than the price of half a day of work).
Another one is NaboPoll : http://www.nabocorp.com/nabopoll/shots.php . Looks simple enough, can probably be easily skinned to looks like wikipedia website.
Hmm lets google for "Mediawiki poll" and we have an extension to add polls in MediaWiki :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poll from there we get straight to some source code: http://nl.free2xs.net/Projects/MediaWiki/extensions/Poll http://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Source_code
So now devs can have a look at both extensions, check the licence, contact the authors and add the extension in SVN. Then we all work on the issue, produce a clean and secure extension and deploy it on wikimedia.org or somewhere else.
I am sure we can do it by March 2007.
cheers,