On 04/29/2014 11:30 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mark Holmquist
<mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org <mailto:mtraceur@member.fsf.org>> wrote:
But a dark threat loomed over the land. With one product using
SurveyMonkey,
other products seemed poised to use it, too [1]. The compromise built
upon the premise that Media Viewer needed a survey in less time
than it
would take to find and set up a free [2] solution was beginning to
bleed
over into other projects where no such time crunch was present.
Our heroes now reach out to their friends in other realms [3]. Is
there
hope for freedom in the land of getting user feedback? Will MediaWiki
or the grander Wikimedia ecosystem soon have a survey tool that
all projects
can use with minimal hassle?
For other large surveys, like the annual user survey we used to run
via CentralNotice banners,[1] we've also used a third party solution,
Qualtrics. I think we still pay for it actually. SurveyMonkey is
actually a much better system, since we don't necessarily have to pay
for it, and it's easier to use for survey takers and creators.
Mark, If you
haven't looked at Qualtrics in the past, check it out. It
has many more options than SurveyMonkey that can make it worthwhile
specially if we are already paying for it.
Leila