Samuel Klein, 30/04/2014 05:35:
Asking 1/1000 users of tool X a single open-ended
question ("please
give us feedback on X" or "how is X working for you"?) can be a handy
way to encourage brief input from a cross-section of users,
We do have such a feature in MediaWiki, though: mediawiki.feedback.js.
It's just a JavaScrip popup which saves the comment to a page on the wiki.
many of
which would not otherwise comment at all. And for some tools (such as
UploadWizard) there is no obvious place to leave comments, and opening
Bugzilla is a new-tab + multi-step process away.
UploadWizard (like VisualEditor) uses what above. Maybe it needs an
option to be offered more prominently under some conditions?
This is probably the most viable option here, almost no technical effort
and more value in output.
Tilman Bayer, 29/04/2014 21:58:
might be worth revisiting
LimeSurvey, which appears to have undergone a complete rewrite since
that installation was removed from WMF servers for security concerns
around 2011.
+1. It will need to be done anyway, at some point, e.g. if a general
editor survey is tried again.
multilingual
support than other solutions [...]
lack of integrated language support in
Surveymonkey, or just because the focus was on per-project results
anyway?
Agreed on all the rest but this point specifically. It seems
surveymonkey is really out of question. However, how many languages does
Qualtrics support?
LimeSurvey says 50; it is translated on a public instance of GlotPress.
GlotPress is from Automattic and is used to make some Wordpress locale,
hence some
translatewiki.net have experience with it. However I wasn't
able to gather much information about it, I only know that it's yet
another web tool for .po format; maybe Stu can put us in contact with
someone with more insight (especially on how much it's used and how
prioritary for Automattic)?
Nemo