On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel <michael.peel@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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>> As a chapter we have run the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) programme since May 2012, when Andrew Gray started his residency at the British Library.
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> You've missed out a couple of years of history there - British Museum, Derby, ARKive...

As promised to Richard offlist, I've just gone through the survey and filled it in. There were a number of questions that were rather odd in their phrasing or allowed answers though. For example:

Question 2: these were all very general questions (e.g. asking about the lengths of WiRs and their benefits to the community) that could only be answered 'Not at all', 'Moderately' and 'Completely'. I went for 'moderately' for all of these as there wasn't really anything to completely disagree or agree with here - e.g. length of residencies, it's not clear whether saying 'Completely' would indicate support of 3-month or 1-year residencies.

Questions 5 and 6: these are nearly impossible to answer as a 'select 3' question. Having a ranked answer here would be much more effective.

I was also expecting to see more questions on topics like 'what are the most important aspects and outcomes of a successful WiR project?', 'how would you like to be involved in future WiR projects?' and 'how can WiR projects better engage volunteers?'.

My main suggestion would be: please share drafts of surveys like this on-wiki and ask for feedback on them before starting to ask for answers to them! WMUK's membership survey is a really good example of how such surveys can be collaboratively designed and carried out.

Thanks,
Mike
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