Good points here, many thanks!
I thought it would help to provide some explanations to the discussion here:
- Yes there were residencies that are not taken into considerations here.
We wanted to consider the residencies that had institutions in significant
cooperation with the chapter, the BL being in the grey area. It was felt
it's an important case to consider though.
- Mike is offering good points for additional aspects that could be
considered. If anyone has thoughts that go beyond the survey's questions,
please do email me!
Otherwise, it would be great to have more people contributing to the
survey.
Many thanks again,
Daria
On 9 March 2014 10:19, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:
I agree with Mike, but I would add that it's good
that the chapter is
seeking input on this sort of thing. Perhaps there could be somewhere on
the wiki where folks can add freeform comments about WiRs that don;t
necessarily fit into the answers to the survey questions?
Harry Mitchell
http://enwp.org/User:HJ
Phone: 024 7698 0977
Skype: harry_j_mitchell
On Friday, 7 March 2014, 23:06, Michael Peel <
michael.peel(a)manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
> 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.
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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