[Foundation-l] Surveys

Mon Oct 1 12:10:10 UTC 2007

> On 9/29/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net > wrote:
>> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Has any type of survey of individual Community Members ever been taken on
>> any online Foundation project?
>> 
>> If there has, what were the mechanics involved in taking it? If not, would
>> conducting such a survey be possible?
>> 
>> I am somewhat computer-challenged, so please be gentle :-).
>> 
>> Marc Riddell
> 
> on 10/1/07 12:04 AM, phoebe ayers at phoebe.wiki at gmail.com wrote:

> * See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_survey for an idea which
> has long been in the works, but never completed;
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey is a discussion of a
> possible general user survey, with recent updates
> 
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research and
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research for a fuller listing of people who
> are interested in research, including lots of people who have done or want
> to do small qualitative surveys
> 
> There are all sorts of problems with doing a proper quantitative survey,
> ranging from getting a good sample to preserving privacy; doing a
> qualitative survey is easier, but that also of course has problems. However,
> I think the data from a good survey would be very interesting to lots of
> people.
> 
> If anyone is interested in doing research, the pages above and the
> wiki-research-l list are good places to start; the list is low-traffic and
> can be found here:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
> 
> Marc, you might also be interested in the community wikiproject:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community
> if you don't already know about it.
> 
Phoebe,

Thank you for all of this! My immediate goal is to gauge the state of
Community Member satisfaction within the various Projects; with a later
focus on interpersonal dynamics and communication.

Thanks again,

Marc