[Foundation-l] Dumb survey about Commons

Mon Oct 26 19:52:28 UTC 2009

2009/10/26 Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org>:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Criticism: not exact. What is "regularly"? Once a day? Once a week? Once a
>> month? 5% of all wiki edits? 25% of all wikiedits?
>
> Sometimes it's good to keep it vague -- to get people's opinions on
> their own activity.  Isn't the survey trying to gauge
> Commons participation and any barriers to it?  If people feel they
> contribute very frequently to Commons, their participation isn't
> really hindered that much.

I disagree. If you want opinions you have to ask for opinions. Asking
vague questions just annoys people because they don't know what they
are supposed to answer.