When you make a dumb survey, answers will be dumb, as well as conclusions.
I am really frustrated with that survey... I wanted to help with my
responses, but it seems that I am inside of unknown percentage of
Wikimedia Commons users and contributors which doesn't fit into the
survey.
So, let's
Hi Milos,
Milos Rancic wrote:
* And the winner: What is my reason to participate? And there is no
*my* reason, even Commons is the free content project? No reason to
answer.
The survey was designed specifically to avoid general statements. As you
very well state yourself, general
2009/10/26 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org:
One thing I realized, though, was that two questions had an ambiguous
wording: people wonder why they have to give reasons for not using
Commons, or not participating, despite the fact that they said they do.
These questions should read «
Hi,
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/10/26 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org:
One thing I realized, though, was that two questions had an ambiguous
wording: people wonder why they have to give reasons for not using
Commons, or not participating, despite the fact that they said they do.
These
2009/10/26 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org:
Yes, we tested the survey, but with a smaller number of people, because
of the time constraints (the multimedia usability project really started
only 2 weeks ago, and the fundraising campaign is going to be the major
focus of sitenotices
Milos Rancic wrote:
When you make a dumb survey, answers will be dumb, as well as conclusions.
I am really frustrated with that survey... I wanted to help with my
responses, but it seems that I am inside of unknown percentage of
Wikimedia Commons users and contributors which doesn't fit into
Hoi,
Ehm, the statistics that we have are compiled by Erik Zachte.. qualifying
our staff and implicitly Erik as lacking the experience is a bit off.
It is not only the Commons project but also the Usability Initiative and the
Strategy project that will rely largely on these numbers..
Having
2009/10/26 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Hoi,
Ehm, the statistics that we have are compiled by Erik Zachte.. qualifying
our staff and implicitly Erik as lacking the experience is a bit off.
It is not only the Commons project but also the Usability Initiative and the
Strategy
Hoi,
Assume - ass u me ... When you look at the presentation of the statistics,
when you consider the score card that were recently announced. I am happy
to agree with you that it does not say on Erik's user page on en.wp that he
had any formal statistics training.. Erik for your information is
2009/10/26 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Hoi,
Assume - ass u me ... When you look at the presentation of the statistics,
when you consider the score card that were recently announced. I am happy
to agree with you that it does not say on Erik's user page on en.wp that he
had any
As I believe I have noted several times on this list and elsewhere in
the Wikimediasphere, I'm a professional marketing research
practitioner, with over 17 years of experience, currently at a Fortune
100 company, who has designed and executed upwards of 1,500 different
survey questionnaires. I
I regard Erik highly for his skills in analyzing data which is already
present. I am completely confident he can do some thought provoking
analysis.
Unfortunately, the skills required for putting a good questionare together
are different from those on analyzing the data.
The remarks I have seen
As an example, let's have a look at the first two questions:
1) Do you use Wikimedia Commons at all?
Choose one of the following answers
* Yes, regularly
* Yes, sometimes
* No
Criticism: not exact. What is regularly? Once a day? Once a week? Once a
month? 5% of all wiki edits? 25% of
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I don't regularly use Commons, but when I went to fill in the answer at
Other for why I don't use it the survey crashed.
I got an error message after submitting the page with text in the
'other' field too. I thought it
Forwarded to the list per request.
The message pertains to her initial inquiry of November 2008:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047414.html
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