Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion

2017-03-02 Thread James Heilman
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion

2017-02-26 Thread Peter Southwood
. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cardy Sent: Sunday, 26 February 2017 2:44 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion I'm ke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion

2017-02-26 Thread Jonathan Cardy
I'm keen on surveys, used to work in that line a few years ago, and the first we did was I think at least in part a response to a proposal I made on the 2009 Strategy wiki. In hindsight the big mistakes of that survey were that we didn't repeat it annually, and the lack of community input in set

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion

2017-02-25 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
An interesting idea, and if it reduces the survey load on the community that would be good. But one should never survey for the sake of it. Any proposed survey question should be able to meet the test "What will you do with the answer to this question?" In my experience, the response to that is