Hi, Michal- Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line: On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester <mles...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
> We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors > survey: > > > Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP editors. > The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable > international learning in the future. > > The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights > [1]) > and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed > differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their talk > page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 > active editors and 171 contributors participated. > > *Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women. > > Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the > contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited > diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a > conservative point of view about gender roles. > > Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively > affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia. Did this vary by gender? i.e., do both men and women agree that low participation affects coverage? > Answering a question about how > to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, > encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women > group and providing general support. > > *New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors > wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a > continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome. > Did this vary by age of editors? i.e., did new editors agree that new editors were welcome? :) > *Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were satisfied > with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the editors > were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a > large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts > more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated that > they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only > 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that > conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way. > Interesting! > Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the > development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience from > the active editors. > *Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia > Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than > contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides > practical support to editors. > That's terrific. > The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community > and for Wikimedia Israel. > Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support > for editors, contributors and newbies. > Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to see a model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist; hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the movement.) Luis -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
