Update: The survey is still open! In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to hold the ED search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you haven’t already, please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.
Thank you for your participation! [1] - ED Search Survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX Alice. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalc...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most active > editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of answering the > questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who translate > articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 2 from > Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities, multiply by the > number of very active editors on those wikis and divide by the number of > asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough estimate. > > Best regards, > User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev > Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring international organiser > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalc...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that > translations > >> take time. > >> > >> Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most important > >> principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g. > participation > >> of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of a 2 > months > >> longer search on the WMF be? > >> > > > > The assumption is that any organization under an interim leader is > > basically frozen. An interim leader is unlikely to make any change. Also, > > one of the gripes of the past was a long (way over a year) process of ED > > searching. The ED search team wants to avoid repeating this. > > > > > > > > > >> > >> I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another notable > >> example is the number of representatives at the WMCON with chapters > having > >> up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are 59 user > >> groups and (as well as I could count) only 10 of them will be able to > >> participate at the survey in their own language. Why was the opinion of > 49 > >> user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months? > >> > > > > I think the main assumption may have been that there will be decreasing > > differences - that is, the differences between the views expressed in the > > 10 major languages will not be big in general. Of course, we will see > > whether there are significant differences within these 10. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> > > wrote: > > > >> Whereas I fully understand and partially share the sentiment, may I > >> please repeat the question I asked on this list in relation to a similar > >> topic some time ago. Could we estimate a number of active community > members > >> (whom we would reasonably expect to participate in the survey) who do > not > >> speak any of the languages to which the survey was translated, to the > point > >> that their ability to fill in the survey would depend on the others? If > >> this is a considerable number, or if it is less significant but > >> considerably compromises on the representation, which languages do these > >> community members speak? > >> > >> > > Yaroslav's question is a good one - I don't know from the top of my head > > how to estimate this easily. However, let me repeat: we are asking > general > > questions, and the results are not binding. It is not an issue of > > representation. I doubt if there will be huge cultural differences to the > > extent that the questionnaire would bring different results if 10 more > > languages were added, mainly because I think that wiki-world is quite > > hermetic and has a culture of its own. > > > > > > cheers, > > > > dj > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Alice Wiegand Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
