I agree with Mike, but I would add that it's good that the chapter is seeking
input on this sort of thing. Perhaps there could be somewhere on the wiki where
folks can add freeform comments about WiRs that don;t necessarily fit into the
answers to the survey questions?
Harry Mitchell
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On Friday, 7 March 2014, 23:06, Michael Peel <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:37, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, Richard Nevell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> As a chapter we have run the Wikimedian in Residence (WIR) programme since
>> May 2012, when Andrew Gray started his residency at the British Library.
>
> You've missed out a couple of years of history there - British Museum, Derby,
> ARKive...
As promised to Richard offlist, I've just gone through the survey and filled it
in. There were a number of questions that were rather odd in their phrasing or
allowed answers though. For example:
Question 2: these were all very general questions (e.g. asking about the
lengths of WiRs and their benefits to the community) that could only be
answered 'Not at all', 'Moderately' and 'Completely'. I went for 'moderately'
for all of these as there wasn't really anything to completely disagree or
agree with here - e.g. length of residencies, it's not clear whether saying
'Completely' would indicate support of 3-month or 1-year residencies.
Questions 5 and 6: these are nearly impossible to answer as a 'select 3'
question. Having a ranked answer here would be much more effective.
I was also expecting to see more questions on topics like 'what are the most
important aspects and outcomes of a successful WiR project?', 'how would you
like to be involved in future WiR projects?' and 'how can WiR projects better
engage volunteers?'.
My main suggestion would be: please share drafts of surveys like this on-wiki
and ask for feedback on them before starting to ask for answers to them! WMUK's
membership survey is a really good example of how such surveys can be
collaboratively designed and carried out.
Thanks,
Mike
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