* Erik Moeller <[email protected]> [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:40:07 -0700]: > Hi folks, > > we've been using LimeSurvey for the last couple of years to run > Wikimedia surveys, but as we pushed it to its limits, we've surfaced > numerous problems, including security vulnerabilities and major > concurrency issues. It's got many of the right capabilities and may > be fixable, but it would take a very significant amount of effort to > do so. > > Do folks on this list have experience with other good open source > survey tools that you've used at scale, or seen used at scale? > > Yes, there's always the option of rolling our own (perhaps building on > Jeroen's new survey extension for MediaWiki) -- but do keep in mind > that surveys can get pretty technically complex, so that may be > prohibitive for some of the surveys we're planning to run. > > We're looking at both open and proprietary solutions, but if anyone > has any tips, they'd be much appreciated. I'd like to avoid lock-in to > a proprietary solution if at all possible. :-) > If you are thinking about something like their example http://survey.limesurvey.org/index.php my Extension:QPoll (which is in Wikimedia SVN) can do most of it. Although it is still in development and not really scalable. I know that scalability is very important issue and I plan to EXPLAIN most of queries and use memcached storage, however I still don't have enough of time to develop it fast enough. Dmitriy
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