Mailing List Archive: Survey wrap-up

Survey wrap-up

Nov 3, 2008, 11:57 AM

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We're wrapping up the survey in most languages today. According to
statistics which I have not validated, we have received more than
115,000 questionnaires. I'm very pleased by this high response rate,
which bodes well for future surveys.

We expect first results to be published within the next eight weeks.
We've learned a lot through this process, and I am very grateful for
all the help and feedback, and of course for everyone who took the
time to go through the survey and forgave its imperfections. We'll try
to take all feedback into account as we begin interpreting the
results.

The following languages will continue running for a week or two
because they had a late launch or a low response rate:

Chinese (Simplified /Traditional)
Japanese
Afrikaans
Bahasa Indonesia
Greek
Esperanto

Thanks again for all help,
Erik
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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Survey wrap-up [ In reply to ]

rarohde at gmail

Jan 22, 2009, 5:46 PM

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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We're wrapping up the survey in most languages today. According to
> statistics which I have not validated, we have received more than
> 115,000 questionnaires. I'm very pleased by this high response rate,
> which bodes well for future surveys.
>
> We expect first results to be published within the next eight weeks.
> We've learned a lot through this process, and I am very grateful for
> all the help and feedback, and of course for everyone who took the
> time to go through the survey and forgave its imperfections. We'll try
> to take all feedback into account as we begin interpreting the
> results.

It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey
results released?

-Robert Rohde

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Re: Survey wrap-up [ In reply to ]

erik at wikimedia

Jan 22, 2009, 5:50 PM

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2009/1/22 Robert Rohde <rarohde@gmail.com>:
> It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey
> results released?

I've sent the survey team a first set of priority questions for
analysis. I haven't received an ETA yet, but I will report results as
soon as they become available, and I hope it's a matter of weeks, not
months, at this point. This will not yet be the full in-depth
analysis, which will probably take until March/April.

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Re: Survey wrap-up [ In reply to ]

rarohde at gmail

Jan 22, 2009, 6:17 PM

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Robert Rohde <rarohde@gmail.com>:
>> It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey
>> results released?
>
> I've sent the survey team a first set of priority questions for
> analysis. I haven't received an ETA yet, but I will report results as
> soon as they become available, and I hope it's a matter of weeks, not
> months, at this point. This will not yet be the full in-depth
> analysis, which will probably take until March/April.

This still feels like an awful long time. I understand the desire to
do synthesis and interpretation, but is there some reason why basic
summary data can't be released much faster than 3+ months? For
example, the number of people choosing each option on each question.
While there is value in picking apart subgroups and performing
regressions (especially when you have such a huge sample size!), many
of us aren't even sure what the first-order patterns will look like so
it would be nice to see some data released.

-Robert Rohde

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