For those who don't remember, we ran a survey last Spring to get some info on what our userbase was like. I was wondering whether we would like to do it again this year. If so, should we use the same questions? Change/add/remove some?
http://www.scp-wiki.net/2014-survey-results
We also had some free-form questions not listed on that page which were… not handled well. Not offensively, but we never got around to actually finishing collating the results and letting the community know what they were. So yeah, that would need to change.
If we do do this again, I definitely want to include more languages/countries on the questions (at least a third of the responses listed weren't in the default options. Thank goodness for the "other" field), but I'm not sure what the cutoff should be. All? Only ones that had at least X number of respondents last time?
Similarly, over half of the "how'd you find us" answers were via the "other" field, so I'd want to include some of those into the default responses. Same problem for where the cutoff would be, though.
I would also change the "unofficial involvement" responses to no long say "fanart/fic/work", but rather just "artwork, fiction, other work". As someone pointed out to me AFTER the poll closed last year, calling it "fanwork" implies a lesser status, which wasn't fair since until recently, we didn't even have a space on the wiki for that kind of non-textual work. Also, I'd change "main wiki" to "English wiki", since we're referring to the international wikis as "non-English".
Edit: Derp, it might be a good idea to include what the freeform questions were:
- If you could change ONE thing about the wiki, what would it be?
- Do you have any thoughts or concerns about the direction the wiki is taking?
- What do you think about Staff and the job they're doing, individually or as a whole?
- This is the one that a significant fraction of people got confused by, thinking we meant the author avatars and not the RL Staff.
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