Collaboration/Flow satisfaction survey/translations/en

Welcome to the Flow satisfaction survey!

Flow is a structured discussion tool supported by the Collaboration team. More and more communities are using Flow and many suggestions have been made for improving it. With this survey, we want to know your opinion of the tool as a Flow user and to gather suggestions for future improvements.

At the moment, there are two different kind of talk pages on wikis: the usual ones using the wikitext and the ones using Flow, with visual editing or wikitext. Examples below are in the French language; the most important thing is to identify the different structures:

Conversation using wikitext (reading mode):
Conversation using wikitext (edit mode):
Conversation using Flow:

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When you are ready, please click on the >> button below!

In what year did you start to contribute to any Wikimedia Project (e.g. Wikipedia, Commons, etc.)?

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016

On average, how often are you involved in discussions on a Wikimedia project?

Never or only a few times since I’ve started to contribute
About once per month
About once per week
About once per day

Have you ever used the usual talk pages for articles, which require use of Wikitext?

Yes, like that:
No

On which Wikimedia project do you mainly use Flow?

Overall, which tool between Flow and Wikitext do you prefer to use for talk-page discussions on Wikimedia projects?

Strongly prefer Wikitext
Somewhat prefer Wikitext
Neither Wikitext nor Flow
Somewhat prefer Flow
Strongly prefer Flow

For each of the following activities, which tool do you prefer to use between Wikitext and Flow?

Reading talk page discussions
Understanding talk page discussions
Writing and editing in talk page discussions
Engaging with other users on talk pages
Summarizing discussions on talk pages

Strongly prefer Wikitext
Somewhat prefer Wikitext
Somewhat prefer Flow
Strongly prefer Flow
Not applicable

Reading talk page discussions
Understanding talk page discussions
Writing and editing in talk page discussions
Engaging with other users on talk pages
Summarizing discussions on talk pages

Wikitext
Flow

To what extent are the following features of Flow useful?

Resolving conversations
Editing a message in talk page discussions
Following the layout of Flow discussions
Adding a new topic or comment in talk page discussions
Summarizing discussions
Watching and receiving notifications about individual topics, rather than entire talk pages

Not at all useful
Little useful
Somewhat useful
Completely useful
Not applicable

In regards to engaging other users, to what extent are you satisfied with the following features of Flow?

Mentioning other users
Replying to other users
Thanking users
Access to user’s talk page or contributions

Very satisfied
Somewhat satisfied
Neither satisfied or unsatisfied
Somewhat unsatisfied
Very unsatisfied
Not applicable

What aspects of Flow discussions, if any, do you find useful? To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

Writing and editing with Flow is easy and intuitive
The layout of Flow discussions is easy to read and understand.
Watching topics on Flow discussions is easy
Following individual topics on Flow through notifications is more useful than following an entire page
Flow makes discussions easier to summarize
Flow makes it easier to mention other participants in the discussion
Flow makes it easier to mark the conversation as resolved.
With Flow, the interactions with other users are easier than with wikitext (easier to mention, thank, respond, watch).

Answer1Strongly agree

Answer2Somewhat agree

Answer3Neither agree nor disagree

Answer4Somewhat disagree

Answer5Strongly disagree

Please share another aspect you find useful, if any

If there are aspects of Flow you don't find useful, what are they? What improvements would you like to see?

Flow users have suggested the following actions are missing in Flow. Please rank these action by moving items, from 1 (absolute need) to 5 (don’t need).

It's hard to find specific topics. Searching would help.
It's hard to focus on a specific group of topics. Being able to filter or categorize topics would make it easy to focus on those needing your attention.
It's hard to manage and organize the conversation. Being able to move topics to a different page would help keeping the boards more clear.
It's hard to keep track different conversations that all take place on different pages. Being able to view all my Flow activity at once on a single page, with easy to read updates, would help
It's hard to track the evolution of a conversation. Better support for checking the history of a conversation, its changes, and clearing vandalism would be helpful.