Tech/News/Reader survey 2024
Note for the translators: This survey will be sent out in the July 1 edition of Tech/News. On June 28, I will copy across all 99% completed translations (of the content below) into LimeSurvey. Thank you for helping to translate!
This survey is to help update Tech News to better meet the needs of the various types of editors who read it. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. If you have questions about the survey you can ask at our meta-wiki talkpage. This survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available. Thank you for your feedback here.
- How often do you read Tech News?
- Every week
- 1–2 times a month
- A few times a year
- Once a year or less
- Where do you usually read Tech News?
- A local community page on your wiki
- Your user talk page
- Someone else's user talk page
- The wikitech-ambassadors@ mailing list
- Diff blog
- RSS feed
- The Tech News pages on Meta-wiki
- Somewhere else
- What are the most useful parts of Tech News?
- The "new version of MediaWiki" weekly reminder
- New tools announcements
- Planned tools feedback requests
- Major problems with a tool or gadget
- When tools and gadgets are fixed
- Major problem reports of when the wikis have not worked
- Planned times when we can’t edit
- Planned Cloud Services maintenance times
- Changes which can affect some gadgets/scripts/templates that you use or own
- Announcing the creation of new wikis
- That I know exactly what day/week changes will affect me
- Other
- What are the least useful parts of Tech News?
- (A copy of the previous question's answers)
- What would you like to see added (or more of)?
- More details in each news item
- More requests to give feedback on a planned new tool
- Updates on major bugs
- New Toolforge tools
- What things technical teams at WMF are working on
- Reminders of existing useful tools for editing, translation, or moderation
- New opportunities to contribute as a technical volunteer (hackathons, events, tools that need help, Outreachy, etc.)
- Links to other technical newsletters (for example the Wikidata newsletter or Growth newsletter)
- Technical governance updates
- Interesting or surprising Wikimedia technical trivia
- Please do not add new types of content, I like that Tech News is so short
- Other
- The level of technical jargon and technical detail in Tech News is:
- Too technical and hard for me to understand
- The right amount
- Too basic for me
- How often do you use Tech News to help other people on your local wikis? “Helping” means things like answering their questions or fixing things that affect the editing work of other people.
- Never
- 1–2 times/year
- 1–2 times/month
- 1–2 times/week or more
- How can Tech News better reach more readers?
- Anything else you want to share?
- Home wiki? (Where you do most of your volunteering)
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- Wikinews
- Wikivoyage
- Wikiquote
- Wikiversity
- Wikisource
- Wikibooks
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata
- MediaWiki
- Wikispecies
- Wikifunctions
- Wikimedia Incubator
- Meta-Wiki
- Language code (en, fr, zh, etc.)
- Other wikis where you are active:
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- Wikinews
- Wikivoyage
- Wikiquote
- Wikiversity
- Wikisource
- Wikibooks
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata
- MediaWiki
- Wikispecies
- Wikifunctions
- Wikimedia Incubator
- Meta-Wiki
- Language code (en, fr, zh, etc.)
- How long have you been volunteering on the Wikimedia projects?
- 20+
- 15–20 years
- 10–15 years
- 5–10 years
- 3–5 years
- 1–2 years
- Less than one year
- What is your main focus as an editor?
- Technical editor (JavaScript, Lua, CSS, templates, gadgets, etc.)
- Content editor (editing articles or similar text content)
- Moderator and vandalism patroller
- Translator
- Uploader or Curator of media or bulk-data