User:JKoerner (WMF)/sandbox/SS2024
Community Safety Survey Wave 4 Results
[edit]In October of 2024, we deployed the 4th Community Safety survey on 6 language Wikipedias: English, Farsi, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The question asked of users was:
“In the last 30 days, have you felt unsafe or uncomfortable contributing to Wikipedia (xx.wikipedia.org)?”
with xx denoting the Wikipedia language (for example, for French it was “fr.wikipedia.org”). This year, we added a second question to the survey. For those who answered “Yes” to having felt unsafe or uncomfortable, they were asked to select or write in some reasons they have felt unsafe.
The options to respond to the initial question were: “Yes,” “No,” and “I'm not sure.”
A few notes about reading this data
[edit]- Percents reported unweighted reflect the actual responses to the survey.
- Percents reported weighted reflect the responses to the survey with weights applied to shape the data to the distribution of editors on the wiki by “edit bucket” (a user having made 5 to 99 edits, 100 to 999 edits, or 1000 or more edits).
- We report weighted data when we see a statistical difference in how different edit bucket users respond to the question. This helps to make the data more reflective of the actual population of the wiki.
- If you want to apply this data to the broader population of the wiki, make sure to look for the margin of error! For example, note the difference in meaning between:
- “77% of survey respondents said that they did not feel unsafe or uncomfortable contributing to English Wikipedia in the month before the survey”
- “We estimate that 76% to 79% of English Wikipedians felt safe contributing to English Wikipedia in the month before the survey”
- The first example tells us about the results of the actual survey, while the second example approximates how the overall population feels (those who were surveyed, and those who were not) based on the survey results, a 95% confidence interval, and margin of error.
With that, here are the results of our Wave 4 analyses for each wiki:
English Wikipedia
[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/enwiki
Spanish Wikipedia
[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/eswiki
Persian Wikipedia
[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/fawiki
French Wikipedia
[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/frwiki
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[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/jpwiki
Portuguese Wikipedia
[edit]Community Safety/Reports/Wave 4/ptwiki
Additional Notes
[edit]| Wiki | Response Rate[1] | Number of Responses | % of Users Displayed the Question |
|---|---|---|---|
| English Wikipedia | ~22% | 2,436 | 3% |
| Spanish Wikipedia | ~17% | 618 | 10% |
| Persian Wikipedia | NA | NA | NA |
| French Wikipedia | ~15% | 750 | 10% |
| Japanese Wikipedia | ~22% | 2,436 | 3% |
| Portuguese Wikipedia | ~18% | 636 | 20% |
Past Results
[edit]Please note, if you are comparing current results to past results, to pay attention to the margins of error. Overlapping margins of error between waves mean that a change seen may not be statistically significant.
- ↑ We estimate response rates by calculating the number of unique responses after data cleaning divided by the number of unique survey session tokens from impressions. This gives a slightly smaller response rate than the actual, as users who clear their browser cookies or switch devices may have the survey shown to them again and Wikimedia Foundation staff also force the survey to be shown in order to test for quality assurance.