[Events] Gearing up for WMF Hackathon exit survey

[Nick Gwynne]

Typically, you want to ask demographic questions at the end of the survey,
to avoid biasing things. You also might want age, especially if you want to
make some of the specific claims about who you were getting to contribute
to Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects for the first time (I know the age
range was a surprise to me).

I edited the document according little bit, but it mostly looks good. I'd
say one of the other major things you might consider is a battery of more
specific and detailed questions. If you send it out as is, do make sure you
indicate that it shouldn't take very long (give a rough estimate of time),
as this will increase your response rate.

I'm happy to generate some more specific questions, but I'm not sure how
fruitful that would be. Let me know.

Nick Gwynne
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Hi OH-Events,
>
> (First, an introduction: Nicholas Z. Gwynne is someone I met at the
> Wikimania Hackathon who is a social science statistician at Berkeley, if I
> recall the facts correctly. I invited him to this list, and he volunteered
> to help with this exit survey. Other feedback welcome, too!)
>
> I'm back in SF from travel, and wanted to get thoughts on an exit survey
> for Hackathon attendees. What I want to do is summarize the goals of the
> exit survey for you, then give you a link to a draft, as well as to a
> previous survey so you have a sense of how they look.
>
> Dear readers, but especially Nicholas, if you have time to give some
> feedback, that'd be great. (Nicholas, if you want to meet up in person, I
> could head down to Berkeley if that helps.)
>
> Goals
> -----
>
> It's been about a fortnight since the Wikimania hackathon. In running an
> exit survey, I have the following goals:
>
> * Find out what we could improve about the event
>
> * Find out what people liked about the event
>
> * Find out what made people interested in signing up
>
> * Find out what people accomplished, largely for a publicity goal of being
> able to declare that the event was a success -- especially if those things
> were accomplished because of our emphasis on newcomer friendliness
>
> * Get some nice quotes from people that can be used in publicity to
> summarize that the event was good
>
> * For people that want to stay in touch and receive mentorship in the
> future, get contact information
>
> * Find out if the event is pushing people forward in terms of a trajectory
> into becoming contributors
>
> * Find out if people think the event was good enough to recommend to a
> friend (as a way to provide internal feedback that our events are generally
> good)
>
> * Obtain qualitative data to confirm, or contradict, my notion that
> newcomer-friendly language was important to getting attendees
>
> Draft text
> ----------
>
> Given that, here is a draft of the text of the survey:
> https://etherpad.mozilla.org/**wmf-hackathon-survey<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/wmf-hackathon-survey>
>
> It's in a live-editable system so you can just make edits there if you
> want.
>
> Once we have the text solid, I plan to send it out as a Google Docs
> spreadsheet. It will look something like this past one:
> https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=**
> dGNtSUk1STVlYzlwekZRX0pQS0F2MV**E6MQ#gid=0<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNtSUk1STVlYzlwekZRX0pQS0F2MVE6MQ#gid=0>
>
> I plan to put the text up-top (pre-questions) in a form email to the
> people who "signed in" with Mike, auto-filling their name, and then linking
> to the survey with a clickable link that has the email address filled in.
>
> We received some expression of concern last time that we used a URL
> shortener without indicating where the link goes -- this time, I'll
> indicate that the link goes to a Google Docs form so people know if they're
> comfortable clicking on it.
>
> Thoughts?
> ---------
>
> If you have time, I'd love feedback on this. I'm hoping to send it out in
> the next day or two, but if you want to respond but need more time, just
> say so!
>
> -- Asheesh.
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