Better late than never...? :)
Better late than never...? :)
Everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know that the ex-contributor survey is live. Andrew started the first batch of 10,000 users this morning, and this batch will continue for the next few hours.
As an FYI, Philippe and Andrew identified a bug where 528 users received an email with an incorrect username. The bug has been fixed, so going forward, the usernames should all be correct. If we continue to have this issue, we will switch the salutation to something generic such as "Dear Wikipedia Contributor."
Regarding the survey:
Here is the link to the actual survey, but please do not fill it out as the survey is live: <contact Philippe if you need it>
The wiki page which contains the questions/answers may also be found here: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Former_contributors_survey.
I've pasted the text of the email below.
We're sending out the survey in batches of 10,000 so we can throttle the number sent out depending on the response rate. We're targeting users that have made between 10-99 lifetime edits, none of which have been made in the past three months. We're also making sure the most recent edit for these users was in 2009.
Huge thanks to Andrew for all his work in getting the survey out. Thanks also to everyone on this thread for refining the survey. I'm really looking forward to seeing the results -- so far we've received 41 total responses (31 complete and 10 incomplete), which is very encouraging start :)
Howie
Ex-contributor survey email text
Subject: Survey from Wikipedia
Email Text:
Hello <username>!
We are studying the habits of Wikipedia contributors, seeking to identify and address reasons why people stop contributing. We noticed that you haven't made any edits in a while, and we're wondering where you've been.
We would appreciate 5 minutes of your time to complete an online survey. We're constantly looking for ways to improve our community and your responses will help us understand what Wikipedia is doing well and what we can improve on.
Please click on the link below to be directed to the survey.
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia and for your help in improving our community.
The Wikimedia Community Health Task Force
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health
The Wikimedia Community Health Task Force represents a group volunteers examining ways to improve the health of the communities for the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia.
As always, we are very careful to protect your privacy. Responses will be reviewed anonymously and data will be presented in aggregate form only.