Wikimedia Ukraine/Community Survey 2018
Community Survey Edition 2018
Wikimedia Ukraine has conducted its community survey for the first time during February 2018. Our aim was to get some demographic information and and better understand the community needs and also accumulate feedback concerning the chapter`s efforts.
The survey has been hosted on Qualtrics.com with a login received from the Wikimedia Foundation. It was available online in Ukrainian from February 5. The survey link was communicated on the central notice banner, and it was also sent via email to our members.
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Are you editing wikirojects? Please, take this survey! It will take 5 minutes
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Demographics
To which gender do you most identify? (Q1)
- 4331 survey participants provided answer
- 39.18% are women
- 53.17% are men
- 1.50% are of another gender identification
- 6.14% preferred not to answer
How old are the respondents? (Q2)
- 4326 survey participants provided their age
- 37.61% are under 18
- 19.51% are 18—25 y.o.
- 11.93% are 26—34 y.o.
- 17.66% are 35—54 y.o.
- 7.72% are 55 and more y.o.
- 5.57% preferred not to answer
What type of education do respondents have? (Q3)
- 4281 survey participants provided answer
- 32.68% higher
- 24.27% secondary
- 15.28% higher (not finished)
- 27.77% other
What is employment status? (Q4)
- 4295 survey participants provided answer
- 32.90% are school students
- 16.09% are university students
- 5.84% have seasonal / temporary employment or freelance
- 27.64% have permanent employment
- 5.75% are retired
- 5.15% are unemployed
- 6.64% have some other status
What language do respondents speak? (Q5)
- 4309 survey participants provided answer
- 75.98% speak Ukrainian
- 20.75% speak Russian
- 3.27% speak other language
Questions related to Wikimedia projects
For how many years have you been contributing to Wikiprojects? (Q6)
- 2933 survey participants provided answer
- 71.02% have been contributing for 1 year or less
- 16.84% have been contributing for for 2—5 years
- 12.14% have been contributing for more than 5 years
How much time respondents devote to Wikiprojects? (average number of hours per week) (Q7)
- 3009 survey participants provided answer
- 53.94% spend 0-2 hours
- 12.00% spend 3-4 hours
- 3.89% spend 5-6 hours
- 2.23% spend 7-8 hours
- 1.26% spend 9-12 hours
- 10.93% spend 3-15 hours
- 3.39% spend 16 and more
- 22.37% do not know how much time they spend on contributing
What are your main motivators for editing? (max 2 answers) (Q8)
- 4386 survey participants provided answer
- 28.39% are motivated by desire to share knowledge and information
- 9.05% edit because it is fun / it is their`s hobby
- 15.34% edit because it is one of the way for self-education
- 14.91% are pushed bu the commitment to increase free knowledge for all
- 15.60% are motivated by the desire to contribute as a thank you for the information obtained
- 6.52% are thrilled with togetherness process
- 10.19% are motivated by some other motives. Among those: "desire to share", "just doing", "I`m paid for this", "to make women in science and culture more visible", "to celebrate my locality and people from here", "I`m wikiholik"
What Wikiprojects do you edit? (Q9)
- 4461 survey participants provided answer
- 53.69% Wikipedia
- 5.00% Commons
- 4.95% Wikidata
- 3.56% Wikivoyage
- 6.28% Wiktionary
- 5.34% Wikisource
- 2.31% Mediawiki
- 5.02% Wikiquote
- 3.77% Wikibooks
- 2.11% Wikispecies
- 3.68% Wikinews
- 2.08% Wikiversity
Questions on Wikimedia projects climate
Are respondents satisfied with the overall working atmosphere in Ukrainian Wikipedia? (Q10)
[ question was only for those who answered that they edit Wikipedia and 1666 respondents answered ]
- 1666 survey participants provided answer
- 11.28% are very dissatisfied
- 5.76% are dissatisfied
- 15.07% are no satisfied, nor dissatisfied
- 52.34% are satisfied
- 15.55% are very satisfied
Name three words that characterize atmosphere in Ukrainian Wikipedia (Q27)
[ question was only for those who answered that they edit Wikipedia ] tba
Have respondents been involved in a conflict situation over the last 12 months on Wikimedia projects (online or offline)? (Q11)
- 1632 survey participants provided answer
- 11.95% consider they have been involved
- 70.28% have not been involved
- 17.77% do not remember
Have respondents behaved with another user in a way that they later considered totally unacceptable / regretted? (Q12)
- 1625 survey participants provided answer
- 7.51% regretted on their behaviour
- 76.43% have not behaved in such a way
- 16.06% respondents do not remember
To which extent respondents agree or disagree with the statements? (Q13)
- Conflicts happen regularly between Ukrainian Wikipedia users
- 24.33% (210) totally agree
- 39.83% (286) partly agree
- 56.21% (267) partly disagree
- 78.61% (441) totally disagree
- 46.20% (231) hard to answer
- Conflicts between users are solved in good manner in Ukrainian Wikipedia
- 75.67% (653) totally agree
- 60.17% (432) partly agree
- 43.79% (208) partly diagree
- 21.39% (120) totally disagree
- 53.80% (269) hard to answer
What are the main reasons of conflicts? (Q28)
- 3460 survey participants provided answer
- 5.61% consider lack of dialogue to be the main reason
- 27.46% named opposite opinions
- 6.56% named articles content
- 16.79% named the lack of knowledge/competence
- 4.65% named the lack of documented rules
- 9.65% negative attitude of users
- 13.58% deliberate provocateurs
- 12.40% stubbornness of users
- 3.29% other reasons
Analysis of other reasons:
- community atmosphere (12)
- the way processes are organised/administered (8)
- editors behavior (6)
- opinions that do not indicate reasons (5)
- don`t know (12)
- no conflicts observed (7)
What are the appropriate ways to resolve conflicts in Ukrainian Wikipedia? (Q29)
- 2300 survey participants provided answer
- 16.17% are for changes in software that will make process of communication easier
- 22.35% opposite opinions
- 12.74% articles content itself
- 24.52% are for providing learning sessions on online communication
- 18.91% stand for training discussion moderators, членів Арбітражного комітету навичкам посередництва
- 5.30% other propositions (tba)
Have respondents been in some kind of conflict for the pas 12 months? (Q14)
- 1592 survey participants provided answer
- 15.20% have been
- 84.80% have not been
Gender Gap
Do respondents agree that it is necessary to encourage more women to edit Wikipedia and Wikiprojects? (Q16)
- 2235 survey participants provided answer
- 32.66% totally agree
- 26.76% partly agree
- 6.09% partly disagree
- 6.40% totally disagree
- 28.10% hard to answer
Do respondents have ideas how to implement this? (Q17)
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Note: the exact formulation of the question was: Do you have any ideas on what can be done?. As a result, most participants seem to have answered on what can be done to improve Wikipedia. / Зауваження: точне формулювання питання було таким: Чи є у Вас якісь ідеї щодо того, що можна зробити?. Як наслідок, більшість учасників відповіли про те, чи мають вони якісь ідеї щодо поліпшення Вікіпедії.
303 answers overall, however 136 just answered No or I have ideas. 167 provided one or more ideas / 303 відповіді загалом, але 136 із них лише відповіли Ні або У мене є ідеї. 167 надали одну або декілька ідей
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Why? Please explain (Q18)
[ for those who answered no ]
- 80 survey participants provided answer, however 25 just answered Because or I don't know/ 80 відповідей загалом, але 25 із них лише відповіли Тому або Не знаю.
- 55 provided one or more reasons / 55 надали одну або декілька причин
Topics mentioned more than once (note: no censorship) / Теми, згадані більш, ніж один раз (примітка: теми передані без цензури):
- No difference between genders, we should recruit both / Нема різниці між статями, потрібно залучати обидві (36)
- Якщо ви про заохочення жінок до редагування Вікіпедії, то я не бачу різниці між вікіпедистами та вікіпедистками. Мені здається, у чоловіків та жінок однакові причини, чому вони ще не починали редагувати Вікіпедію, тому не треба окремо заохочувати осіб жіночої статі.
- Залучення з огляду на гендерну приналежність повністю виправдовує себе лише в вузькоспеціалізованих дослідженнях і не має бути основною характеристикою для відбору ні для чоловіків, ні для жінок
- Тому що головне не стать, а розум, адекватність, повага до інших і тому подібні речі, які не залежать від статі, національності, віку та іншого.
- Насправді байдуже стать автора. Важлива лише грамотність. (і цей пункт писала феміністка).
- Women are bad editors / Жінки є поганими редакторами (9)
- Жінки найчастіше конфліктують
- Більшість жінок мають нижчій IQ за чоловічий
- Бо вони феміністки
- We cannot even encourage men / Не можемо залучити навіть чоловіків (5)
- Бо ще не створені умови заохочення навіть для чоловіків. Для чого гонитися за пустопорожніми показниками?
- Тому що кілька компетентних вікіпедистів вирішили не співпрацювати через суперечки, тому що вилучені окремі матеріали несправедливо, тому що патрульні не завжди компетентні. Коли виникає конфліктна ситуація, користувач залишається з проблемою сам на сам.
- We should not force anyone / Не можна когось примушувати (2)
- Вікіпедію мають редагувати на вільних засадах, будь-яка навмисна спроба когось залучити лише зашкодить принципам Вікіпедії
- Women don't want to edit / Жінки не хочуть редагувати (2)
- У жінок є інші справи
Questions related to Wikimedia Ukraine
Have you heard about Wikimedia Ukraine? (Q19)
[ for all, from 9, 16, 17, 18 ]
- 2188 survey participants provided answer
- 32.77% (717) have heard
- 14.85% (325) are aware of WMUA activity
- 52.38% (1146) do not know
[ for those who answered yes ]
What WMUA projects you have heard about or took part? (Q20)
- 834 survey participants provided answer
- 63.19% have not heard about any
- 36.81% heard about projects: tba
In what Wikimedia Ukraine projects respondents took part? (Q24)
- 54.71% mentioned: tba
- 45.29% did not participate in any
Do respondents agree that Wikimedia Ukraine provides substantial support to Wikipedia and Wikiprojects? (Q21)
- 299 survey participants provided answer
- 55.85% answered yes
- 29.77% partly agree
- 3.68% partly disagree
- 1.67% disagree
- 9.03% could not answer
[ for those who answered no]
What, in your opinion, should be done in order Wikimedia Ukraine provided more/better/visible support? (Q22)
tba