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Open-ended survey of English Wikipedia readers v2
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This task tracks Version 2 of OE surveys of English Wikipedia readers designed to identify reader use cases.

Objective: recruit ~500 readers from English Wikipedia to answer a series of open-ended questions about why and how they're using Wikipedia. The results will help us to develop a categorization of reader use cases and to develop close-ended questions for a subsequent larger survey.

When: in field July 23-30
Audience: Readers of English Wikipedia (global) excluding active editors (5+ edits in past month) anons only
Coverage: 1:400 sampling ratio (but let's start with zero coverage as a test)
Note: Please record the QS token

Survey Type: External hosted on Limesurvey
Survey Name: English Wikipedia Readers Use Cases Survey

QS Message: "Would you be willing to take a short survey to help us better understand and improve the Wikipedia reading experience?"

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  • Pre-deploy survey
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Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2operations/mediawiki-configmaster+0 -26
Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2operations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -1
Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2operations/mediawiki-configmaster+26 -0
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YLiou_WMF created this task.Jul 16 2025, 4:18 PM
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YLiou_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 16 2025, 4:22 PM
YLiou_WMF added a subscriber: DDeSouza.Jul 16 2025, 4:25 PM

@DDeSouza can we deploy this at zero coverage today (July 16, 2025)? We are thinking we'll deploy starting on July 17 at 1:400 coverage.

Just want to note that we also want to make sure to record the QS token. Thanks!

YLiou_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 16 2025, 4:28 PM
YLiou_WMF claimed this task.Jul 16 2025, 4:30 PM
YLiou_WMF added a subscriber: MRaishWMF.
YLiou_WMF mentioned this in T398870: Open-ended survey of enwiki readers.Jul 16 2025, 4:32 PM
DDeSouza added a comment.EditedJul 16 2025, 6:02 PM

Readers of English Wikipedia (global) excluding active editors (5+ edits in past month)

@YLiou_WMF As far as I know this is not possible. The current version of QuickSurveys has the maxEdits audience filter but it don't work with specific time periods. To note, T362640 and T364955 aims to implement that.

Just want to note that we also want to make sure to record the QS token.

Gotcha! Will use that setting by default on all surveys. Even when unnecessary it's harmless to have it.

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 16 2025, 7:47 PM

Change #1170206 had a related patch set uploaded (by DDesouza; author: DDesouza):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1170206

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 16 2025, 7:47 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 16 2025, 8:08 PM

Change #1170206 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1170206

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 16 2025, 8:09 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-16T20:09:09Z] <bvibber@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1170207|cirrus: configure managed cluster list]], [[gerrit:1170206|Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 16 2025, 8:11 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-16T20:11:33Z] <bvibber@deploy1003> ebernhardson, dani, bvibber: Backport for [[gerrit:1170207|cirrus: configure managed cluster list]], [[gerrit:1170206|Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 16 2025, 8:18 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-16T20:18:14Z] <bvibber@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1170207|cirrus: configure managed cluster list]], [[gerrit:1170206|Pre-deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] (duration: 09m 04s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 16 2025, 8:30 PM
YLiou_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 16 2025, 8:52 PM
YLiou_WMF removed a project: Research (FY2025-26-Research-July-September).Jul 16 2025, 9:04 PM
Aklapper added a project: Research (FY2025-26-Research-July-September).Jul 17 2025, 5:52 AM

Hi @YLiou_WMF, I'm readding the project tag as the parent task also has that project tag. This will allow to see a task when looking at project workboards or searching for tasks in certain projects, and get notified about a task when watching a related project tag. If there is a better project tag, please correct - thanks!

YLiou_WMF moved this task from FY2025-26-Research-July-September to In Progress on the Research board.Jul 17 2025, 1:15 PM
YLiou_WMF edited projects, added Research; removed Research (FY2025-26-Research-July-September).
YLiou_WMF added a comment.Jul 17 2025, 1:16 PM

OK Thank you!

DDeSouza updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 17 2025, 2:13 PM
YLiou_WMF added a comment.Jul 18 2025, 2:54 PM

@DDeSouza let's deploy at full coverage on July 23 (we want to make sure we capture some weekend traffic). Thank you!

DDeSouza updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 20 2025, 10:36 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 20 2025, 10:38 PM

Change #1170760 had a related patch set uploaded (by DDesouza; author: DDesouza):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1170760

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 20 2025, 10:38 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 24 2025, 1:05 PM

Change #1170760 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1170760

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 24 2025, 1:05 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-24T13:05:54Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1170760|Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 24 2025, 1:09 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-24T13:09:57Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> lucaswerkmeister-wmde, dani: Backport for [[gerrit:1170760|Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 24 2025, 1:18 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-24T13:18:01Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1170760|Deploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] (duration: 12m 07s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 24 2025, 1:31 PM
DDeSouza updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 24 2025, 1:37 PM
TRooks-WMF subscribed.Jul 24 2025, 8:03 PM
MRaishWMF mentioned this in T393802: Readers foundational research: what do readers use Wikipedia for? when and why do people use other apps/sites for these same needs? .Jul 25 2025, 5:48 PM
YLiou_WMF added a comment.Jul 28 2025, 12:50 PM

@DDeSouza we've gotten a lot of responses already so I think we're ready to undeploy! Thanks!

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 28 2025, 6:28 PM

Change #1173441 had a related patch set uploaded (by DDesouza; author: DDesouza):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1173441

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 28 2025, 6:28 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 29 2025, 1:02 PM

Change #1173441 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1173441

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 29 2025, 1:03 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-29T13:03:03Z] <dani@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1173441|Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Jul 29 2025, 1:05 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-29T13:05:13Z] <dani@deploy1003> dani: Backport for [[gerrit:1173441|Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

DDeSouza updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 29 2025, 1:10 PM
Stashbot added a comment.Jul 29 2025, 1:12 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-29T13:12:23Z] <dani@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1173441|Undeploy Readers Use Cases Survey v2 (T399736)]] (duration: 09m 19s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 29 2025, 1:31 PM
YLiou_WMF closed this task as Resolved.Aug 27 2025, 1:07 PM
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