@KStoller-WMF this one makes me sad but I don't think you're necessarily wrong. One thought: rather than just removing it, why don't we think about it less as a survey and more as a simple onboarding flow? So instead of "Why did you create your account today?" with a dropdown and this being purely extractive, we have a "What do you plan to do?" with buttons maybe like:

• To create a new Wikipedia article: if click, redirect to something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Your_first_article?
• To edit a specific Wikipedia article: maybe we provide an embedded search bar for them to find it?
• To learn how to edit: maybe we redirect to Newcomer Homepage?
• To read Wikipedia: if clicks, redirects to Main page?
• I'm not sure what I want to do: if clicks, maybe there's a general community hub we could redirect to like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction?

And then the log data on these button clicks would functionally act in a similar way to the Welcome Survey data. Caveat that it's been a long time since I've created an account so I don't fully understand the existing flow and the above perhaps makes no sense.

@Isaac - thanks for the feedback!

I gave this task a rather controversial title in order to help prompt discussion because I really think a change is needed because we no longer have easy access to survey results T394559: Welcome survey data: access to response data. But there isn't a plan to move this task forward.

What you are describing is closer to what we hope to accomplish here: Using contextual, in-product prompts instead of a one-time survey and integrating personalization directly into the user experience.

Some ideas here: T425725#11903233

I gave this task a rather controversial title in order to help prompt discussion because I really think a change is needed because we no longer have easy access to survey results

Love it -- it got me to think deeply about what I actually wanted here as opposed to just defending the Welcome Survey as status quo.

What you are describing is closer to what we hope to accomplish here: Using contextual, in-product prompts instead of a one-time survey and integrating personalization directly into the user experience.
Some ideas here: T425725#11903233

Thanks for linking these two up! I'll likely give more feedback under the auspices of WE1.9 but I think if we're going to go this route, I'd like to see us push it a little bit further to reach the point where, to the editor, they're just exploring / customizing their Homepage and nothing about it feels like a survey or unwanted friction (to your Key Issues summary).

@KStoller-WMF Since we're considering reworking the Welcome Survey in FY 26-27 Q1 to use questions that will inform the new editor experience, is removal still something we'd like to consider?