Weekly update:

• survey draft shared with stakeholders, input incorporated into draft.
• qualtrics will be used to field survey.
• will attempt to field ASAP once survey draft finalized and approved by stakeholders

Analysis on age and other platforms used by readers to learn and access knowledge provided as input to the Global Trends APP presentation.

Weekly update:

• Survey draft to be shared early next week.
• Decision to be made early next week on Qualtrics or Limesurvey administration
• Tentative plan to field in English and in Spanish

Weekly update:

• Coordinating an unconference session at upcoming WE3/FA offsite for input to survey draft.
• Survey drafting continues

Analysis is underway, will coordinate with @CMyrick-WMF for work to happen next week.

No updates this week

• Research team for this project has been assembled and roles and responsibilities assigned.
  • Initial project timeline has been developed.
  • Survey drafting is underway

Weekly update:

• Non-english surveys deployed and collecting responses
• weighting process underway for english survey

Yes, I think that's the way to go.

@DDeSouza we're looking to deploy this survey next week. Can we get this set up to be ready to go on Monday (November 24)? Thanks!

Weekly update:

• survey data analysis is continuing to be added to deck for stakeholders
• preliminary presentations of survey data conducted for stakeholders this week
• final deck expected to be shared next week (and hypothesis for T393802 closed)

Weekly update:

• Survey data has been weighted by OS family, browser family, referrer type, geography (by country), browser language preference, whether user was reading an article in the top 0.05% of enwiki articles by traffic (to adjust for "spiky" traffic)
• Session length and article topic data analysis begun
• Phase II survey analysis incorporated into draft readers foundational report deck

Weekly update:

• Preliminary survey response results shared with T393802 research team.
• Queried and joined session data with survey responses
• Queried and joined topics data
• Began Stage II Analyses

Weekly update:

• Phase II Survey was undeployed October 6- response rates *far exceeded expectation* and we recorded ~190,000 unique survey sessions with at least one response (while we had more than enough responses on October 3, we could not undeploy until October 6.
• Analysis (both survey and web request) is underway.
• Phase III survey script is being drafted

@DDeSouza we've got plenty of responses coming in! So let's plan on undeploying on Monday October 6. Thanks!

Weekly update:

• Internal (QS) short survey fielded Oct 2. Have been able to verify that we are recording answers in the QS response table. We anticipate undeploying on Oct 6.

Weekly update:

• Reader Foundational Research:
  • Diary study data collection continues
  • Closed-ended survey draft shared with stakeholders, request for new privacy statement submitted, beginning process for programming and deployment

Weekly update:

• Survey draft work on closed-ended QS survey is underway: tentatively planned to include three use case classification questions and three demographic questions (age, education, gender)
• Survey timeline for closed-ended QS survey tentatively established (hope to complete data collection prior to planned introduction of temp accounts on enwiki in early October)

Weekly update:

• Reader Foundational Research:
  • Diary study data collection is underway
  • Work on closed-ended survey instrument draft is underway, research team met to establish timelines for fielding dates in light of expected temp user account introduction on English Wikipedia (currently slated for Early October): specifically, aim to complete data collection before this
• QuickSurveys: Yu-Ming and Tanja inputted to QuickSurvey updates scoping (working document [internal]).
• Newcomers survey: The survey launched on the 9th and is collecting data! An issue with ad blockers affecting event logs is causing a proportion of responses to not have a corresponding quicksurvey event; Tanja and Yu-Ming are brainstorming on how to account for this with weights.

Weekly update:

• Reader Foundational Research: we have confirmed logistics for recruitment of Userlytics panelists for the diary study
• Understanding mentorship experiences: 0-coverage QuickSurvey was deployed and appears to be working well; the survey was announced on the enwiki Village Pump on the 3rd; we're scheduled to increase coverage on the QuickSurvey and start collecting data on the 9th!
• Reader Research Direction: initial draft has been completed and shared for feedback

No major updates this week

Weekly update:

• Understanding mentorship experiences: Research page published as well as the questionnaire (for community reference and documentation), drafted a Resources page for respondents, and the privacy statement request is in progress. Miriam and Tanja worked on finalizing the KR language and it should be added to the WE1.1 KRs soon.

Weekly update:
Reader foundational research:

• incorporating stakeholder feedback on project direction and use case framework

Survey support desk:

• Yu-Ming and Tanja inputted to new QuickSurveys infrastructure improvements requests version based on recent experiences with surveys and identified needs within the Foundation

Understanding mentorship experiences:

• Gathered feedback from stakeholder and Research team testers of the survey draft, made a codebook for the survey with strategic mapping of the questions, began working on a resource end-page for survey respondents.

Update August 1, 2025:

• Reader foundational research: v2 survey responses have been team-coded; analysis of responses and session data continues. Preliminary framework based on OE surveys to be shared with stakeholders next week.
• Survey support desk: discovered an issue with the SMTP email setup for Qualtrics, working with SRE to get it fixed for the upcoming Readers Diary study
• Understanding mentorship experiences: stakeholder requests & suggestions in the newcomers survey draft are being incorporated into a revised questionnaire; qualitatively explored a small random sample of editors who fit the survey target population to better understand what kinds of questions make sense to ask and what sorts of patterns of behavior and dynamics the larger group might have
• AI use cases write-up:
  • Discussing with @Miriam where to publish this work.

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

Update July 25, 2025:

• Reader foundational research: v2 survey was fielded starting July 24; analysis of v1 survey results continues; preliminary analysis of v2 results and drafting of phase 2 survey has begun.

Update July 18, 2025:

• Reader Foundational research: v2 of the OE use cases survey will be fielded starting July 23, 2025; analysis of v1 responses and reading data collection is underway
• Survey support desk: @YLiou_WMF provided consultative support for the Wikimania 2025 after-event survey

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

OK Thank you!

This survey has closed. Based on initial qualitative analysis of open-ended responses, we have decided to field a new iteration starting July 17: T399736

@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.

@DDeSouza can we undeploy today? We've already collected more responses than we expected!

@DDeSouza we should be ready to go ahead and deploy at 1:200 coverage! Thanks!

@DDeSouza just updated the privacy statement link! So we should be ready to go with pre-deployment for testing!