Survey live on Programs & Events Dashboard

Wiki Education will focus on improving Programs & Events Dashboard in 2021 and 2022. This survey will help us identify the most important areas for improvement and missing features.

There are up to 14 questions, most of which are optional. You can preview the questions here on Meta.

Your responses to this survey may be shared with staff of Wiki Education and Wikimedia Foundation. Survey responses are also viewable by Programs & Events Dashboard admins.

What kinds of events have you used the Dashboard for?

Editathon
Wiki editing assignment for school
Editing contest
Other

About how often do you use the Dashboard?

Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Several times per year
Once per year or less
Never

Rate each of these as an area you'd like Wiki Education to focus on. (1 is not important, 5 is very important)

[options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, "I don't know"]

Better written documentation
Video tutorials
Creating accounts for new users and adding them to their events
Alerts for on-wiki problems (like deletions or blocks)
Support for judging editing competitions
Better support for education program assignments
Better scoping of which edits are part of my event, and which edits are not
Easier ways to manage statistics for related sets of events
More detailed statistics for Wikipedia
More detailed statistics for Wikidata
More / better translations of training modules
Making language-specific features available in more languages (e.g., Authorship Highlighting)

Optional followup: What would be your top priority for improving the Dashboard?

Have you created or facilitated a program/event/editathon that others participated in?

(The following two questions are included if you answer yes.)

What is the experience level of the main audience for programs and events you've organized?

First-time and novice editors (fewer than 100 edits)
Retained editors (those who have participated in previous events as newcomers)
Experienced editors

(Optional followup) Explain more about the experience level of the audience for your events, if you want to.

What type(s) of audience have you organized programs and events for?

Activists
Youth
Subject-matter experts
Students
Other Wikimedians
Journalists
Photographers
Librarians
Other (please specify)

Which of the following problems have affected events you've organized or participated in?

Editors had trouble creating accounts
Editors had trouble joining the event on the Dashboard
The Dashboard did not track all the edits that were part of the event
The Dashboard included some edits that were not part of the event
Dashboard statistics were not updated quickly enough
Dashboard statistics were not accurate
Dashboard statistics didn't make sense
The Dashboard website was down
The Dashboard website loaded too slowly
The interface wasn't completely translated in my language
The interface was incorrectly translated in my language
Other

(optional followup) Additional details about problems you've encountered

For the Wikimedia events you organize or participate in, how much of a challenge or problem are each of these? (1 is not a problem, 5 is a major problem.)

[options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, "I don't know"]

advertising the event / finding participants
registering large numbers of new accounts
collecting usernames
collecting additional information from participants
helping newcomers feel connected to a community
training new users
keeping track of editing during the event
on-wiki problems (conflict with other editors, deletion nominations, etc.)
contacting participants during events
sharing success stories
finding / collecting all the required metrics
reporting back to WMF or other funders
retaining participants after the event

Have you used the Dashboard to share statistics or grant metrics with Wikimedia Foundation, partners, or other organizations?

(The following 2 questions will only be included for those who answer 'yes'.)

Which metrics and edit tracking tools have you used other than the Dashboard (e.g., Event Metrics, Fountain)?

[optional followup] Why did you choose to choose the Dashboard instead of these other tools?

How often do you use the Dashboard to track metrics for your programs / events?

I use it for all events
I use it for most events
I use it for some events
I use it very rarely

For events where you don't use the Dashboard to track metrics (if any), why not?

It doesn't track the relevant data
It is too complicated to set up a page
I have another tracking system that works better
I don't need to track any metrics
Other (specify below)

Any other ideas for improving the Dashboard? Comments? Questions?

If you're open to follow-up from Wiki Education or Wikimedia Foundation staff, please leave your username and tell us about yourself and how you use the Dashboard

Contact me if you have questions about my survey responses
You can quote my responses publicly
I'm open to a follow-up interview about my program organizing needs or Dashboard ideas

[optional] Who are you, what is is your role in the Wikimedia movement, and what kinds of events do you want to use the Dashboard for?