Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023/Survey results
This page contains the results of a survey of Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023 participants after the conference in Istanbul in October 2023.
A total of 28 people participated in the survey, which is 31.1% of all conference participants.
Scholarship Process[edit]
This year, the provision of scholarships for affiliation representatives was systematized and received an official face, where the process of electing/selecting delegates to the conference was delegated to the affiliations themselves. There were two pools of delegates:
- User Groups with Bylaws and a formal Board of Trustees can go through the same steps in selecting delegates as chapters. Both types of affiliation elected/selected delegates through their governing bodies (Board of Trustees).
- Communities without any affiliates (Chapters and User Groups) must elect their delegates through community consultations.
We also provided scholarships to those individuals who applied for the conference program and whose application was accepted by the program committee. These individuals made important contributions to the conference program.
Survey results:
| Question | Agree | Disagree | Neither agree nor disagree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Was it easy to understand the scholarship application process? | 15 | 0 | 2 |
| The scholarship application was easy to complete | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| I was informed of my application status clearly and in a timely manner | 15 | 0 | 2 |
Event venue and environment[edit]
The original plan was to hold the conference at Üsküdar University, with which Wikimedia UG Turkey has a partnership. But, unfortunately, due to regional issues, it was decided to change the conference's location, which finally took place in the Mercure Istanbul Altunizade Hotel.
89% of conference participants surveyed were satisfied with the environment, accessibility, and language support of the conference space.
Recommendations for the future:
- Improve video quality.
- Improve room lighting.
- improve the technical infrastructure of the rooms.
Strengths:
- The quality of the conference translation.
- Catering.
- The program was well-designed with two tracks.
General experience[edit]
1. Program: 92.8% of conference participants noted that they gained the best skills and experience from the conference program and that the session topic interested them. The same number of participants indicated that they gained knowledge relevant to their activities in the Wikimedia Movement. Most participants indicated that they would apply the skills and knowledge they received from the conference in their work.
1.1. Some useful, exciting knowledge and skills conference participants gained at Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023:
- OpenRefine
- Different insight into how other language wikis deal with problems we might all have
- Student WikiClubs
- Lingua Libre
- Wikidata
- Wikisource
- Lexemes
- General knowledge about the Wikimedia Movement
- WikiClubs
- WikiCamps
- Pattypan
- Wikitravel
1.2. How conference participants will implement their knowledge:
- Use workshops for their Community
- Meetups
- Via Village pump
- Local events
2. Experience: 86% of the conference participants showed that while participating in the conference, they felt part of the Wikimedia Movement and wanted to be actively involved in the development of the Movement and Wikimedia projects.
3. Recommendations for the future:
- Encouraging more representation
- Another city for the next meeting
- Different games like Kahoots daily and small prizes
- Be more open to sister projects
- More participants from small Wikipedias
- Need more interesting workshops
- More social events
- A little more detail in the program
- More diverse topics