Developer Satisfaction Survey/2023/Demographics

👥 Demographics
 🔗 Roles



As part of processing, we manually removed 65 responses where:
 * The answers appeared to be non-good faith (e.g., all open-text responses were keysmash: lasdjflkdsa) (n=56)
 * The respondent indicated that they are not a developer (n=9), or
 * Survey responses were incomplete.

 🔗 Functional roles

We asked survey takers, “What are your current functional role(s) in the Wikimedia developer community?”

Roles are not mutually exclusive. Respondents were able to select multiple functional roles.



 🔗 Common role pairings

The most common role pairing was MediaWiki Extension developer + MediaWiki Core developer.

Additional common pairings included:
 * tool developer + MediaWiki Extension developer,
 * tool developer + gadget developer, and
 * MediaWiki Extension developer + gadget developer.



 🔗 Tenure

We asked survey takers, “For how many years have you been involved in the Wikimedia developer community in any role?”

The majority of respondents had 10 or fewer years of tenure.

About one fifth of respondents had 1 year of involvement or less.



 🔗 Tenure×Functional roles

We compared functional roles between two tenure buckets:


 * 1) respondents with 0-3 years tenure
 * 2) respondents with 4+ years tenure

The group of respondents with 0-3 years tenure had higher percentages of gadget developers and data engineers.

The group of respondents with 4+ years tenure had higher percentages of MediaWiki Extension developers, MediaWiki Core developers, tool developers, SRE infrastructure developers, and test engineers.

Both groups had roughly the same percentage of respondents in each bucket indicated being Service/API developers.



 🔗 Gender We asked survey takers, “How would you describe your gender identity?” Categories were not mutually exclusive. Respondents were able to select multiple gender identities if applicable.

Of those who answered the question:


 * the majority (70%) identified as man or male
 * 10.5% identified as woman or female
 * 6% identified as nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or transgender
 * 13% said they preferred not to provide their gender identity.



 🔗 Language

We asked survey takers, “Is English your first or primary language?”

The majority of respondents indicated that English is not their first or primary language.



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