Talk pages consultation 2019/Trade-offs survey

During Phase 2 of the talk page consultation we will discuss the trade-offs that have emerged during Phase 1. To facilitate and supplement these discussions we plan to run a survey (open to all consultation participants, translated to multiple languages) that allows for force-ranking of options.

Data from the survey will potentially be able to answer the following questions:


 * 1) If Talk pages and StructuredDiscussions are both kept as separate tools, what features would be needed to improve both?
 * 2) *By looking at the individual ranking questions and their follow-ups, the team will be able to see the order of importance users place on individual suggestions, as well as what their cut-off is between what would be considered absolutely necessary and not.
 * 3) If a new product is built, what features would be necessary for editor satisfaction?
 * 4) *By combining the ranking questions' answers and their follow-ups.

Draft survey questions

 * 1) How long have you been editing wikis? (there is probably an existing scale we should use)
 * 2) 0-3 months
 * 3) 3-12 months
 * 4) 1-3 years
 * 5) 3+ years
 * 6) How would you describe your experience level at editing wikis?
 * 7) I don't know anything about editing wikis
 * 8) I know only the basics
 * 9) I know a lot
 * 10) I know most or all of the advanced editing features
 * 11) How would you describe your experience level at communicating with other wiki editors on-wiki?
 * 12) I have never communicated with another wiki editor
 * 13) I have only communicated a few times
 * 14) I communicate frequently with other editors
 * 15) If you edit, where do you edit?
 * 16) Wikipedia
 * 17) Wikidata
 * 18) Wikimedia Commons
 * 19) Wiktionary
 * 20) Wikisource
 * 21) etc...
 * 22) I don't edit
 * 23) What is your preferred method of communicating with other wiki editors?
 * 24) Talk pages
 * 25) StructuredDiscussions (orig. Flow)
 * 26) Off-wiki
 * 27) I don't communicate with other editors
 * 28) For Talk pages, please rank the following suggested improvements in order of importance. Please skip if you feel you do not know enough about this feature. (Note: This list is collated from past feedback. It will be adjusted to reflect Consultation feedback; also note that Qualtrics provides linking.)
 * 29) * Standardized archive bots
 * 30) * Avatars
 * 31) * Clear topic creation indicator
 * 32) * Topic close toggle
 * 33) * Special:OpenTopics
 * 34) * Link permanence
 * 35) * Mentioning users
 * 36) * Quoting mechanism
 * 37) * Reply feature
 * 38) * Automatic indentation
 * 39) * Automatic signatures
 * 40) * History preservation with thread move
 * 41) * Watch threads
 * 42) * Adaptive time stamps
 * 43) * Usefulness indicator of posts/comments
 * 44) * Visual Editor integration
 * 45) * Cross-thread linking
 * 46) * Separate mobile interface
 * 47) * VPN editing
 * 48) * Personal control over user talk page
 * 49) * Multiple "thanks" options
 * 50) *# Looking at how you ranked features, where would you draw the cut-off of items that are an absolute necessity? (Note: Qualtrics has a "carry over" feature that essentially combines this question and the previous so respondents may look at their rankings.)
 * 51) For StructuredDiscussions (originally Flow), please rank the following suggested improvements in order of importance. Please skip if you feel you do not know enough about this feature. (Note: This list is collated from past feedback. It will be adjusted to reflect Consultation feedback.; also note that Qualtrics provides linking.)
 * 52) * Avatars
 * 53) * Less white space
 * 54) * Support for switching between editors
 * 55) * Links in edit summaries
 * 56) * Greater editing flexibility (a la wikitext)
 * 57) * Post-by-date calendar for threads
 * 58) * Thread title searching
 * 59) * Special:Unresolved topics
 * 60) * Mention users in footnotes
 * 61) * Notifications mouseover
 * 62) * Adding non-desktop notifications
 * 63) * Quoting
 * 64) * Split, merge, move, or relocate topics or parts of topics
 * 65) * Per-user collapse/uncollapse topics
 * 66) * Expansive topic filtering
 * 67) * Bulk hide threads
 * 68) * Hide topic titles
 * 69) * Improved counter-vandalism
 * 70) * VPN editing
 * 71) * Separate mobile interface
 * 72) * Consolidate thread diffs
 * 73) *# Looking at how you ranked features, where would you draw the cut-off of items that are an absolute necessity? (Note: Qualtrics has a "carry over" feature that essentially combines this question and the previous so respondents may look at their rankings.)