Talk:Editing Tasks Survey

Opt out
The opt out email doesn't seem to work very well. I sent a message asking to opt out after I got a survey invitation, then I immediately got another survey invitation! Y'all got your wires crossed or something? Get your own coding straight before you go surveying how others do it, LOL! --Ashanda (talk) 18:00, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Ashanda - Sorry you opted out and then got another survey. We are still working out some kinks in how we send out surveys and coordinate everything. We have definitely removed your email from our participant database at this point. So we can learn from this, how did you opt out? Did you send an email to this address optoutresearch@wikimedia.org, or another way?--ARipstra (WMF) (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Categories
The selection categories appear to be limited to Wikipedia editing, however my responses were based on overall MediaWiki use, primarily on Wikiversity. So, my response counts won't be consistent with the selection grouping. This may skew your data if others have similar editing patterns on other wikis. -- Dave Braunschweig (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your feedback! We will keep this in mind as we look at the data. --ARipstra (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Focus on Wikipedia
To partially echo what Dave said above - if your goal is to create better editing tools, you need to look beyond Wikipedia. I suspect that the majority of editing now does not occur on Wikipedia, or even on Wikimedia projects. Power users may have left Wikipedia to work on their own projects; when they return they know wikitext but not [specific template for this circumstance]. GreenReaper (talk) 18:17, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your thoughts and feedback here. We will definitely keep this in mind as we move forward. --ARipstra (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Spam look-alike
Two emails came. The first was border-line: was it spam or wasn’t it? The second had the link to this page — though the path should have been the link text.

Please could future emails be writtem as if not spam? Include words about the sender that suggest at least a spear-phish.

(Wikipedia editor JDAWiseman). 81.159.85.201 18:22, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to communicate with us about this. Would you mind forwarding the two emails you got back to me at aripstra@wikimedia.org? In order for us to prevent this in future, it would help to see it from your perspective. --ARipstra (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)