Developer Satisfaction Survey/2026/Responses
📖 Developer Satisfaction 2026 Report
🗣️ Responses
[edit]tl;dr
Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to the Developer Satisfaction Survey
- ↑ More responses – 207 responses— up 5% from 2025.
- ↑ More volunteers – 116 volunteer-only responses—up 7% from 2025.
- ↓ Fewer staff – 45 staff-only responses—down 26% from 2025.
This report examines the responses of 207 Wikimedia developers who completed the Developer Satisfaction Survey:
- 75 Wikimedia Foundation and Affiliate staff
- 127 non-staff volunteer developers and others.
In this report, we have excluded survey responses from unsubmitted surveys and from survey-takers where:
- The answers appeared to be non-good faith (e.g., open-text responses were keysmash: lasdjflkdsa), or
- The respondent indicated that they are not a developer
| # Role | Responses | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer only | 116 | 56.0% |
| WMF staff only | 45 | 21.7% |
| WMF staff and volunteer | 11 | 5.3% |
| Affiliate staff and volunteer | 11 | 5.3% |
| Others / Did not specify | 16 | 7.7% |
| Affiliate staff only | 8 | 3.9% |
| Grand Total | 207 | 100% |
Methodological considerations for the DSS 2026
[edit]- Sample/population: We asked respondents if they took the survey last year, and about half of respondents said that they did. This indicates to us that the DSS is closer to a sample survey than longitudinal data of a fixed population. However, as there is no defined and queryable population for Wikimedia developers to compare to, we do not know the extent to which the Developer Satisfaction Survey is representative of the entire population; for this reason, (as with previous years) we have not included margins of error or confidence intervals.