Wikipedia:User survey

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There is demand from some for there to be an optional User survey to be implemented across the Wikimedia Foundation's products that would contain questions to help improve newbie and regular user experiences; to inform future tool and project development; to help connect users with subjects, groups, and other readers/editors to improve their contributions to and benefits from Wikipedia; and to help researchers understand the community composition and dynamics.

Survey features
Features of such a survey:
 * 1) Separable.  Key questions should be on an initial page; with subsequent pages of questions that might be less-frequently answered.
 * 2) Repeatable.  Users should be able to retake the survey, particularly to complete sections or pages they had no time for at first
 * 3) Anonymizable.  Survey takers should have the option to remain anonymous when taking the survey, guaranteed that their responses would only be passed on in aggregate form.
 * 4) * Some may wish the option to be completely anonymous within the database, so that their survey input is not associated with their username. However, that might involve separating such non-repeatable, less-verifiable, more-anonymized results from the core results, and as a result might not be very useful to others...
 * 5) Updateable.  Survey writers will regularly revise the survey; it should allow updates while also ensuring that a minimum # of survey-takers take an identical older version, when necessary.

German Wikipedia survey

 *  Source. See also University of Würzburg survey, 2005.

Findings: Not indicated 0.9 % Full time 42.5 % Part time 10.4 % (School) pupil 6.6 % (University) student 25.5 % no employer-employee relationship 4.7 % Other (e.g. retirement) 9.4 % not indicated 4.7 % Single 50.9 % in firm partnership living 27.4 % marry 15.1 % divorced 1.9 %
 * The number of speakers of a given language is positively correlated with number of articles in that language Wikipedia. French, German and English speakers are the most active (highest number of articles per speaker). image
 * The number of articles is positively correlated with Gross Domestic Product, albeit with significant variance.image
 * Age: The mean age is approximately 30.8 years. The median is at 27 years. 62 per cent are between 15 and 32 years. Distribution flattens exponentially to at the higher age. The distribution is skewed to the right (there are more young wikipedians than old). image image
 * Gender: 88 % male; 10 % female; image, gender statistics are similar for the administrators sample
 * occupation:
 * Education: image Low validity, seems to indicate a bias towards natural sciences?
 * family

Source and method: preliminary results of University of Wuerzburg study (see WP:ACST; sample was 960) and others

Hebrew Wikipedia satisfaction survey
In July 2007, the Hebrew Wikipedia conducted a satisfaction survey among its readers. Costello volunteered to devise the platform for collecting the data and analyzing it. The results and their analysis are currently available in Hebrew. Further information in English is available here: Hebrew Wikipedia satisfaction survey.

Others

 * User:Sj/Survey/draft
 * User:Alterego's survey
 * Academic_studies of Wikipedia
 * General User Survey, a project to create a Wikimedia Foundation-wide survey in cooperation with UNU-MERIT. It was launched in October 2008, and final results were published in March 2010 at wikipediastudy.org.
 * meta:Research:Wikipedia Readership Survey 2011
 * April 2011 Editor Survey:
 * Project page
 * Results
 * meta:Research:Wikipedia Mobile Readers Survey 2011
 * meta:Research:Wikipedia Editors Survey 2011 November
 * meta:Research:Wikipedia Editors Survey 2012
 * meta:Research:Global South User Survey 2014
 * 2015 MediaWiki User Survey
 * meta:Research:Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Behaviour
 * Community Engagement Insights (a set of community surveys launched in 2016/17)