TWiki Foundation Survey 2012

TO DO: State overall goal of survey.

Survey is anonymous; aggregated results will be made public.

Unless stated otherwise, all questions have radio button answers: (strongly disagree, disagree, fine as is, agree, strongly agree, don't care)

Older surveys we can learn from: TWikiCommunitySurvey, ContributorSurveyOct2004

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Survey Draft

• About myself
  • my role within my organization (4 choices, pick best match)... hide my role
    • individual contributor
    • manager
    • adviser
    • executive
  • My organization or business type (6 choices, pick best match)... hide org type
    • Business
    • Non-profit
    • Government
    • Education
    • Research
    • More than one of these
  • My organization or business size (3 choices, pick best match)... hide org scale
    • Small / non incorporated, or incorporated and operating in one city only
    • Company / incorporated and less than 5 sites
    • Enterprise / larger company, or any size multi-national

• About my organization's wiki
  • my role within the wiki (8 choices, pick best match)... hide my wiki role
    • not using it myself at all
    • champion planning to use
    • champion using and encouraging
    • gardener tending
    • active contributor
    • occasional contributor
    • active reader
    • occasional reader
  • Total number of people using our wiki (10 choices, pick best match)... hide how many users
    • up to 10
    • 30
    • 100
    • 300
    • 1000
    • 3000
    • 10,000
    • more than this
    • I don't know but I think fairly few
    • I don't know but I think more than half of us do
  • our wiki faces (4 choices, check all that apply)... hide our wiki facing
    • internal users
    • partner sites or organizations
    • customers, clients
    • the open internet
  • current wiki size (5 choices, pick best match)... hide our current wiki size
    • not set up yet
    • small / less than 100 pages
    • medium / less than 1000 pages
    • larger than this
    • I don't know but it does have content
  • planned wiki size (5 choices, pick best match)... hide our planned wiki size
    • small / less than 100 pages
    • medium / less than 1000 pages
    • larger than this
    • any size / intentionally variable
    • not planning to use one
  • our wiki activity level (5 choices, pick best match)... hide our wiki activity level
    • bursts
    • planned changes
    • users edit occasionally
    • users edit constantly
    • I don't know
  • our wiki active editor count (6 choices, pick best match)... hide our wiki editor count
    • none yet, only champions
    • few / a webmaster team
    • some / less than 30
    • many / less than 60
    • lots / less than 300
    • uncountable / more than this
  • Wiki plugins, applications, features I use most: (text box)
  • other variable-content or whiteboard-like apps we use (3 choices, pick best match)... hide our collaborative tools alignment
    • live in harmony with wiki on similar topics
    • compete against wiki (moving toward wiki, moving away from wiki, replaced wiki completely, wiki has replaced them, mixed user opinions)
    • work in different topic space than wiki
  • features that keep other collaborative tools active at our organization (text box)

• TWiki code base:
  • I value stable/compatible code base
  • I value rapid evolution of new features
  • I want TWiki production releases: (pick one)
    • once a year
    • twice a year
    • every month

• New features & usability:
  • TWiki needs more focus on usability (6 categories, radiobutton survey + 1 freeform category)... hide twiki usability traits
    • editing text
    • customizable look-and-feel
    • accessibility
    • admin controls
    • internationalization / i18n
    • installation
    • other (text box)
  • I want to see progress in the StructuredWiki field
  • I am interested in a marketplace for TWiki applications
  • Describe new features I'd like to see: (text box)

• Community & foundation:
  • My organization can potentially support a TWiki foundation with a yearly membership fee
  • My organization can potentially support a TWiki foundation with developers
  • My organization can potentially support a TWiki foundation with testers
  • Please share your thoughts on what is important in a TWiki foundation: (text box)
  • I value a certification program for / reputation system of TWiki consultants
  • I want to learn more on how to best deploy an enterprise wiki at work
  • I want to learn how to create TWiki applications, such as contact lists, inventory systems, task trackers...

• Ultimate Feedback:
  • What else would you like to see in the TWiki open source project: (text box)

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny, GeorgeTrubisky - 2012-03-16

Discussion

I've been charged with facilitating the agile practice of continuous integration development at Safeway. One of the communication tools I'm using is MS web application development SharePoint "community" site. (Safeway does not have TWiki) I've been frustrated by the lack of a simple way to combine 3 different widely used objects (lists, wiki pages and discussion boards) on a single web page that the features of a structured wiki "topic" addresses. As I started to work on this survey I think a question centered around the benefits of structured wiki's will be helpful. Besides the StructuredWiki topic page on the subject, I also found another article by the FOSwiki group on structured wikis with diagrams. I'm thinking a diagram comparing a structured wiki topic vs a MS sharepoint community site would be good context background.

-- GeorgeTrubisky - 2012-04-13

Quite often, a survey I participate doesn't have a question about which I've been wondering. So how about providing a free text comment in the survey?

-- HideyoImazu - 2012-04-13

Good point. Added.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-04-13

I have added a section and some points asking how (or if) they use their current wiki. I think it will be useful to know if we are luring people toward wiki, pushing them away but this can be fixed, or if they have very little experience with it.

Questions can hint ways many sites use wiki. If they are a young wiki they may use the ideas to their advantage.

I'm currently expanding the content, I plan to also use Twisty. Edit: twisty is set up.

I chose to make the "compete with wiki" have a sub-question, because I think splitting those out into separate selections implies there's a clear definition among the states, and in my consulting experience, there rarely was.

-- HeatherStern - 2012-04-14