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Developer Satisfaction Survey/2024/Responses

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📖 Developer Satisfaction 2024 Report

🗣️ Responses

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tl;dr

  • ↑ More responses171 responses! The most ever for the Developer Satisfaction Survey—up 33% from 2023.
  • ↑ More volunteer-only96 volunteer-only responses—up 159% from 2023.
  • ↓ Fewer staff-only41 staff-only responses—down 33% from 2023.

This report examines the responses of 171 Wikimedia developers who completed the survey:

  • 68 Wikimedia Foundation and/or Affiliate staff
  • 96 non-staff volunteer developers.

In this report, we have excluded survey responses from unsubmitted surveys (N=387) and from survey-takers where (N=41):

  • The answers appeared to be non-good faith (e.g., open-text responses were keysmash: lasdjflkdsa)
  • The respondent indicated that they are not a developer, or
  • survey responses were incomplete.
Role Responses Percent
Volunteer only 96 56.1%
WMF staff only 41 24.0%
WMF staff and volunteer 14 8.2%
Others (not WMF staff, nor volunteer, nor affiliate staff) 7 4.1%
Affiliate staff and volunteer 6 3.5%
Affiliate staff only 5 2.9%
WMF staff and affiliate staff 2 1.2%
Grand Total 171 100%