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I am running a survey to find out how MediaWiki can be improved for the typical non-Wikimedia user. The survey was reviewed by several MWStake folks, who are also sharing it on their own platforms. Having a banner here on MediaWiki.org would be fantastic.

You can read more about the surveys on my company blog at https://professional.wiki/en/news/mediawiki-survey. Note that the surveys themselves are not branded in any way.

I'd like to run a banner that links to the surveys for a few days starting later this week and am posting here as a request for permission.

-- Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 08:43, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

(Repost of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Sitenotice#MediaWiki_survey)

This seems like a reasonable idea to me; do others agree?

I think this is fine. In my volunteer capacity I helped run a similar survey in 2015 regarding MediaWiki and would find it interesting to have updated information.

It took a while but I just added a request to participate in the survey to the site notice. Thanks again for accepting it.

There is no information who is requesting my participation, and the link in that banner just sent me to a third-party website without any warning (or link to a privacy policy before I clicked that link). :-/

Uh, yeah, I just disabled the sitenotice. There's no warning that you're going to Google before clicking the link, nor any information about who is conducting the survey, who the data will be shared with, how long it will be kept, what results will be made available, etc.

I suggest creating a wiki page with all of that information and a prominent link to the survey, then we have the site notice link to that wiki page so people are informed before they end up at Google.

Category:Survey privacy statements has plenty of examples of what kind of information should be disclosed to people before they take a survey.

Also to be clear, I have no objection to promoting the survey in the sitenotice, just want to make sure we're respecting everyone's privacy and being upfront/transparent about what's happening.

Thanks for the feedback. Probably it is better to send people to a landing page on this wiki which contains the relevant links instead of adding three links to the banner. I am sorry for the issues this approach had.

2015 MediaWiki User Survey might be a past example to expand on.

Thank you for bearing with me for a while. I have in the meantime created a landing page for this survey which includes all relevant information. I guess this can go live some time next week.

I will add the banner this evening. Guess this is ok, since our homework was done.