[Translators-l] Help us translate a global community survey for Wikimedia

Wed Dec 7 14:06:24 UTC 2016

Hello Mathieu,

Thank your for responding and sharing your concerns.

As Edward mentioned already, the survey is quite lengthy as it covers
several different areas in which the Foundation interacts and serves the
Wikimedia Communities. The absolute number of questions in the survey is
not necessarily the number of questions every participant will see, as many
questions are shown or hidden entirely depending on some of their
responses. You can see some information about the survey here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_Insights

Even though thoughts and feedback are very welcome, do keep in mind that
major changes to the structure and length of the survey at this point are
not possible.

Any assistance one may be able to provide with completing the translations
is always welcome :)

K.

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 at 15:31, mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:

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> [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_
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