Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3335785-20130314201106/@comment-4839035-20130315220728

Foodbandlt wrote: 452 wrote: I don't think a single person in this thread has said that the survey should have been open to everyone - so you are making a strawman argument.

Sending a single survey email to only a certain group is one thing. Sending a series of informational emails is another.

Even if I don't live in Chicago and don't own a dog, I should be allowed to allowed to subscribe to the Chicago Canine Club email newsletter if I wish.

I wasn't trying to say that everyone should be allowed to take the survey, I'm sorry if it seemed like I did. How would they have efficiently distributed the survey link for a closed sample with a blog post?

Jenburton did not say that future emails would be strictly informational. To quote from the email:

"sometimes the email will focus on a new feature or product change, others may include surveys so we can learn more about what you need from us to be successful"

I'm sure if a "feature of product change" concerned everyone on Wikia, then Wikia Staff would definitely write a blog post concerning it. Otherwise, the survey links still need to be distributed only to those who are intended to take it to keep a closed sample. The content of future emails would definitely be better explained by Jenburton herself, though.

Vandraedha wrote: Yes, but to use your analogy, why send an email only to women who own dogs when what you really want to know is "how many people own dogs in Chicago"? People includes men, women, and children (and possibly cats).

In my analogy, women in Chicago represented the administrators of trafficked wikis. I'm not sure where your analogy is going in relation to that, I'm sorry. Yes, I see what you're saying. But when would a new feature release be of interest only to admins on high-trafficked wikis? Maybe I'm interested. Maybe a wiki doesn't need to be high-trafficked to know what horrible features are in store for them.

Not too mention how inaccurate these rankings are. Because Psy has 1,000,000,000 YouTube hits, does that make him a decent singer? I don't think so. Look at Logopeia for an example. It's got 20,000 pages and loads of traffic, yet it is run horrendously (Hundreds of Candidates for deletion, Thousands of unused files, Useless category structure, Rules that look like they were written by a two year-old etc). Just 'cause it's big, doesn't mean it's good.

Enough of that, I've got an important question: @Jenburton: Please add me to the mailing list. I would like to help answering surveys and getting news as I'm interested in new features and how they're affect my wiki. Thank you.