Voting for ArbCom is now complete. You and ~140 fellow Wikipedian were randomly selected. Could you please (either on-wiki or via email)[a] answer this exit poll about the ArbCom candidates? Results will be published; answers will help improve Wikipedia by giving future candidates information about what you think is important. This is only an unofficial survey, and will have no impact on your actual vote during this election, nor in any future election. All questions (and portions thereof) are 100% optional.[b] Thanks for being a Wikipedian.
Please fill in as many blanks as you wish
edit- Once only please,[c] Your Wikipedia Username: ____
- Q#0. Will you be responding to the rest of the questions? Why Or Why Not: ____ General Comments: ____
- Q#1. How many edits to Wikipedia must arbs have? Your Numeric Answer: ____ Why: ____
- Q#2. How many years editing Wikipedia must arbs have? Your Numeric Answer: ____ Why: ____
- Q#3. Arbs... A: should not, B: should preferably not, C: maybe could D: should preferably E: must at least formerly, F: must currently... be an admin. Your Single-Letter Answer: ____ Why: ____
- Q#4. How many years of experience as an admin must arbs have, if any? Your Numeric Answer: ____ Why: ____
- Q#5. Completely optional, as all questions are optional: which candidates did you support this year, and why? Your List-Of-Usernames You Supported: ____ Why: ____
Tougher questions
edit- Q#6. Completely optional, as all questions are optional: which candidates did you oppose this year, and why? Your List-Of-Usernames You Opposed: ____ Why: ____
- Q#7. Who would you like to see run for ArbCom, in the December 2016 election, twelve months from now? Your List-Of-Usernames As Potential Future Candidates: ____ Why: ____
- Q#8_A. How did you learn about ArbCom elections?[d] What factors motivated you to vote in the election this year? Your List-Participation-Related-Factors: ____ Thoughts on those factors? ____
- Q#8_B. How did you learn about the candidates?[d] What factors motivated you to support or oppose them? Your List-Candidate-Related-Factors: ____ Thoughts on those factors? ____
- Q#9. For potential arbs, what are the right kind of contributions outside noticeboard activity?[e] Your List-Of-Ideal-Contributions: ____ Why? ____
- Q#10. For potential arbs, what are the right kind of background-experience at which specific noticeboards?[f] Your List-Of-Ideal-Noticeboards: ____ Why? ____
- Q#11. For potential arbs, what are the wrong kind of personality-temperament-indicators, at which specific noticeboards?[f] Your List-Of-Worrisome-Noticeboards: ____ Why? ____
- Q#12. Anything else we ought to know? Your Custom-Designed Question(s): ____ Your Custom-Designed Answer(s): ____
Feel free to completely ignore this part
edit- ^ To fill out these questions, at your option, you may answer directly via usertalk, answer via userspace subpage, or answer via email.
- ^ If you decide not to answer a question (all questions are optional), please put the reason down: "undecided" / "private information" / "prefer not to answer" / "question is not well-posed" / "other: please specify". Although the Signpost cannot guarantee that complex answers can be processed for publication, it will help us improve future exit polls, if you give us comments about why you could not answer specific questions.
- ^ You need not sign every answer with the tildes... leaving your wikipedia username once is enough. Entering your Wikipedia username is especially important at least once, if you are emailing your answers, so we can avoid double-counting and similar confusion.
- ^ a b For example, did you...
- A: ...see an announcement on your own talkpage
- B: ...see an on-wiki talkpage discussion (not counting your own talkpage)
- C: ...see an announcement on your own watchlist
- D: ...see an on-wiki noticeboard discussion
- E: ...see any off-wiki discussion (including IRC/chat, email/lists, facebook/twitter/blogs/reddit/youtube/similar, WP:BADSITES, phone/radio/television/newspapers/magazines/governmental/academia)
- F: ...follow ArbCom cases or enforcement before 2015
- G: ...follow ArbCom cases or enforcement during 2015
- H: ...personally comment in ArbCom case-pages before 2015
- I: ...personally comment in ArbCom case-pages during 2015
- J: ...pay attention to arbcom elections before 2015
- K: ...actually vote in arbcom elections before 2015
- L: ...pay attention to candidate statements
- M: ...pay attention to candidate question-pages
- N: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history in their first year as a wikipedian
- O: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history in the past couple of years leading up to the election
- P: ...pay attention to candidate contributions-history during the election-process
- Q: ...pay attention to voter-guides
- R: ...have personal interactions with at least one candidate before the election
- S: ...have personal interactions with at least five candidates before the election
- T: ...have personal interactions with at least ten candidates before the election
- U: ...have any other why/how/motivation rationale for your vote this year (please specify in your comments)
- Please list all that apply, in terms of being contrbuting-factors to your awareness of the election itself, and your knowledge of the candidates.
- ^ For example,
- A: discussions on the talkpages of articles which ARE subject to arbcom sanctions
- B: discussions on the talkpages of articles NOT subject to arbcom restrictions
- C: sending talkpage notifications e.g. with Twinkle, sticking to formal language
- D: sending talkpage notifications manually, and explaining with informal English
- E: working on policies/guidelines
- F: working on essays/helpdocs
- G: working on GA/FA/DYK/similar content
- H: working on copyedits/infoboxes/pictures/similar content
- I: working on categorization e.g. with HotCat
- J: working on autofixes e.g. with AWB or REFILL
- K: working with other Wikipedians via wikiprojects e.g. with MILHIST
- L: working with other Wikipedians via IRC e.g. with #wikipedia-en-help connect or informally
- M: working with other Wikipedians via email e.g. with UTRS or informally
- N: working with other Wikipedians in person e.g. at edit-a-thons / Wikipedian-in-residence / Wikimania / etc
- O: other types of contribution, please specify in your comments
- Please specify a comma-separated list of the types of contributions you see as positive indicators for arb-candidates to have, in order from most-positive-work to least-positive-but-still-valuable-work.
- ^ a b For example,
- A: AE, B: arbCases, C: LTA, D: OTRS, E: AN,
- F: OS/REVDEL, G: CU/SPI, H: AN/I, I: pageprot, J: NAC,
- K: RfC, L: RM, M: DRN, N: EA, O: 3o,
- P: NPOVN, Q: BLPN, R: RSN, S: NORN, T: FTN,
- U: teahouse, V: helpdesk, W: AfC, X: NPP, Y: AfD,
- 1: UAA, 2: COIN, 3: antiSpam, 4: AIV, 5: 3RR,
- 6: CCI, 7: NFCC, 8: abusefilter, 9: BAG, 0: VPT,
- Z: Other_noticeboard_not_listed_here_please_wikilink_your_answer
- Please specify a comma-separated list of the noticeboards you see as important background-experience for arb-candidates to have, in order from most-important-noticeboard to least-important-but-still-valuable-noticeboard.
How to respond
editThank you for your time, and thanks for all your work helping Wikipedia.
- To submit your answers via usertalk, click edit, fill in the blanks provided, and click save.
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