Welcome to our first Survey Sunday, where you will find a list of all questions asked in the OTW Community Survey. We introduced the idea in our previous post: we cannot release raw survey data to the public, but still want to give you the opportunity to interrogate that data. So from now through December, you can ask us questions relating to survey, and we’ll try and dig up the answers.
The idea behind of posting this overview of all questions is that it enables you to ask combinations. A very conservative example: by cross-referencing questions #35 and #36 you get “Do people without prior wiki experience have trouble creating Fanlore articles?”
However, before you dig into the questions, please read our fine print so you know what to expect in terms of results:
- Some results may be preliminary, due to the text answers not yet being included in the overall results (we will specify when this is the case).
- We may already be planning to answer the inquiry in an upcoming update post: in that case we will let you know once it goes up.
- Depending upon the volume of requests, we can’t guarantee an answer within the two week period before the next Survey Sunday.
- Depending upon which questions are being cross-tabulated, we may not be able to come up with a clear response.
And since we are still just starting to go through data, we may have to add to the above disclaimers as we go along and figure out what we can and can’t do.
A note on survey structure, or: “why didn’t I see question X when I took the survey?”
The survey used a ton of conditional questions – different answers led down different paths – so no-one saw the entirety of the survey. Conditional questions allowed respondents to skip anything irrelevant: if you tickied “Never heard of Fanlore”, you didn’t get any Fanlore questions but jumped straight to the “Fan Video project” section.
Another example: people who answered “Yes, I am an OTW member” weren’t directed to “Have you ever donated to the OTW?”, because becoming a member requires donating. Only non-members were asked if they ever donated.
Where to send your inquiries
We would like to ask for your queries and comments to be made at our website posts (no account needed) which you’ll be able to find through https://transformativeworks.org/news-topic-tags/otw-sections/survey-research. We realize that people read OTW News through other sites and sources as well, but at the moment we cannot guarantee that we will see and answer your comment elsewhere due to technical constraints.
Our list of questions is below. We’re looking forward to your queries!
OTW Community Survey: List of questions
The questions are listed in their order of appearance, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect the way you took the survey because of the skip logic explained above.
The question types are either closed questions (yes/no or pre-defined answers), write-in fields (short replies), or boxes (essay-style replies). Basically, this means that closed questions will be easiest, and text boxes will take the longest to evaluate.
- What country/countries do you consider your home?
type: write-in field - What is/are your native language/s?
write-in field - What language/s do you use in fannish or fandom contexts?
write-in field - Do you consider yourself fannish / a fan?
closed question - Where do you spend most of your fannish time?
three write-in fields - If you consider yourself a member of fandom: how long have you been “in fandom”?
numerical write-in field - Do you consume (watch, play, read…) fanworks?
closed question + write-in field - Do you create fanworks?
closed question + write-in field - What general fannish community/communities, if any, do you feel part of?
text box - Have you ever used the Archive of Our Own (AO3)?
closed question - Do you have an account at the Archive of Our Own?
closed question - How efficient do you find the Archive’s invitation system (invite queue or sending invites)?
closed question - What are you using the Archive for?
closed question + write-in field - Have you ever used the Archive’s search function?
closed question - How useful do you find the Archive’s tagging system?
closed question - How efficient is it to search and find works on the Archive?
closed question - Did you find content in your fandom(s) on the Archive?
closed question - Do you leave Kudos on works you like?
closed question - Do you leave comments on works you like?
closed question - How easy is it to leave comments?
closed question - What are your reasons for not commenting on the Archive specifically?
text box - How easy do you find it to create bookmarks on the Archive?
closed question - How easy do you find it to use bookmarks on the Archive?
closed question - How easy do you find it to post works to the Archive?
closed question - How would you rate the ease-of-use of running a challenge?
closed question - How would you rate the ease-of-use of participating in a challenge?
closed question - Have you used the collections feature of the Archive?
closed question - How easy do you find it to sort and find works within the collections?
closed question - How easy do you find it to set up and maintain a collection?
closed question - How do you like the look and feel of the Archive?
closed question - How would you, personally, describe the Archive’s atmosphere?
text box - What is your favorite thing about the Archive, if any?
text box - If you could change one thing about the Archive, what would it be?
text box - Have you ever used the Fanlore Wiki?
closed question - Do you have any wiki experience apart from Fanlore?
closed question - How easy did you find creating or adding to articles on Fanlore initially?
closed question - How comfortable do you feel adding content to Fanlore, in general?
closed question - How comfortable do you feel expanding or correcting content created by others?
closed question - If you have ever looked for content about your fandom(s) or your fannish culture on Fanlore: Did you find that content?
closed question - When you are browsing Fanlore, which of the following navigation methods do you use?
closed question + write-in field - How easy do you find searching and navigating Fanlore, in general?
closed question - Are you clear on what kind of content is welcome on Fanlore?
closed question - Have you ever needed assistance on Fanlore?
closed question + write-in field - How useful did you find the help pages/tutorials?
closed question - How easy do you find asking for assistance on Fanlore?
closed question - How do you like the look and feel of Fanlore?
closed question - What is your impression of the atmosphere on Fanlore?
text box - What is your favorite thing about Fanlore, if any?
text box - If you could change one thing about Fanlore, what would it be?
text box - Are you aware of the OTW’s fan video projects?
closed question - Which ones have you heard of?
closed question + write-in field - How useful did you find these resources?
closed question - Why were the resources not useful to you? How could we improve them?
text box - Have you ever read Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) or its affiliated Symposium blog?
closed question - If you have considered submitting an essay to TWC’s Symposium section, or the Symposium blog, but hesitated to do so: What are your reasons?
closed question+ write-in field - Have you ever received a cease and desist letter, or had a fanwork removed from a site for intellectual property infringement?
closed question - Are you aware of the OTW’s legal advocacy work?
closed question - This is a list of Legal Advocacy’s contributions. Which ones have you heard of?
closed question + write-in field - Do you feel that the OTW’s legal advocacy had an impact on your fannish practice or your attitude towards the legality of fanworks?
closed question - How has the OTW’s legal advocacy work affected your fannish practice?
(e.g. are you more/less confident, have you adopted terminology…)
text box - How would you describe your previous attitude?
closed question - How would you describe your current attitude?
closed question - Are you interested in the preservation of at-risk fanworks and fannish projects?
closed question - Are you aware of the option to “orphan” a fanwork on the Archive of Our Own?
closed question - Have you designated someone as your “fannish next of kin” using the OTW’s process?
closed question - How easy did you find completing the “fannish next of kin” process?
closed question - In the event that you could not maintain your fanzine collection any longer, would you consider donating it to the Fan Culture Preservation Project?
closed question - Are you the maintainer of a fannish community web site, a fannish resource web site, or an archive?
closed question - If you were unable to continue to maintain or preserve your site, would you consider asking Open Doors to help you preserve the site’s content and history?
closed question + write-in field - Have you ever been an OTW member?
closed question - How long have you been a member?
closed question - What was your main reason for becoming a member?
closed question + write-in field - What made you stop being a member?
closed question + write-in field - What might make you choose to be a member in the future?
closed question + write-in field - Have you ever donated to the OTW?
closed question - How easy did you find the donation process?
closed question - How did you first hear about the OTW?
closed question - I first heard of the OTW by way of this project:
closed question - The OTW hosts the following projects under its umbrella:
closed question - Which OTW projects are most important to you?
closed question - The OTW is represented on a variety of communication platforms. Which of these OTW online outlets have you read or heard of?
closed question + write-in field - We post the following types of content to our OTW online outlets. Which ones are you interested in, generally speaking?
closed question - What type of content would you like to see (more of) on the OTW online outlets?
text box - Have you read the OTW website (transformativeworks.org) before?
closed question - Based on your previous visits to the OTW website (transformativeworks.org), how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
The OTW website made it easy to find the information I was looking for / The OTW website is easy to navigate. / The OTW website met my expectations as a user.
closed question - What should we improve about the website, in your opinion?
text box - What information would you expect to find on the OTW website that’s not currently there?
text box - Do you have any other feedback about the OTW website?
text box - Anything else you’d like to tell us?
text box