Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution Improvement Project/June report

Hi all! I thought it was time I provided an update on my work so far, so the community has an understanding of what I've been doing and what I've learned, along with what I am currently working on and my plans for the future.

Early results of the survey

Over the past month, I have been working on compiling the results of the dispute resolution survey that was offered in April 2012, and preparing these results for the community.

The purpose of this survey was to get Wikipedians, in their own words, to explain how they felt about dispute resolution on the English Wikipedia and their experiences with it. Demographic information and feedback on the processes was gathered, as well as first-hand accounts of their experiences. The respondents have detailed processes that they think are effective, but also highlighted issues that they have experienced that made things difficult. The survey was offered to members of the community based on their activity within dispute resolution - editors who had more than ten edits to a range of dispute resolution forums in the period of February 2010 – February 2012, that were not indefinitely blocked, and the purpose of the survey was

1952 users were eligible to take the survey, and it was offered to the top 1060 active editors (1100 originally, however 40 were blocked). The survey received 238 valid responses (a response rate of just over 22%)