[Qgis-community-team] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] User question of the month

Tue Oct 15 07:59:59 PDT 2019

Hello all

Here are my initial interpretations. I’d be interested to see whether you agree or disagree:

Questions 1-4 (quantitative)

- 70%’s first-choice is Googling/StackExchange, which dwarfs the <20% choosing official docs

- the fact that Googling came top of search methods emphasizes that we need to pay attention to SEO in the official docs

- fewer than 50% find their answers in the official docs “often” or “always”, 45% answering “sometimes”

- official docs are underused – over 50% only consult monthly or less frequently (including “never”)

Question 5 (qualitative)

- many find the official docs too abstract, and would prefer examples worked in

- perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a lot of enthusiasm for video tutorials

- there is some criticism of the confusion of QGIS versions in the documentation, especially when deep-linked from a Google result

Does anything else leap out at you?

Thanks

Tom

From: Anita Graser [mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at]
Sent: 13 October 2019 13:22
To: qgis-community; DelazJ; Tom Chadwin
Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] User question of the month

Hi,

After running this questionnaire for two weeks, we stand at 824 responses and it's time to look at the responses.

Here's the timeline of incoming responses:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bpbpobi8ym5fyew/user_survey_documentation_responses.PNG?dl=0

And here are the answers to the questions:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8tknpjmuu9c5e7/user_survey_documentation_q1.PNG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cb5o632p2vdut38/user_survey_documentation_q2.PNG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rfmzijavnp9ptyj/user_survey_documentation_q3.PNG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5lpcbl6q6ta19i/user_survey_documentation_q4.PNG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hs50x83vls728p/user_survey_documentation_q5.PNG?dl=0

Finally, here's the CSV export of all answers, including the free text field:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nf7sdzyv4x2jsx0/QGIS%20Question%20of%20the%20Month%20%282019-09%29%20-%20all%20versions%20-%20English%20%28en%29%20-%202019-10-13-12-05-26.csv?dl=0

Usually, we publish the results in a follow-up blog post.

@Tom and Harrissou: May I ask you to write an interpretation of the results (including the free text answers) ?

Regards,
Anita

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:34 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Looks like the question hits a nerve, there are already over 90 answers.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:38 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
On request, I've added the option "QGIS Training Manual" to the first question. If you want to provide an updated translation for this item, please let me know when you've added it and I'll publish the change.

Regards,
Anita

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 9:53 AM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Here's the published form: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/single/::6Uro4EIq?returnUrl=https://qgis.org
Please give it a try and feel free to forward it.

Later today, I'll write the blog post and publish it on Twitter as well.

Regards,
Anita

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:03 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
I'll publish this weekend. We can let it run through October
http://anitagraser.com

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 13:27 Ismail Sunni <imajimatika at gmail.com<mailto:imajimatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Anita,

I am curious, when will the User Question of the Month be published in September? I just realized it's already the last week of September.

Thanks

Best regards.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 12:29 PM r.m.aguilardearchila at utwente.nl<mailto:r.m.aguilardearchila at utwente.nl> <r.m.aguilardearchila at utwente.nl<mailto:r.m.aguilardearchila at utwente.nl>> wrote:
Done for Spanish.
Gr,
Rosa

From: Qgis-community-team <qgis-community-team-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-community-team-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> On Behalf Of Alexandre Neto
Sent: 12 September 2019 12:11
To: Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>>
Cc: qgis-community <qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org>>; Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk<mailto:tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk>>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] User question of the month

Hi,

It's done for Portuguese

Thanks for putting it together,

Alex

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:29 AM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Everyone who sent me their user name should now have an invitation to edit. Alex already successfully added the Ukrainian translation. Please add yours.

Regards,
Anita

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Please create an account at https://kf.kobotoolbox.org<https://kf.kobotoolbox.org/>  and send me your user name so I can give you editing rights.

Regards,
Anita

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:53 PM Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com<mailto:senhor.neto at gmail.com>> wrote:
This is a very long thread, can you please re-share the link for translations?

Thanks

A terça, 10/09/2019, 21:31, Ismail Sunni <imajimatika at gmail.com<mailto:imajimatika at gmail.com>> escreveu:
Hi Anita,

I am interested to translate it to Bahasa Indonesia.

Hopefully, there will be more people answering the user question of the month, especially from Indonesia.

Best regards

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 19:35 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Hi,

This is a call for translators!

I've set up the questionnaire with Harrissou's questions on Kobotoolbox. If you want to localize the questions, let me know and I'll give you editing rights.

The questionnaire will be published on Sunday.

Regards,
Anita

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:58 AM DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com<mailto:delazj at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Anita,
Based on the earlier discussion, this is what I end up with (I rearrange the questions):

1. What is your first source of information on how to use QGIS features or solve problems?
- QGIS User Manual, Stack Exchange, QGIS mailing lists, a regional forum,
search engine, social network, other

2. On average, how often do you try to find information on QGIS features or solve problems?
- daily, 2-3 times per week, once per week, 2-3 times per month, monthly,
less often, never

3. If/when you use the official QGIS documentation to learn how to use QGIS features or solve problems, does it answer your
needs?
-always, often, sometimes, rarely, never, I don't use the official
documentation

4. On average, how often do you use the official QGIS documentation to find information on QGIS features or solve problems?
- daily, 2-3 times per week, once per week, 2-3 times per month, monthly,
less often, never
(selecting "I don't use the official documentation" in question 3 would hide this question)

5. Suggestions for improvements or other comments on the official QGIS documentation:
- textarea

Thanks,
Harrissou

Le jeu. 29 août 2019 à 13:55, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> a écrit :
Since this topic has come up again on a different thread (and we should soon have a better way to distribute links to our questionnaires) I'd like to encourage you to send me the questions you'd like to run.

Regards,
Anita

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 8:54 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at<mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
Hi Tom and Harrissou,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:05 PM Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk<mailto:tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk>> wrote:
Better, I think, repeating that change across to the other questions using
the same phrase.

If you finalize the questions, we could run them this month.

Regards,
Anita

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