Community Engagement Insights/2016-17 Report/Question 239-ED06

Editing activities

Question 239 (ED06)

Activity 1 of 11:

Editing pages using the standard wikitext and visual editors (e.g. adding or removing text; inserting headings, citations, and images)

How important is this activity in your contributions to Wikimedia projects?

Participants (n) = 3239

margin of error = n/a

Median = 5

Very active and active editors differ

4% selected "No opinion" ^[?]

1 – 0 Not at all important (4%)

2 – 1 Slightly important (7%)

3 – 2 Fairly important (13%)

4 – 3 Quite important (20%)

5 – 4 Essential (57%)

77% of sampled editors who participated in the survey feel that editing pages using the standard wikitext and visual editors is quite important or essential.

Statistics

Response statistics	Value
Total participants^[?]	3380 (100%)
Answered question^[?]	3361 (99%)
Skipped question^[?]	19 (1%)
Dropped out^[?]	(not available)
Selected not applicable^[?]	not an option
Participants in graph (n)^[?]	3239 (96%)
Margin of error^[?]	n/a

Descriptive statistics	Value
Normal distribution^[?]	No
Mean^[?]	4.18
Median^[?]	5
Mode'^[?]	5
Standard deviation^[?]	1.14
Interquartile range^[?]	1