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Hello. Thank you for the message on my talk page inviting me to participate in a survey. Unfortunately I have no recollection of taking part in that community discussion, although it's entirely possible that I did and have forgotten about it. If you could provide me with a link to the page where I took part in the community discussion, it would be very helpful. Best wishes, --Viennese Waltz 11:17, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Viennese Waltz. It looks like your edit was this. We auto-generated the list of who participated, so there was no evaluation of how minor or major an edit was. It looks like yours was a revert. Please feel free to contribute to the survey or not, whatever is most comfortable for you. Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 11:34, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that was a banned user whose posts are reverted on sight. --Viennese Waltz 12:10, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

• I didn't participate because it seemed to me that WMF had overreached itself to such a ridiculous extent in the Fram affair that it lost all credibility. Why would I bother giving my opinion to an organisation that can demonstrate such lack of judgement? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:00, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

• I see you've received the note on your talk page as well inviting you to participate in the survey. That is the correct place to express your (clearly strongly held) views on the matter, not on this user's talk page. --Viennese Waltz 12:12, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

• I did that first. But that has no transparency. Which is ironic. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:07, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

It's a confidential survey, which is kind of the point. I don't really care what your views on this matter are, I'm just saying that this user's talk page is not the place to air them. --Viennese Waltz 13:19, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

That's OK. I don't mind that you think that way. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:15, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation to take the survey.

(I'm responding here to your talk page message rather than taking the survey because the survey is hosted by Google: I generally refuse to use proprietary or commercial Web services — Google especially, mostly because of their near-monopoly position in a few areas — and there's no practical barrier to running a Web survey using free/libre software.)

The primary reason I did not comment on the community consultation was that I did not feel there was much I could add beyond what I wrote here and here on the incident that precipitated it (in a nutshell: whether the WMF's handling of the situation was appropriate could only be assessed by the WMF because nonpublic information was involved; there is at least some argument to be made that WMF could have communicated their actions better, although I'm undecided whether I agree with that; and I would not be opposed to having an ombuds commission of some sort to which to appeal WMF decisions).

I hope this helps. Thanks! —{{u|Goldenshimmer}} (they/their)｜Talk｜Contributions 23:13, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Your talk page archives

This talk page has a redlink to User talk:Kbrown (WMF)/Archive 1, but the only archive I can find is at User talk:Kbrown (WMF)/Archive 26. You may wish to fix this. DuncanHill (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that, DuncanHill! I bet I copied the template from another page and didn't reset the counter when I did it. I've moved the /26 archive to /1 and hopefully it should pick up auto-archiving from there. Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 15:41, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Survey results

Will the results be publicly disclosed, after necessary sanitisation (to protect individual privacy)? ∯WBG 17:13, 13 November 2019 (UTC)