Developer Satisfaction Survey/2023/Demographics

๐Ÿ“–ย Developer Satisfaction 2023

The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community.

๐Ÿ‘ฅย Demographics

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๐Ÿ”— Roles

# Role Responses Percent
WMF staff only 61 45.9%
Volunteer only 37 27.8%
WMF staff and volunteer 18 13.5%
Affiliate staff only 6 4.5%
Affiliate & volunteer 6 4.5%
WMF staff, affiliate staff, and volunteer 2 1.5%
Others (not WMF staff, nor volunteer, nor affiliate staff) 3 2.3%
Grand Total 133 100%

As part of processing, we manually removed 65 responses where:

  • The answers appeared to be non-good faith (e.g., all open-text responses were keysmash: lasdjflkdsa) (n=56)
  • The respondent indicated that they are not a developer (n=9), or
  • Survey responses were incomplete.

๐Ÿ”— Functional roles

We asked survey takers, โ€œWhat are your current functional role(s) in the Wikimedia developer community?โ€

Roles are not mutually exclusive. Respondents were able to select multiple functional roles.

# Role Responses Percent
SRE infra 13 10%
MediaWiki Core and MediaWiki Extension Developers 12 9%
Gadget dev 8 6%
MediaWiki Extension Developer 7 5%
Other functional role 6 4.5%
Service/API Developer 5 4%
MediaWiki Extension, Tool, & Gadget Developers 5 4%
MediaWiki Core, Extensions, & Tool Gadget Developers 5 4%
MediaWiki Core, Extensions, & API Developers 5 4%
Tool & Gadget Developers 4 3%
Other combinations of roles 63 47%
Grand Total 133 100%

๐Ÿ”— Common role pairings

The most common role pairing was MediaWiki Extension developer + MediaWiki Core developer.

Additional common pairings included:

  • tool developer + MediaWiki Extension developer,
  • tool developer + gadget developer, and
  • MediaWiki Extension developer + gadget developer.

๐Ÿ”— Tenure

We asked survey takers, โ€œFor how many years have you been involved in the Wikimedia developer community in any role?โ€

The majority of respondents had 10 or fewer years of tenure.

About one fifth of respondents had 1 year of involvement or less.

๐Ÿ”— Tenureร—Functional roles

We compared functional roles between two tenure buckets:

  1. respondents with 0-3 years tenure
  2. respondents with 4+ years tenure

The group of respondents with 0-3 years tenure had higher percentages of gadget developers and data engineers.

The group of respondents with 4+ years tenure had higher percentages of MediaWiki Extension developers, MediaWiki Core developers, tool developers, SRE infrastructure developers, and test engineers.

Both groups had roughly the same percentage of respondents in each bucket indicated being Service/API developers.

๐Ÿ”— Gender

We asked survey takers, โ€œHow would you describe your gender identity?โ€ Categories were not mutually exclusive. Respondents were able to select multiple gender identities if applicable.

Of those who answered the question:

  • the majority (70%) identified as man or male
  • 10.5% identified as woman or female
  • 6% identified as nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or transgender
  • 13% said they preferred not to provide their gender identity.

๐Ÿ”— Language

We asked survey takers, โ€œIs English your first or primary language?โ€

The majority of respondents indicated that English is not their first or primary language.