Developer Satisfaction Survey/2023/Open source
📖 Developer Satisfaction 2023
The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community.
🌍 Open source
edit🔗 Perception of Wikimedia Foundation support of open source
We asked survey takers their view of the amount of money, time, and effort Wikimedia spends supporting the open source ecosystem.
- The majority (57%) of respondents said the amount provided is too little
- 21% said the amount provided is "about right"
- 20% were unsure
- 3% said the amount provided is too much
🔗 Perception of Wikimedia Foundation as an upstream
We asked survey takers, “What is your perception of Wikimedia as a free and open source software upstream?”
- The majority (71%) of respondents said that Wikimedia is a supportive ecosystem
- 16% were unsure
- 13% said that Wikimedia is not a supportive ecosystem
🔗 Perception of Wikimedia Foundation's contributions to third-party projects
We asked survey takers their view of Wikimedia’s contribution to third-party projects.
- 58% of respondents said that Wikimedia makes minor or major contributions to third-party projects
- 31% were unsure
- 11% said Wikimedia makes no contribution to third-party projects
🔗 Puzzles in this section
One respondent raised challenges or problems with this section.
💬 What is meant by "the open source ecosystem" exactly? The open source ecosystem around the core WMF hosted wiki projects, the whole open source ecosystem around open data, or the open source ecosystem as a whole (e.g. other non-wikimedia open source hardware and software projects)?