IFD 10th Anniversary Survey Report

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2024-03-29 16:23:37 UTC

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The OTW launched a user survey as part of the International Fanworks Day's 10th annual celebration. It was launched on February 9th and closed on February 19th. The survey, which asked 12 questions, was offered in 25 languages and was started by 55,620 people.

This survey report covers the following:

1) How many responses there were to each question
2) How many people gave which answers.

Below is an example from the report:

Q8: Have you ever used AO3 bookmarks to rec a fanwork?

50,591 survey takers answered this question.

Bar graph with numbers as shown below

Yes – 36,026 (71.37%)
No – 14,565 (28.63%)

Visit this link to access the rest of the survey responses.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

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Spacecadetcraig Fri 29 Mar 2024 05:09PM UTC

Hey bookie 😏 I have

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QuinLova Fri 29 Mar 2024 05:51PM UTC

Neat!

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taconite101 Sat 30 Mar 2024 12:51AM UTC

Cool beans

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ThatWildWolf Sat 30 Mar 2024 01:46AM UTC

To be fair re: language, I would assume that many people (myself included) saw the survey was available in their native language and still chose to take it in English anyway. So I wouldn't say those results are only about the English speaking part of fandom. It's just that people prefer to take surveys in English. A translated question often leads to a different answer and eventually a different result, a good example of this is MBTI test.

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1. HerdOfTurtles Sat 30 Mar 2024 06:24AM UTC
  
  second this
  
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2. Numeri Sat 30 Mar 2024 11:19PM UTC
  
  True. I use ao3 in english as default but i'm not actually a native eniglsh speaker so maybe they could include in their surveys whether someone is actually natlve or not (and if not what their native language is). Especially since I think we are not alone in our usage behaviour haha
  
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3. 1. honilee Tue 02 Apr 2024 05:43AM UTC
    
    Along with your suggestion, I'd also like a multiple-choice question about which languages someone uses for fan activities: hopefully this would help show the most accurate picture a survey like this could of users' language use when interacting with this platform and with other parts of fandom since someone could primarily use a language other than their native one or English, despite taking the survey in English.
    
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4. farista55555 Wed 03 Apr 2024 05:03AM UTC
  
  true im indonesian and i would rather take the survey in english
  
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5. Luna_Chase Thu 04 Apr 2024 09:54AM UTC
  
  Yeah, I also took the survey in English even though it is not my mothertongue.
  
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honilee Tue 02 Apr 2024 05:47AM UTC

I've been looking forward to reading the results of this survey -- thank you to those who worked on creating the survey and this subsequent report. I hope that the OTW finds this information helpful and is able to put it to use in furthering the goals of the organization.

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Ihni Tue 02 Apr 2024 07:35PM UTC

Interesting, and fun to see all those numbers!

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StarReacher Tue 02 Apr 2024 11:13PM UTC

Very interesting🤔

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naveda4777 Sat 06 Apr 2024 03:24AM UTC

Such pretty charts

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