2024 Community Survey Results

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Each year, WL staff runs a community survey to get a better idea of our audience and the demographics that we serve. We missed last year's - 2023 - hence the jump to 2024. These are the detailed results of that survey — there were two fill-in forms for specific complaints/suggestions about the site and staff that we will not be publicly releasing, but rest assured we are definitely taking them into consideration. Anyway, the Wanderers' Library 2024 Community Survey Results!

Note: Fill-in form answers with a number of results less than 1% each have been collated under "Various others".

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1. What is your age?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Under 15	1	1.5%	10.2%
15-19	26	38.2%	50.4%
20-29	31	45.6%	30.5%
30-39	7	10.3%	4.9%
40-49	3	4.4%	2%
50+	0	0%	2%

2. What gender do you identify as?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Male	34	49.3%	57.9%
Female	18	26.1%	11.7%
Non-binary	7	10.1%	10.9%
Genderfluid	2	2.9%	7.7%
Agender	3	4.3%	5.3%
Various others	2	2.9%	1.6%
Prefer not to say	3	4.3%	4.9%

3. Are you a member of our sister site, the SCP Wiki?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Yes	47	69.1%	68.8%
No	21	30.9%	31.2%

4. Are you a member of any of our international branches? If so, which?

65 responses

Option	Amount	Percent
WL-PL	1	1.5%
WL-RU	1	1.5%
Not a member of any international WL branches	63	96.9%

5. What is your primary language?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
English	56	81.2%	73.5%
Spanish	3	4.3%	4.1%
Polish	2	2.9%	2.9%
German	1	1.4%
Italian	1	1.4%
Russian	1	1.4%
Portuguese	1	1.4%
Romanian	1	1.4%
Norwegian	1	1.4%
Hindi	1	1.4%
Marathi	1	1.4%

6. Do you believe the Wanderer's Library and SCP Wiki should be closer together in operation and management?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent
Yes, they should be closer together	17	25%
No, they should not be closer together.	29	42.6%
No strong opinion / don't know enough to say.	22	32.4%

7. Where did you hear about the Wanderers' Library?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
The SCP Wiki	58	85.3%	83.5%
Various others	10	14.7%	6%

8. How often do you visit the Library?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Every day or multiple times a day	20	29.4%	18.6%
Once every 2-3 days	13	19.1%	24.8%
Once a week	13	19.1%	24.8%
Once a month	14	20.6%	16.1%
Once every 3-6 months	5	7.4%	7%
Less than once every 6 months	3	4.4%	8.7%

9. What do you do on the Wanderers' Library?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Read articles	68	100%	96.7%
Vote on articles	41	60.3%	41%
Write articles	34	50%	28.3%
Comment on articles	26	38.2%	20.9%
Translate articles	2	2.9%	5.3%
Engage in chat	30	44.1%	17.6%

10. Do you engage with the Library offsite? If so, where?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Twitter	20	29%	19.8%
Discord	44	63.8%	40.9%
Reddit	7	10.1%	12%
Tumblr	12	17.4%	N/A%
TVTropes	3	4.3%%	3.7%
I do not engage with the Library offsite	11	15.9%	43%
Various others	4	5.6%	2.8%

11. If you dislike things about the site, which category would they best fit into?

38 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Site navigation	15	39.5%	52.3%
Theme and visuals	5	13.2%	16.2%
Voting system	11	28.9%	13.5%
Article content	4	10.5%	12.6%
Hosting	18	47.4%	18%
Community engagement	7	18.4%	13.5%

12. How well do you think Library staff are doing their jobs?

68 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
1 (Horrible)	0	0%	0.8%
2 (Poorly)	0	0%	0%
3 (Okay)	9	13.2%	11.9%
4 (Good)	26	38.2%	53.4%
5 (Fantastic)	33	48.5%	33.9%

13. Do you think the Library has improved since last year?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent	Last Year Percent
Yes.	35	50.7%	49.8%
No.	1	1.4%	2.1%
No strong opinion / don't know enough to say.	33	47.8%	49.2%

14. Other than the Wanderer's Library, where else do you read fiction?

69 responses

Note: This question got changed mid survey release, so some data points may be off as users had to change their responses.

Option	Amount	Percent
Short Story Journals/Literary Magazines	23	33.3%
Novels/Novellas	54	78.3%
Fanfiction	26	37.7%
Comics/Mangas/Graphic Novels	30	43.5%
Webcomics	31	14.5%
Online Collaborative Fiction other than WL/SCP	10	14.5%
Non-Collaborative Online Fiction	11	15.9%
ARGs (Alternate Reality Games)	20	29%
Screenplays	6	8.7%
Personal Blogs	9	13%

15. What are your favorite genres to read?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent
Romance	8	11.6%
Action-Adventure	25	36.2%
Mystery	27	39.1%
Fantasy	49	71%
Sci-Fi	55	79.7%
Horror	38	55.1%
Historical	25	36.2%
Thriller/Suspense	22	31.9%
Non-Fiction	22	31.9%
Realistic	17	24.6%
Literary	11	15.9%
Various Others	4	5.6%

16. Would you like to see more non-fiction works on the site, either through essays or historically oriented pieces?

69 responses

Option	Amount	Percent
Yes	33	47.8%
No.	7	10.1%
No strong opinion / don't know enough to say.	29	42%

17. Should the Wanderer's Library look into allowing and adding support for singular art posts?

67 responses

Option	Amount	Percent
Yes	37	55.2%
No.	5	7.5%
No strong opinion / don't know enough to say.	25	37.3%

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A very big and sincere thank you from staff to all those who participated. We have a way better image of the WL Community as it stands now, and plan to make the appropriate changes to address that. Hope to see you again next year!

— WL Staff

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