2019 survey data

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Welcome to the results of the official SCP Foundation Wiki 2019 Community Survey results! We'd like to thank everyone for participating. It's always amazing to see just how many people submit responses, and it's wonderful to know how many people enjoy the wiki and the SCP fandom as a whole. This year, we had a total of 11,096 responses, which is 5,640 more responses than last year. As always, this feedback will help us to improve the site and make it a better experience for everyone.

With the state of the world right now, we hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. Thank you for being part of the SCP experience, be it as a reader, writer, or fan.

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The Results

Note: Some polled areas may not add up to 100%. This is due to rounding and the fact that some questions are multiple-choice in nature. As well, while some areas are ranked in a range from the highest percentage to the lowest percentage, others are not; this is done to ensure a more intuitive showing of results, depending on the area.

1. What is your age?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
<15	1842	16.60%	11.1%
15-19	5340	48.13%	50.3%
20-24	1937	17.46%	21.4%
25-29	645	5.81%	8.7%
30-34	305	2.75%	4.3%
35-39	134	1.21%	1.9%
40-49	89	0.80%	1.7%
50-59	24	0.22%	0.3
60+	17	0.15%	0.3%
Prefer not to say	778	7.01%	N/A

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2. What is your gender?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
Cisgender Woman	932	8.40%	10.6%
Cisgender Man	7841	70.67%	81.2%
Transgender Woman	272	2.45%	N/A
Transgender Man	166	1.50%	N/A
Non-binary	366	3.30%	1.9%
Genderfluid	182	1.64%	1.6%
Agender	110	0.99%	1.1%
Other	263	2.37%	1.0%
Prefer not to say	963	8.68%	N/A

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3. What is your primary language?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
Afrikaans	12	0.11%	.1%
American Sign Language	23	0.21%	0.2%
Arabic	55	0.50%	0.4%
Armenian	31	0.28%	0.1%
Bahasa Indonesian	0	0.00%	0.2%
Bulgarian	23	0.21%	0.1%
Catalan	10	0.09%	0.3%
Chinese (Cantonese)	27	0.24%	0.3%
Chinese (Mandarin)	55	0.50%	0.6%
Chinese (Shanghainese)	4	0.04%	0.1%
Chinese (other dialect)	3	0.03%	N/A
Croatian	26	0.23	0.3%
Czech	54	0.49%	0.5%
Danish	79	0.71%	0.8%
Dutch	132	1.19%	1.1%
English	7877	70.99%	71.0%
Estonian	17	0.15%	0.3%
Filipino	53	0.48%	0.5%
Finnish	71	0.64%	0.6%
French	252	2.27%	2.7%
German	285	2.57%	3.0%
Greek	25	0.23%	0.3%
Hebrew	34	0.31%	0.3%
Hungarian	49	0.44%	0.5%
Italian	106	0.96%	1.1%
Japanese	29	0.26%	0.3%
Korean	22	0.20%	0.5%
Latvian	14	0.13%	0.1%
Lithuanian	15	0.14%	0.2%
Malay	10	0.09%	0.2%
Marathi	4	0.04%	N/A
Norwegian	60	0.54%	0.4%
Polish	151	1.36%	2.5%
Portuguese	191	1.72%	2.3%
Romanian	61	0.55%	0.7%
Russian	429	3.87%	0.7%
Serbian	32	0.29%	0.3%
Slovak	19	0.17%	0.1%
Slovene	11	0.10	0.1%
Spanish	369	3.33%	3.1%
Tagalog	7	0.06%	0.1%
Thai	16	0.14%	0.2%
Turkish	55	0.50%	0.5%
Ukranian	25	0.23%	0.1%
Vietnamese	49	0.44%	0.5%
Other	189	1.70%	1.8%
Skipped	0	0.00%	N/A

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4. What country are you from?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
Argentina	68	0.61%	0.5%
Australia	375	3.38%	2.8%
Austria	47	0.42%	0.4%
Belarus	14	0.13%	0.0%
Belgium	46	0.41%	0.3%
Bolivia	4	0.04%	0.0%
Brazil	161	1.45%	2.0%
Bulgaria	24	0.22%	0.2%
Canada	641	5.78%	6.0%
Chile	55	0.50%	0.6%
China	36	0.32%	0.3%
Colombia	27	0.24%	0.2%
Costa Rica	14	0.13%	0.1%
Croatia	28	0.25%	0.3%
Czech Republic	56	0.50%	0.5%
Denmark	84	0.76%	0.8%
Ecuador	7	0.06%	0.0%
El Salvador	6	0.05%	0.1%
England	567	5.11%	4.7%
Estonia	18	0.16%	0.3%
Finland	79	0.71%	0.7%
France	169	1.52%	2.1%
Germany	263	2.37%	2.7%
Greece	24	0.22%	0.3%
Hong Kong	29	0.26%	0.3%
Hungary	47	0.42%	0.4%
India	37	0.33%	0.3%
Indonesia	49	0.44%	0.3%
Iraq	4	0.04%	0.0%
Ireland (Northern Ireland)	21	0.19%	0.2%
Ireland (Republic of Ireland)	60	0.54%	0.5%
Israel	38	0.34%	0.0%
Italy	102	0.92%	1.1%
Japan	42	0.38%	0.3%
Latvia	16	0.14%	0.1%
Lithuania	17	0.15%	0.2%
Malaysia	37	0.33%	0.5%
Mexico	104	0.94%	0.8%
Netherlands	120	1.08%	0.9%
New Zealand	77	0.69%	0.7%
Norway	65	0.59%	0.4%
Pakistan	8	0.07%	0.0%
Peru	21	0.19%	0.1%
Philippines	110	0.99%	0.8%
Poland	141	1.27%	2.4%
Portugal	41	0.37%	0.3%
Puerto Rico	11	0.10%	0.1%
Romania	64	0.58%	0.7%
Russia	368	3.32%	0.4%
Scotland	74	0.67%	0.8%
Serbia	29	0.26%	0.3%
Singapore	43	0.39%	0.6%
Slovakia	17	0.15%	0.2%
Slovenia	12	0.11%	0.1%
South Africa	17	0.15%	0.3%
South Korea	20	0.18%	0.4%
Spain	73	0.66%	0.6%
Sri Lanka	1	0.01%	0.0%
Sudan	1	0.01%	0.0%
Sweden	106	0.96%	1.4%
Switzerland	35	0.32%	0.4%
Taiwan	7	0.06%	0.1%
Thailand	18	0.16%	0.3%
Turkey	52	0.47%	0.5%
Ukraine	39	0.35%	0.2%
United States of America	5615	50.60%	51.6%
Venezuela	0	0.00%	0.0%
Vietnam	58	0.52%	0.7%
Wales	45	0.41%	0.3%
Other	244	2.20%	3.4%
Skipped	137	1.23%	N/A

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5. Do you have a registered account on the wiki?

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Response	# of Responses	%
Yes	4078	36.75%
No	6975	62.86%
Skipped	42	0.38%

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6. What official SCP social media do you regularly check/follow?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
Official Subreddit (www.reddit.com/r/scp)	6456	58.18%	56.6%
Official Twitter Account (www.twitter.com/scpwiki)	2017	18.18%	14.2%
Official Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/scpfoundationi OR www.facebook.com/scpfoundation)	738	6.65%	5.2%
Official Tumblr Account (scp-wiki-official.tumblr.com/)	786	7.08%	8.6%
Official DeviantArt Group (scp-foundation.deviantart.com/)	484	4.36%	3.7%
Official Instagram Account (www.instagram.com/scpfoundationwiki/)	1216	10.96%	8.1%
Official SCP-INT Discord	906	8.17%	6.5%
Official Discord for any other foreign language branch	598	5.39%	3.9%
Skipped	2914	26.26%	19.8%

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7. How do you feel Staff do with their job of running and maintaining the wiki?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

1=Extremely Dissatisfied, 5=Extremely Satisfied	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
1	99	0.89%	1.5%
2	261	2.35%	3.0%
3	1643	14.81%	17.4%
4	4048	36.48%	41.7%
5	3804	34.28%	32.8%
Skipped	1240	11.18%	3.5%

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8. Which of the official SCP wikis¹ do you use?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
English Wiki (The original)	10682	96.27%	97.1%
SCP-INT (International Translation Archive)	1489	13.42%	11.8%
Chinese Wiki	121	1.09%	1.1%
German Wiki	219	1.97%	1.4%
French Wiki	287	2.59%	2.8%
Italian Wiki	119	1.07%	0.9%
Korean Wiki	64	0.58%	0.6%
Polish Wiki	134	1.21%	2.1%
Japanese Wiki	184	1.66%	1.4%
Russian Wiki	557	5.02%	1.2%
Spanish Wiki	265	2.39%	1.8%
Thai Wiki	49	0.44%	0.3%
Other	448	4.04%	2.5%

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9. If you think something(s) about the wiki can be improved what category does it fall under?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
The theme/color scheme/visual elements	3647	32.87%	18.9%
The host site/wikidot itself	1783	16.07%	11.3%
The layout and listing methods (how to find articles, etc.)	3421	30.83%	20.3%
The author listing method	1215	10.95%	6.7%
The voting system/I want x/10 or x/5 ratings other than low/high number ratings	1042	9.39%	7.7%
I hold issue with article content (Gore, violence, adult content, etc)	208	1.87%	1.5%
I think the age limit for joining the site should be lowered.	1286	11.59%	9.1%
I think the age limit for joining the site should be raised.	874	7.88%	8.7%
Skipped	3328	29.99%	38.9%

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10. What do you do on the SCP wiki?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
Read articles on this wiki	10809	97.41%	98.8%
Write articles for this wiki	669	6.03%	6.7%
Vote on articles you read	2200	19.83%	21.3%
Comment on articles	717	6.46%	6.7%
Comment on general forums/non-page specific forums or threads	434	3.91%	4.7%
Provide critique or feedback to articles and drafts	429	3.87%	4.5%
Attend the official Seminars and Workshops	138	1.24%	N/A
Translate articles from one wiki to other language wikis or the INT Archives.	194	1.75%	1.9%
Create and post other kind of content, such as artwork, music, etc	418	3.77%	3.1%
Chat in the official chatroom of the wiki, #site19	461	4.15%	6.6%
Other	1266	11.41%	4.2%
Skipped	0	0.00%	0%

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11. How did you discover the SCP wiki?

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Key
██ = Increase from previous year
██ = Decrease from previous year

Response	# of Responses	%	% of Last Year
/x/ or another imageboard	670	6.04%	4.1%
one of the SCP games	4133	37.25%	12.8%
TV Tropes	456	4.11%	4.7%
Referred by someone you know	2645	23.84%	10.0%
Reddit	2152	19.39%	4.5%
Facebook	188	1.69%	0.4%
Twitter	382	3.44%	0.3%
Tumblr	355	3.20%	1.0%
DeviantArt	342	3.08%	0.4%
Saw some fanart or fanfic somewhere	0	0.00%	N/A
Creepypasta site or blog	1364	12.29%	3.7%
YouTube (Markiplier's Channel)	3102	27.96%	9.6%
YouTube (SCP Reading Channels)	3515	31.68%	10.1%
YouTube (Tat's Top Video's Channel)	754	6.80%	2.3%
YouTube (other channel)	3086	27.81%	11.1%
Accidental result when searching for something else	1001	9.02%	4.3%
SCP reference in another game or game mod	1699	15.31%	2.3%
Wikipedia	391	3.52%	0.7%
Yogscast/Yogpod	200	1.80%	0.7%
Rigveda	28	0.25%	0.0%
NicoNico	54	0.49%	0.1%
Something Awful	177	1.60%	0.0%
Cracked.com	59	0.53%	0.2%
Article on a gaming site	255	2.30%	0.2%
Facepunch	94	0.85%	0.2%
StumbleUpon	411	3.70%	1.3%

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Official responses to questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions submitted

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These were the most commonly submitted questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions submitted in the free-response section of the survey. The Staff team has done their best to answer them!

Why isn't there a dark mode available for the wiki?

There is a dark mode and a browser extension called S-CSS-P available on our Usertools page that allow you to customize the wiki's color scheme.

I'm having issues joining the site. I have applied a few times and I can't get in.

Make sure you're following all the instructions about joining the site listed in the join the site page and the guide for newbies. A couple of important instructions often get accidentally brushed over, but if you read them thoroughly then you should have no issues.

I'm not getting the account confirmation email when creating a Wikidot account.

Make sure you aren't using a hotmail address and your email address doesn't have any numbers in it. There's currently a couple of bugs in Wikidot's registration that causes accounts with these elements to not receive a confirmation email.

The Search Bar keeps giving none or inaccurate results. Is there a fix to this?

Wikidot's search functionality has some unfortunate issues that we are unable to solve ourselves due to the fact that we do not have access to wikidot's backend. However, most of the issues can be resolved by ticking the option for either searching pages or searching the forum (depending on which type you are looking for).

Any updates on the Russian copyright troll case?

We had a preliminary hearing with the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service in March, but Coronavirus has sadly delayed the followup hearing. Suffice it to say that we remain committed to the protection of the Russian SCP community and will update the community via our social media channels and the gofundme as soon as we have news.

Please take care of Dr. Gears! How is he doing?

Thanks to your generous donations, Gears was able to quickly have life-saving surgery that successfully removed his Kidney. He is currently believed to be cancer-free, but as with all cancers long term observation and care will be necessary to ensure that it doesn't return. Gears will keep the community updated via his gofundme, and he is immensely grateful to you all for saving his life and his family's livelihood.

Some portions of the site use a different css theme than others. What's up with that?

Control over an article's CSS and format styling are left to its author (so long as the theme doesn't introduce any errors or remove any page functionality), and some authors have chosen to use different ones than are standard. These different styles are not inherently better or worse than any other, and we encourage readers to judge each page on its own individual merits.

Several major countries and languages weren't listed in relevant questions. Why weren't they present?

Hey! Hi there. This is Taylor speaking. I noted this above in a footnote, but this was 100% my fault. Many of the questions from this survey were taken from the prior year's survey, and those questions were part of that lot. I forgot to update them with new branches created in between the surveys and languages we had forgotten the year prior. I'll be aiming to include everything in the 2020 survey and I apologize for the branches and languages that were left out of this one.

The site could use a new coat of paint. Can we expect one at any point?

There aren't any plans for this at the moment.

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Survey data compiled by:
taylor_itkin does not match any existing user name, Uncle Nicolini, MalyceGraves

Survey data sorted by:
KaraKatt, Hexick, Elogee Fishtruck does not match any existing user name

Footnotes

1. Note from Taylor, the one who made this year's survey: I was made aware after creating and distributing the survey that I missed a number of newer additions to the official SCP wiki branches. Apologies!