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Mathematica Wolfram Community Wolfram Language Operating System and Network Access Packages

Posted 8 years ago

Hello everyone, I created a survey to try to determine what versions of Mathematica people are most commonly using. Please fill it out, and forward the survey to any friends or colleagues who also use Mathematica. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmiNCQH5mBKYWAf9V6DzcuidsRRqX3LOg2_C6Hr0eKDxunog/viewform Motivation: This information will be useful for package authors to decide what versions of Mathematica to support. For example, my MaTeX and IGraph/M packages still support Mathematica 10.0. I would like to know how many users are left out if I make e.g. M11.1 the minimum requirement. I believe other package authors would find these statistics useful too. Similar statistics are available e.g. for Android versions. If enough people respond, results will be posted in this thread in a couple of weeks.

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát

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Posted 8 years ago

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát

Posted 8 years ago

Thanks for setting this up. Is there any way this could also be posted somewhere on Meta on the Mathematica StackExchange? That might get a slightly larger user base/less skewed towards the Wolfram fans, even if it will still be biased toward long-term/power users.

POSTED BY: b3m2a1  

Posted 8 years ago

M.SE has a lot more traffic than W\|C, but unfortunately it's not suitable for posting surveys. Meta has much less traffic than the main site. Mostly it is the regulars who visit. So the sample will certainly be biased. This is why I originally chose W\|C to post the survey. For the second round, it seems like a good idea to also advertise on Meta, so I did. Now idea: What might be better is placing an actual community ad (didn't think of this before). That will show on the main M.SE site!