Using an image as a question?

[Jonathan Morgan]

Hi all,

I'm interested in using AllOurIdeas to compare image captions. The study design would involve displaying an image instead of a textual question, and asking participants to choose between different possible captions for that image. I don't see anything explicitly about this in the documentation. Is it possible to do this through allouridea.org, or through the API?

If it's not possible to display images directly, a possible workaround would be to use a hyperlink to the image as the question. Does the question field in allourideas.org support HTML?

Any guidance greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jonathan Morgan
Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation

[Matthew Salganik]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your question.

As far as I know, nobody has done something quite like that before, but it should be possible to do that with the API and some small tweaks to the existing front end.  

Our code is on github: https://github.com/allourideas but I think you might have to set up your own hosted version.  Luke Baker, our lead developer, has created instructions for that (https://github.com/allourideas/allourideas.org/wiki/Installing) and can help troubleshoot.  Also, there might be someone else at the Wikimedia Foundation who has set up a hosted version already; I don’t know.

Unfortunately the question field does not support HTML, but I think that should be straightforward modification.

Sorry not to be more helpful, but please let us know if you have any more questions,

Matt

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Matthew Salganik

Department of Sociology

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ, USA

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