This seems a start towards way to message "community health" that anyone
can grasp:
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Health_rating_radio_button_template_on_talk_pages

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 4:10 AM ABEL SERRANO JUSTE <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for opening the discussion. In our research group
> <https://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/newmain/language/en/>, we are working
> specifically on this.
>
> You can get a lot of good ideas and pointers to other research from the 
> Wikimedia
> research page <https://research.wikimedia.org/community-health.html> and
> from the last Inspire Campaign of Wikimedia, which it was precisely about
> Measuring editing community health:
> https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire
>
> Thank you also Marc for sharing your ideas, they are very interesting. We
> have already been working with inequality metrics
> <http://www.opensym.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OpenSym2018_paper_31-1.pdf>
> .
>
> El vie., 19 oct. 2018 a las 16:35, Marc Miquel (<[email protected]>)
> escribió:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> I think this project is fundamental. I'm glad you are working on it.
>>
>> I have researched this topic in my PhD thesis and I went through a review
>> of the online communities engagement literature.
>>
>> Few ideas for metrics:
>> - Contributions inequality measurements (gini coefficients as a start).
>> - Multilingual editors contributions (to see whether they see Wikipedia
>> as a global project or prefer to focus on one language).
>> - Core-periphery social interactions (admins-newbees, in order to detect
>> communities more prone to mentoring)
>> - Rate of newbies completing the first article, rate of newbies
>> completing the first translation, etc.
>> - Recency measures for newbies (different measures on editor retention).
>> - Community/functional roles renewal (admin, autopatrolled, etc. to see
>> how good a community is at renewing its core along the years).
>>
>> I'd be happy to further discuss the topic. At your disposal.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Marc Miquel
>>
>>
>> El dv., 5 d’oct. 2018 a les 23:29, Joe Sutherland (<
>> [email protected]>) va escriure:
>>
>>> Hello everyone - apologies for cross-posting! *TL;DR*: We would like
>>> your feedback on our Metrics Kit project. Please have a look and comment on
>>> Meta-Wiki:
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit
>>>
>>>
>>> The Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team, in collaboration with
>>> the Community Health Initiative, is working on a Metrics Kit designed to
>>> measure the relative "health"[1] of various communities that make up the
>>> Wikimedia movement:
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit
>>>
>>> The ultimate outcome will be a public suite of statistics and data
>>> looking at various aspects of Wikimedia project communities. This could be
>>> used by both community members to make decisions on their community
>>> direction and Wikimedia Foundation staff to point anti-harassment tool
>>> development in the right direction.
>>>
>>> We have a set of metrics we are thinking about including in the kit,
>>> ranging from the ratio of active users to active administrators,
>>> administrator confidence levels, and off-wiki factors such as freedom to
>>> participate. It's ambitious, and our methods of collecting such data will
>>> vary.
>>>
>>> Right now, we'd like to know:
>>> * Which metrics make sense to collect? Which don't? What are we missing?
>>> * Where would such a tool ideally be hosted? Where would you normally
>>> look for statistics like these?
>>> * We are aware of the overlap in scope between this and Wikistats <
>>> https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects> — how might these tools
>>> coexist?
>>>
>>> Your opinions will help to guide this project going forward. We'll be
>>> reaching out at different stages of this project, so if you're interested
>>> in direct messaging going forward, please feel free to indicate your
>>> interest by signing up on the consultation page.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to reading your thoughts.
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> P.S.: Please feel free to CC me in conversations that might happen on
>>> this list!
>>>
>>> [1] What do we mean by "health"? There is no standard definition of what
>>> makes a Wikimedia community "healthy", but there are many indicators that
>>> highlight where a wiki is doing well, and where it could improve. This
>>> project aims to provide a variety of useful data points that will inform
>>> community decisions that will benefit from objective data.
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Trust and Safety Specialist
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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