Hi Sam,
The main misconception (which is understandable, but also often pointed out
already) is that Wiki Loves Monuments can be fundamentally different
projects from a goals-and-outcomes point of view, based on the interests
and strenghts of the local organizers and the local situation. In some
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Maria Cruz mc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
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All in all it is good to have something 'to shoot at' but I would prefer
that these reports are produces more in concert with the stakeholders
involved and affected, rather than 'announced' and 'presented' to the
Hi Lodewijk,
Thanks for your feedback about the process. It's been very valuable.
I have a few follow up questions below:
Sure, the team did reach out in the collection phase - after all, without
the data such evaluation would be impossible. But after that, the
conclusions were drafted
Hi folks,
Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:
• It’s time for some #tastydata
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/07/time-for-tasty-data/
• The #100wikidays challenge
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/06/100wikidays-challenge/
• Editing Wikipedia as community
Regaring measuerment of editor retention - this is tricky - as in fact many
participant created new accounts only to join the contest. Some of them had
accounts on Wikipedia (but different) - some others - abandoned their
accounts and created a new ones for various reasons (the most trival - they
Editor retention really consists of three components
*new temporary contributors. WLM helps here, and even if they leave after a few
edits this is of value for the projects. They have learned to edit, and will be
more open to correct an error or complement an article very much later when
using
There has been coverage in the Signpost. Try following through this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandboxaction=editsection=newpreview=yespreload=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Templates/Index_preloadpreloadparams[]=wikinews
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Rodrigo
Hi,
I wasn't involved in this evaluation, but I would like to say that, as
someone who recently worked for WMF Learning and Evaluation, I believe that
the LE team is interested in producing useful and accurate reports. So, I
am optimistic that feedback from the community about methodology and
Hi Edward,
Thanks for the questions. The Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list would have
made a very logical starting place to ask for initial feedback. But also
sending an email to the people who shared their data with you to work with
in the first place, or people who worked on internal
Greetings, Wikimedia colleagues!
In November 2014, we launched a pilot self-assessment tool for Wikimedia
organizations to help us identify areas where we as Wikimedia organizations
might leverage our strengths and address our challenges to achieve better
results. We have some aggregate data
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:
I hope that at some point WLM organizers can be given the tools, enthusiasm
and support to create their own evaluation on a larger scale. That way I
hope that some of the flaws can be avoided thanks to a better
I organized a contest Wiki Loves Monuments wiki and loves earth in algeria
and coordinate on the rest of each arabic country who has organised the
contest
I had a lot of fun to organize during 2013 2014 till 2015 now
In algeria ;with astonishment ;many do not know what that meant wikipedia;
Hello guys,
I'm struggling to find any kind of discussion/research about wikinews and
the relation with free journalism (free as defined here:
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition).
Did you know any kind of paper, article about it? Or even articles about
free journalism (free mean fre,
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