Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-07 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, A great opportunity for this kind of reports is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA/Journal Kind regards Ziko Ziko van Dijk voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Associatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-05 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, Nemo. Certainly, this was an ENWP experiment, and it's not unreasonable that there would be "no learnings for other projects". The post's audience was absolutely anyone in the movement who may care; after all, anyone can replicate this experiment or something like it, in other countries, othe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-05 Thread Jon Davies
I am an audience! Thanks and it really makes some broader points. We often start from finding people who have a passion about a subject but don;t edit yet. That at least solves the 'blank sheet of paper' fear. Liked the discussion though. On 4 July 2013 08:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks. The problem of the blog post is IMHO that it's unclear what audience it's directed to. The learnings and suggestions *might* be useful for some en.wiki WikiProjects, but en.wiki is obviously the least suitable wiki for such experiments. There are no learnings for other projects and I s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-03 Thread Maryana Pinchuk
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I wanted to remind us all of the importance of learning from when our plans > and efforts don't succeed, whether due to mistakes or just an experimental > hypothesis turning out to not be the case. > > We at the Wikimedia F

[Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-03 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear colleagues, I wanted to remind us all of the importance of learning from when our plans and efforts don't succeed, whether due to mistakes or just an experimental hypothesis turning out to not be the case. We at the Wikimedia Foundation have had such an experiment a few months ago, and an id