Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-05 Thread WereSpielChequers
Yes, but may I also point out that one of our biggest problems on EN wiki is that even good faith newbies will often have their edits reverted. If you add uncited facts to a page you are now much more likely to have your edit reverted than to have someone add so I would suggest a metric that i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-05 Thread Quim Gil
Thanks Pine for pushing in the direction of metrics. Any list aiming to be operational will need to be in a better support than an email, though. The tech community section of your list has many similarities to the list we are working on as Engineering Community quarterly goal right now. Ensure t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-04 Thread Pine W
Hi Luis, Aaron and all, Here's a list of possible metrics that we could use for measuring community health. Introductory notes: * I emphasized the number of unique contributors rather than number of contributions. * All of these metrics can be calculated over a variety of time-frames, although I