Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Brian Wolff
If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure, retention of female editors, to that particular growth project. The results should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure, retention of female

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
(I'm not on wikimedia-l so this won't make it to that list unless someone forwards it; please feel free.) wikitech-l and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals seem like good places to talk about whether we should have gendergap-related goals for Wikimedia