Hi, Am glad am on the list.
Cannot compete.... since besides other things speeds are real low. Takes me forever and repeated tries to even make a minor edit. U can see the log to check this. Am depending on the community to solve this!! Cheers 2008/6/9 Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Eeeeewww... > > This going to be fun. I'm in 8th spot And I figure with some concerted > effort I could challenge Leigh or Randy for third or fourth spot. > Patricia and Wayne may be out of touch, but look out Leigh and Randy I > can see you on the horizon... Maybe we can turn wiki editing into a > competative sport (maybe even have it as full contact, some hybrid > between NZ rules rugby and Canadian hockey... ;) get some > sponsorships... who knows... > > Cheers, Peter > > On Jun 8, 9:02 pm, "Randy Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If WE could find more folks who are Done Eatin', then WE might even be > able > > to grow even faster! > > > > <smile> <belly laugh> > > > > Randy > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Leigh, > > > > > I'll be sleeping less in the future knowing that you're close on my > tail on > > > the number of edits. Remember I had a head start before you joined the > > > community. I'm going to struggle to keep up with those folk down in > Dunedin! > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:44 +1200, Leigh Blackall wrote: > > > > > Holy hell Wayne!! I know that I am flat out editing the Wiki and you do > > > more than 3 times the amount I do!! Do you sleep? Those stats are great > to > > > see. Thanks Jim, thanks Wayne for announcing them. Great to see Otago > Poly > > > people high up th -- e list > > > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Randy -- > > > > > Absolutely! We need to map our stats to key community events in > > > Wikieducator, for example wiki ==> pdf, Kaltura, the launch of the > > > Learning4Content project etc. I think we also need to see how our > > > institutional-based leaders have contributed to our collective > successes. > > > For example: > > > > > - Otago Polytechnic ( > > > > http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic:_An_IP_policy_for_the_times), > > > - the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana ( > > > http://wikieducator.org/UEW) > > > - FLOSS4Edu (http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu) pioneered in Africa > > > and many more. > > > > > COL has commissioned an independent monitoring and evaluation expert in > > > ICTs for development to assist us in understanding our community > > > achievements in relation to achieving our strategic objectives. > > > WikiEducator is very fortunate to have the expert guidance of Dr > Jonathin > > > Miller, one of the coauthors of the World Bank's handbook on > "Monitoring and > > > Evaluation of ICT in Education Projects" ( > > >http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.9.html). WE are privileged to > have > > > this calibre of expertise in assisting our community. > > > > > I'm very excited by these developments and very soon we will post the > draft > > > "log frame" for our community to consider and provide feedback. (This > is a > > > document used in the M&E world for measuring our successes against > strategic > > > objectives). > > > > > We will need the help of all WikiEducators in assisting us to track > data > > > (both quantitative and qualitative). In this way we can collectively > plan > > > the way forward for our project. Given the rigour of an international > agency > > > like COL -- We are fortunate that we can institute a robust M&E plan to > > > objectively justify our success. > > > > > Gee --- these are exciting times! > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 15:08 -0700, Randy Fisher wrote: > > > > > Hi Wayne et al, > > > > > As we tally up the stats - it might be helpful if we have some kind of > > > explanation as to why it has occurred. For example, in terms of numbers > of > > > active users...or edits, where there are spikes in the numbers....a > > > companion legend...I recall that when WE made the Print-to-PDF > announcement, > > > there was a spike in the numbers....This is important qualitative > > > information to go with the quantitative stats. It also serves up > important > > > rallying points for community growth. > > > > > - Randy > > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Leigh, Declan and WE friends, > > > > > In line with Mark Twain's famous quotation -- "There are three kinds of > > > lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." ( > > >http://www.twainquotes.com/Statistics.html) -- Let's take a look at > some > > > of the WE stats. By comparable wiki standards, WikiEducator is a > productive > > > community and I hope that we get better at what we do. > > > > > With BIG thanks to Jim Tittsler who spends cold Sunday's in Gisborne, > NZ > > > helping WE with his technical wizardry. Jim has adapted and run a > script > > > developed by Erik Zachte (http://infodisiac.com/) to analyse WE > activity > > > in a little more detail. We still need to run some validity tests on > the > > > accuracy of the figures -- so take this feedback as being provisional. > > > > > As of 30 May 2008, Wikieducator has 573 accounts that have recorded > more > > > than 10 edits since they joined the project. 180 WikiEducators have > been > > > responsible for 83% of the total edits in Wikieducator. (At this is > more > > > than the 40 based on the 1% rule). That's about a third of the more > active > > > users (i.e. the 573 above.) These numbers are much higher than I > expected > > > -- well done WikiEducator! > > > > > How does WikiEducator's productivity compare with other wiki > communities? > > > Looking at statistics for the English Wikiversity as of Feb 2008 ( > > >http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/EN/Sitemap.htm) this is how the > > > figures stack up: > > > > > - Number of contributors with more than 10 edits: 653 (Wikiversity > or > > > WV) and 505 (WikiEducator or WE) > > > - Number of "active" contributors (ie. number of people who > submitted > > > more than 5 edits in Feb 2008): 74 (WV) 148 (WE) > > > - Number of edits for Feb 2008: 3.4K (WV) 9.3K (WE) -- However, Feb > > > was an unusually high month -- our average monthly edits are about > 5.2K > > > - Mean number of edits per article: 13.4 (WV) and 20.4 (WE) > > > > > I must stress that we are not competing with Wikiversity, on the > contrary, > > > I see our projects as complementing each other as unique contributions > to > > > the free knowledge community. Given the differences between the nature > of > > > our respective communities, we may be comparing apples with oranges. > > > > > However our small, but growing project can stand proud in that our > > > productivity rates compare very favourably with the big wiki projects. > > > Congratulations to all WikiEducators and institutions who are > demonstrating > > > that we can collaborate and develop learning materials the wiki way. > > > > > Take a look at the figures and see if you're a top 50 Wikieducator! > > > > > Have fun -- bearing in mind that we haven't validated the figures yet - > > > see: > > > > >http://wikieducator.org/stats/reports/TablesWikipediaEN.htm > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 18:01 +1200, Leigh Blackall wrote: > > > > > The email list has only 382 people... going by the 10% rule of online > > > engagement, that seems about right. Wikied has 4000 signups, of which > around > > > 400 are in the email forum, of which about 40 participate. This 10% > rule > > > reflects the experience I have always had with online communications > and > > > collaboration. Wikipedians are even less optimistic and call it the 1% > > > rule <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_Rule>, which in our case may > be > > > the truth. 4000 people viewing what 40 create. Or perhaps its as good > as 40 > > > 000 viewing what 400 create? > > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Declan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is this exponential growth I see? It seems as though we gained our > > > most recent thousand users far more rapidly than the thousand users > > > before that. Can we get the data (new users per day since opening the > > > site) might be fun for the math folks and ecologists out there. > > > > > Math aside, congratulations to all on this next milestone. The growth > > > of the community and the addition of new talent and imagination > > > greatly increases the potential and value of what WE can achieve. > > > > > Good night to all, > > > > > Declan > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Leigh Blackall > > > +64(0)21736539 > > > skype - leigh_blackall > > > SL - Leroy Goalpost > > >http://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > > -- > > > ________________ > > > Randy Fisher - Facilitating Change, Connections and Collaboration to > > > Improve Performance. > > > * Engaging People in Teams, Communities and Organizations....and > > > WikiEducator! > > > > > + 1 604.684.2275 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >www.wikieducator.com > > >www.wikieducator.com/User:Randyfisher > > > > > Skype: wikirandy > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Leigh Blackall > > > +64(0)21736539 > > > skype - leigh_blackall > > > SL - Leroy Goalpost > > >http://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > -- > > ________________ > > Randy Fisher - Facilitating Change, Connections and Collaboration to > Improve > > Performance. > > * Engaging People in Teams, Communities and Organizations....and > > WikiEducator! > > > > + 1 604.684.2275 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/User:Randyfisher > > > > Skype: wikirandy- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 9786 2584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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