Hi Savithri,
No worries, this is not a competition, it just lies in the nature of the things we all are doing and once you get more involved, this will automatically increase. Thank you very much for your contributions. They have been great. Warmest, Patricia ________________________________ From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savithri Singh Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:03 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: 4,000+ users; congratulationsonanothermilestone 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:Randyfi sher > > 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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