Briefly, from the train (so no links): 1. The Wikipedia Challenge competitions were not community initiatives; they were Google initiatives.
2. Agree with Nemo about tools' importance. 3. I'd call out the Tamil Wikipedia Media Contest: great return on very modest investment (of funds); and the Malayalam WikiSangaMotsavam, a series of community and outreach events around a big community gathering, that correlates with a noticeable rise in active editors in MLWP. Both are community initiatives supported by WMF grants. A. On Jun 25, 2013 11:05 AM, "Steven Walling" <steven.wall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 1) I'm confused: first you ask about community initiatives then you list > > activities by chapters and the like. "Community initiative" makes me > think > > of edit drives, custom tools and scripts, processes, guidelines, > > configurations. > > > > Sorry for the confusion. I'm open to hearing about any non-WMF activity, > but I assumed that people would be most knowledgeable > about initiatives that came from chapters or other parts of the community. > > > > 2) Are you interested in last year or all our history? > > > > Let's say since about 2011, with more recent being of primary interest. > > > > 3) Is it really impossible to look for the impact on the statistics > > (assuming you're speaking of eiting activity) and then ask what caused > the > > impact? How much big but indetected/undetectable impact is there? (There > > must be contrasting forces for that.) Are you interested in impact that > > can't be even seen in statistics? > > > > We're also looking at which projects are growing, so as you say, looking at > the stats and then asking what caused it. If you are aware of a editor > recruitment or retention activity that measured, I'd also be interested in > hearing about that, even if it didn't necessarily make some kind of visible > jump in the total active editors of a project. > > Steven > > P.S. Thanks to the folks who reached out off-list with examples. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l