On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. I'm currently not on a train, so here are two links: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/20/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WikiSangamotsavam_2012/Malayalam_Wiki_Conference_2012/Report > > A. > On Jun 25, 2013 11:05 AM, "Steven Walling" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) >> <[email protected]>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 >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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