Ah, shoot. Somehow doubled this one up! Apologies for that. It’s not as long as it looks, I promise. ;)
I’ve trimmed the message in the quote below to its intended length. best, Joe Sent from a mobile device - please excuse typos. > On Oct 5, 2018, at 14:29, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone - apologies for cross-posting! TL;DR: We would like your > feedback on our Metrics Kit project. Please have a look and comment on > Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit > > > The Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team, in collaboration with the > Community Health Initiative, is working on a Metrics Kit designed to measure > the relative "health"[1] of various communities that make up the Wikimedia > movement: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit > > The ultimate outcome will be a public suite of statistics and data looking at > various aspects of Wikimedia project communities. This could be used by both > community members to make decisions on their community direction and > Wikimedia Foundation staff to point anti-harassment tool development in the > right direction. > > We have a set of metrics we are thinking about including in the kit, ranging > from the ratio of active users to active administrators, administrator > confidence levels, and off-wiki factors such as freedom to participate. It's > ambitious, and our methods of collecting such data will vary. > > Right now, we'd like to know: > * Which metrics make sense to collect? Which don't? What are we missing? > * Where would such a tool ideally be hosted? Where would you normally look > for statistics like these? > * We are aware of the overlap in scope between this and Wikistats > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects> — how might these tools > coexist? > > Your opinions will help to guide this project going forward. We'll be > reaching out at different stages of this project, so if you're interested in > direct messaging going forward, please feel free to indicate your interest by > signing up on the consultation page. > > Looking forward to reading your thoughts. > > best, > Joe > > [1] What do we mean by "health"? There is no standard definition of what > makes a Wikimedia community "healthy", but there are many indicators that > highlight where a wiki is doing well, and where it could improve. This > project aims to provide a variety of useful data points that will inform > community decisions that will benefit from objective data. > > -- > Joe Sutherland (he/him or they/them) > Trust and Safety Specialist > Wikimedia Foundation > joesutherland.rocks _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
