This is great work Gnangarra and the WA team! The metrics and evaluation issue is topical at the moment. I have just been sent a survey from the Program Evaluation & Design Team (PE&D) at WMF. They also provided this prep spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqQxi0BdfXDsdDlsc3RxYXlLaHJ6SUtxZTRZOWM0LUE&usp=drive_web#gid=1>for gathering data. I think the prep sheet is daunting and not user-friendly and I have given a lot of feedback on it, which you can see here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/Resources/Pilot_Reporting_Items>if you want.
My main concern is that we need a sheet that will help us to *plan* as well as report, including planning what data we need to gather, so we don't have the problem of reporting on what we have not gathered. (And also so we *have * some data). I understand the PE&D team are working towards that end and this spreadsheet is a start. So use it if you can to think about your activity and what data you might want from it. Here is the Programs: Evaluation portal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal>on meta if you want to follow this. The grants people, naturally enough, are working with the Evaluation people as this work is all about how to tell what what activities produce worthwhile results, what is gained from money expended, and as a consequence, where/how it is best to expend effort and money. An evaluation of the Residency at SLNSW is here as part of the Library's project page.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales/Evaluation> *No funding* from the Chapter or WMF was used in this program. Whiteghost.ink On 10 October 2013 17:15, Toby Hudson <tob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Craig Franklin > <cfrank...@halonetwork.net> wrote: > > I also agree that the chapter and its volunteers *have* done a lot of > great > > work over the past few years, and I think you've hit the nail on the head > > that we've often failed to effectively communicate our successes. Part > of > > any projects going forward will be a need to say "here's how we're going > to > > measure success" before we actually dive in on any project, so that we > can > > either use that measurement as justification for further funding, or use > > that measurement to figure out what went wrong and make sure we don't > make > > the same mistake twice. > > and then: > > > Absolutely, a lot of volunteers have pitched in at some time or another > and done some great work that have (in my opinion) led to positive outcomes > for the movement. Enough that I'm not going to even try to enumerate them > all for fear that I'll leave someone out :-). > > > Hi Craig, > Although forward planning of outcome metrics is obviously a good thing > for the future, I think we should make an effort now to compile > outcomes and metrics for projects, programs and grants that have > already taken place. Is there an onwiki page for this, or a table to > fill out for each project or grant we have undertaken? I know there > are some reports linked from here > http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Reports#Small_grants but surely there > are more hanging around? Even though you can't enumerate them off the > top of your head, we *should* be able to enumerate them if everyone > writes up the outcomes of projects we've individually been involved > with. I know there are huge outcomes as a result of the SLNSW > training and residency.. but maybe they have not been tabulated into > reportable dotpoints? > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >
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