Le 30/04/2019 à 21:37, Isaac Olatunde a écrit :

The questions we should ask ourselves are:

1. Since 2014, how many of the images contributed as part of Wiki Loves Africa are currently in use on Wikipedia?

2. From the 6200 contributors, how many of them are retained and or how many are still contributing photos or contributing in other capacity to Wikimedia project?

3. Is the current model realistically productive?

4. Should WMF continue to invest donor funds on this contest?

5. What is the future of Wiki Loves Africa?

Well, I think the community could initiate a strategic discussion on the future of Wiki Loves Africa.

Regards,

Isaac


All fair questions. In many cases, I do not have a clear answer. In some cases, I do.

I'd like to point to : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Results_and_best_practices
Such documents have been made every single year.
Also, the past 4 years, final reports have been made to WMF. Here is last year report : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Final
Those documents took a fair amount of time to write so I will be honored if some read them.
The overarching page were all information may be found is here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa. If you click on each year link, you will similarly find "best practices", "report", "grant" etc.


Please note that since there was no whole project grant for WLA this year, there will be no full report written about WLA 2019. No one has an obligation to write one.
But we could collectively write a "Results and best practices in 2019" and this would clearly be a super interesting starting point to reflect on the questions above asked.

Anyone (litterally ANYONE, be bold) is welcome to start : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Results_and_best_practices
Even if it is 2 lines or 10 lines... it will be good. PLEASE BE BOLD and create it.


When it comes to your questions.

Answering question 1 is actually quite easy.
This is the tool to answer it : https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous/
Simply enter the images categories (such as Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2014) and you'll get the answer just in two clicks (RUN, then "Global File Usage")


To answer question 2, I do not have a direct answer, but it should be easy enough to collect this info.
If you are well versed in queries, you can make one. All the necessary info is stored, so there is no technical limitation to answer this question. Only doing the query.
If you are not well versed in writing queries (neither am I), I invite you to make a request there : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query
Please do it.

Last, I must point out that I did some stats with Civil Servant (Princeton University) last winter. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CivilServant%27s_Wikimedia_studies/Wiki_Loves_Africa_Recruitment_2019
We were hoping to do a research study to measure the impact of mass messaging on participation, with two different mass messages or no messages to be sent to ALL prior participants to WLA (to invite them to further participate this year).
I must outline that unfortunately this research was dropped, in particular because the research had to be approved by the board of ethics of Princeton, and in fact, we submitted our request too late to get the approval in time. We are hoping to run a similar experiment this summer with the ISA tool (but have to submit a request for authorization again :))).

In any cases, when we prepared this research, we made quite a bit of digging in the data. As part of this research, I collected a FULL table of all unique username of former WLA participants (4 years). This table was meant to be used to create the recipient list of wikimedians to receive the mass message. In that table, I also identified in which contest each participant got involved in. 

You will see a summary of some of the results here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Mass_messages#Helpful_figures_and_stats_(2_months_long_competitions)
This data was curated by Civil Servant (not by myself). This might be of interest to you.

38588 total images

Participants - 4659 unique

39085 Wiki Loves Africa submissions from 4 658 contributors had 7 457 article appearances as of Jan 2019 and received 278.859.973 views between 2015 through the end of 2018.

The query page may be found here : https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:CS_natematias/Query%20WikiLovesAfrica%20Images%20and%20How%20Often%20They%20Were%20Viewed.ipynb


Florence