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Hi
I want to make our Education program participants' metrics on Wikisource
but don't know what to write in the field "Namespaces" for the Page:
namespace. I need how many bytes the participants has added while
proofreading the pages.
Best,
Lilit Tarkhanyan
Wikimedia Armenia
Board Member
Wikipedia Education Program Leader
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tel. +374 55 534 011
Hi Wikimetricians,
1. Does Wikimetrics count files uploaded to Commons as new pages?
2. Does Wikimetrics count new versions of files that are uploaded to
Commons over old versions as edits?
3. Is there an automated way to see how many pageviews and thumbnail views
happened to pages and Commons files after those pages and Commons files
were touched by editors who are noted in a Wikimetrics report? Viewership
is one way of measuring impact, and I think it would be interesting to
measure the impact of a Wikimetrics cohort in this way.
Thanks!
Pine
For all who have been experiencing the Global Metrics for grants reporting
- we would like to hear from you.
The Community Resources team, in conjunction with the Program Capacity &
Learning team, is embarking on a retrospective and update of Global Metrics,
with the goals of understanding:
-
(1) how useful the current metrics are to grantees, Committee members,
WMF staff ,and the broader movement.
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(2) the major issues with the current metrics.
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(3) how those issues could be addressed.
You can find more information here about the project and how you can
provide public or private feedback here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_metrics/Review
(See complete announcement message below)
Please be sure to share your experience by March 25th to help us in this
review and planning for next possible steps.
Best regards,
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sati Houston <shouston(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 AM
Subject: Announcement - Review of Global Metrics
To: affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Jaime Anstee <janstee(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello All,
My name is Sati Houston and I work within the Community Resources team at
the Wikimedia Foundation.
I'm writing to let you know that the Community Resources team, in
conjunction with the Program Capacity & Learning team[1], is embarking
on a retrospective
and update of Global Metrics, with the goals of:
-
(1) understanding how useful the current metrics are to grantees,
Committee members, WMF staff and the broader movement.
-
(2) understanding the major issues with the current metrics.
-
(3) understanding how those issues could be addressed.
You can find more information here about the project and how you can
provide public or private feedback here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_metrics/Review
It's important to highlight that we are *not* running this as a Request for
Comment (RfC) or consultation, where we have already identified a problem,
set of solutions and are asking for community commentary. Instead, this
retrospective focuses on gather systematic feedback across all who have
used / been involved with Global Metrics. Based on that feedback, we will
summarize the issues that we've heard - from grantees, Committee members,
and even WMF staff - and then openly design solutions to address those
problems.
Again, you can find more information about the different phases of the
project - collecting feedback, designing solutions, choosing what to
implement - here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_metrics/Review
*If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Sati Houston
(shouston(a)wikimedia.org <shouston(a)wikimedia.org>) or Jaime Anstee
(janstee(a)wikimedia.org <janstee(a)wikimedia.org>)*, as we are the main points
of contact for this review of Global Metrics.
Thank you in advance for your feedback. I look forward to hearing
your thoughts and suggestions!
Best,
Sati
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Capacity_and_Learning
Hi Romaine,
I added your request to our task tracking system:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124492
This sort of thing will require a programmer to make a simple change in the
code, but before that happens, it needs to be prioritized over other work.
Can you give us a better sense of how you use tagging? Do you tag all your
cohorts? How many cohorts do you have? How does tagging make your work
easier?
BTW I have cc'ed the wikimetrics mailing list as others on this list may be
interested.
Best,
Kevin
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> Trying out metrics.wmflabs.org for Wikimedia Belgium I stumbled into a
> list of affiliations that is incomplete. I noticed that you are the main
> author of the page on MediaWiki:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikimetrics/Standard_tags
>
> Can you please add Wikimedia Belgium to the system and this page?
> wm:BE-Wikimedia-Belgium
>
> Thanks!
> Romaine
>
>
Hi everyone, sorry for the delayed message. We finished and deployed a new
feature last week:
https://metrics.wmflabs.org/reports/program-global-metrics
>From that form, a program leader can run a standard report for their
program's cohort with the least amount of data entry necessary. No cohorts
need to be created, validated, or anything. This is streamlined for just
this specific use case.
The praise goes to Amanda for trying on a ton of new hats and managing this
project and Madhu for doing the vast majority of the work. I take any
blame as the translator in the middle who sometimes got things wrong. Let
me know if anything isn't working as expected.
Thanks!
Dan
Hello all,
The Analytics team and I have been working on a tool to make calculating
global metrics easier,--would you be interested in testing it, so it's as
useful as possible to you and all program leaders? It works in
Wikimetrics, but instead of running several different reports, you just
enter the usernames, dates, and timezone and it gives you the Global Metrics.
To finalize its development, we need to know:
1) Is the tool easy to use?
2) What would make it easier to use?
3) How does it compare to your current method of collecting Global Metrics,
whether it's Wikimetrics or a different method?
If you are interested in testing it, it's still in the development
environment here https://metrics-staging.wmflabs.org/reports/program-metrics
/create/ .
Note that usernames need to be separated by carriage returns like this:
Username 1
Username 2
.
.
.
and that the "edits" metric is actually pages improved, the name just
hasn't been updated yet. You may receive a server error or the page might
not load, because Labs is having connectivity problems, but this isn't a
problem with the new tool and the Labs team is working hard to fix it.
I hope you get to test it out, and I hope you find it useful!
Many thanks,
Amanda
Program Design & Evaluation
WMF
Dear Wikimetrics list,
Due to some updates that wikimetrics wasn't able to handle, we lost a link
to the old report results. Please let us know how this affects you so we
can figure out what the best way to fix it is. If it's not a big deal and
you can just re-run reports, then we won't spend too much time recovering
and we'll focus on making sure this doesn't happen next time.