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. - (2) the major issues with the current metrics. - (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, Jaime -- Jaime Anstee, Ph.D Senior Strategist & Affiliations Committee Liaison Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6869 www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sati Houston &lt;shouston(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 AM Subject: Announcement - Review of Global Metrics To: affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Jaime Anstee &lt;janstee(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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 &lt;shouston(a)wikimedia.org&gt;) or Jaime Anstee (janstee(a)wikimedia.org &lt;janstee(a)wikimedia.org&gt;)*>)*, 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