Hi Aisha,
I suggest that you contact Jaime Anstee and/or Katy Love (cc'd here) about
this subject, because they are WMF staff who do a lot of work with
grantmaking and performance evaluation for chapters. They might know of
some analyses that could help you.
Discussions about what kinds of resources, and what quantities of
resources, to allocate to the chapters vs. smaller affiliates, other kinds
of grants, and WMF-run work that focuses on content and community
development, have been happening for years, and are likely to continue for
the foreseeable future.
Different chapters function differently, partly because of varied cultural
and legal contexts, so there is not a monolithic model of how a chapter
should run. The definition of "successful" varies from affiliate to
affiliate.
There has been a discussion for years about how to define and quantify
affiliate "impact"; my personal preference is to abolish are use of that
word. (:
Pine
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Aisha Brady <aishabrady(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
Could anyone point me towards any papers relevant to Wikimedia chapters
(how they function, the work they do, whether they have been successful or
otherwise)?
Thank you! :)
Aisha
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