Hi, at Wikimania we decided to have this key discussion about technical community metrics at wikitech-l, since this is where our tech community can be found. Forwarding here as a heads up. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Key community metrics to influence our plans Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:21:06 +0200 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 你好, 近排點呀? [0] At Wikimania there was an improvised lunch-meeting about community metrics with Jesús González-Barahona (Bitergia), Sumana, RobLa and myself. The main conclusion was that http://korma.wmflabs.org needs to show a very few key metrics that could drive decisions affecting our strategy and resources. Let's agree first on key factors to watch, in the scope of projects deployed in Wikimedia servers: * Are the teams more efficient processing contributions? * Is the share of non-WMF contributions growing? * Are WMF and non-WMF contributions treated equally? * Are the attraction and retention of new contributors improving? * Are we improving the sustainability of our community? If those are the key factors, these could be the key metrics: # Who is contributing merged code each quarter? More origins == Better. ## WMF / WMDE / other Wikimedia / companies / OSS projects / independents ## Location of contributors (based on provided data) # Time to resolve Gerrit changes. Shorter == Better. ## Authored by WMF/WMDE employees vs independent. Should be the same. ## Merged vs rejected. Similar progress? ## Best projects vs bottlenecks. # Queue of open Gerrit change requests in relation to total amount of contributions. Shorter == Better. ## Same points as above. # New contributors with 1 / 2-5 / 6+ changes submitted in the past 3 months. More == Better. ## % of merged / rejected. ## Who is growing / stable / vanishing? # Age of contributors since they started in the project. Small and regular decline == Better. ## Number of contributions from each age group in the past quarters. ## WMF / non-WMF ratio for each age group. Please have your say. I will be updating http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_metrics following the discussion. [0] http://wikitravel.org/en/Cantonese_phrasebook#Phrase_list ;) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil