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On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:00 AM, <education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:54:42 +0200
> From: john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Issues finding tools to measure
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> Hi Anna
>
> Thanks, if you have any suggestions for additional tools to provide for
> contributors or any metrics you think I should use for reporting please do
> add them to the list.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> On 2 October 2015 at 21:04, Anna Koval <akoval(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > @Pine, thanks for your reply to John and the tip to ask Leila (not
> Lila!).
> > ;) It's much appreciated.
> >
> > @John, your metrics tools list [1] is helpful. I saw some tools there
> that
> > were new(s) to me. BaGLAMa 2 [2], for example. Could that or something
> > similar be used to collect pageviews stats en masse for categories of
> > Commons files uploaded by students in WEPs? Here's one such category from
> > the WEP Tec de Monterrey. [3] Manually mathing out the file totals to
> get a
> > category total would be painful, imo. There must be an easier way. We
> have
> > so many tools as a movement, though not all are well used or even well
> > known. Thanks for asking this question on-list so that we all will
> benefit
> > from the answer. Metrics and measurement matter. It's good that we're
> > talking about how to do so -- smarter not harder.
> >
> > Anna
> >
> > [1]
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Planning_UNESCO_metrics
> > [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html
> > [3]
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Student_photos_taken_for_Experi…
> >
> > Anna Koval, M.Ed.
> > Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
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> > --
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:23 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Pine
> >>
> >> Hi Leila
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated, I seem to have got very stuck,
> >> there are some fairly basic things I would like to measure and the
> tools to
> >> do so either don't exist or I don't know about them.
> >>
> >> All the best
> >>
> >> John
> >> On 2 Oct 2015 17:36, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi John,
> >>>
> >>> Those are some good suggestions for tools. I would like to suggest that
> >>> you contact Leila (not Lila!) who I think has been doing some work with
> >>> suggested articles for translation. She may have some ideas for you.
> >>> Regarding your questions for multimedia, I would like to suggest that
> you
> >>> email those questions to the Multimedia mailing list.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck,
> >>> Pine
> >>> On Oct 2, 2015 3:42 AM, "john cummings" <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi All
> >>>>
> >>>> This is my first time posing on this list, I'm sorry if it is perhaps
> a
> >>>> little off topic. I'm currently Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and
> plan
> >>>> to run an online collaboration, a little bit like a short term
> Wikiproject
> >>>> with two main goals:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Help organise reuse of UNESCO content on Wikimedia projects
> >>>> (UNESCO has released content under an open license and will do more
> >>>> shortly).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Help improve content on Wikimedia of the subjects of UNESCO
> >>>> programmes e.g the World Heritage Sites.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been planning ways that I can use tools to:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Organise work for contributors across all languages
> >>>> - Provide contributors feedback on their contributions (e.g page
> >>>> views for all contributions combined)
> >>>> - Measure success of the project.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been doing this on wiki here
> >>>>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Planning_UNESCO_metrics
> >>>>
> >>>> In short I'm finding it very hard to find the tools needed, I have
> >>>> found less than a third of what I think would be helpful but found
> others
> >>>> that may be tangentially useful which I've added in.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any help would be appreciate, please feel free to comment here, on the
> >>>> talk page or just add tools to the fields
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> John
> >>>>
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