Hi Kerry,Cool initiative. But then I expect nothing less from Ijon.I probably don't have to time perform additional analysis, unless it's a project I'm supporting on a volunteer basis. But one thing I do have time for is leading more SQL tutorials[1] to teach more people how to ask and answer questions with Wikimedia data. Always happy to set up a webinar.I can also advise on sampling and other methodological considerations, and *may* be able to help with gathering data in some cases. Ping me as needed.JonathanOn Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:_______________________________________________Asaf Bartov has announced the WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development on the Wikimedia-l mailing list. The thread starts here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-August/078954.html
The initiative can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
As experimentation is mentioned in parts of this, I have asked a question about the freedom to experiment, the engineering resources to support experiments, and (possibly involving some of you) the support of WMF for the qualitative and quantitative collection and analysis of data arising from such experiments.
We speculate a lot on this list about what might make a difference but generally that’s all we can do as we have no way to test an idea. So I am genuinely curious to know if the resourcing is there to support experimentation.
I also note that the on-wiki pages invite ideas. It occurred to me that there might be scope for re-using ideas that have been put forward on this list.
Kerry
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