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@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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