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
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.
Jonathan
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Wikiresearch_webinars
On 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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+1
I talked to Asaf a bit about this project at OpenSym last week. Fortunately, the project aligns closely with my interests in system-level thinking[1] and system-level measurements[2]. I hope to contribute where I can. :)
1. http://socio-technologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/wikipedias-socio-technology-a... 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Measuring_value-added
-Aaron
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Jonathan
On 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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