On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
- Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of
activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. Facebook, GLAM-oriented lists, etc) have emerged in recent years.
Let me second this. My department is thinking about community health metrics (constructive suggestions welcome!), but I would not personally propose mailing list participation (especially this list) as a good metric
- decreased participation here may reflect many, many things, only some of
which are actually negative.
This is not the only one indicator, but it's pretty consistent since 2011 (take a look into [1]). In other words, something happened in May. Maybe it's actually about the elections because people used other means of communication for that.