On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih
<andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
3. 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.
[1]