The Wikimedia Community Tech team is in the final stretch of their
Community Wishlist 2017 work and recently announced the beta launch of
the 'Event Metrics' project they worked on for the #3 wish. Since the
initial proposal [1] was to improve Wiki Education's program
organizing and metrics tool Programs & Events Dashboard [2], we've
heard from a lot of people worried that Event Metrics [3] is supposed
to be a replacement for the Dashboard or that the Dashboard is going
away.
To clear up any potential confusion: Wiki Education will keep
supporting Programs & Events Dashboard as part of our commitment to
making our technology work as useful as possible to the rest of the
Wikimedia movement. Our newly-expanded Technology department, along
with many awesome volunteers and interns, is more committed than ever
to improving the Dashboard as tool for global programs, because it's
been so essential for many of you.
Programs & Events Dashboard recently passed the milestone of 4,000
programs, from more than 100 different wikis, and more than 28,000
editors have logged in [4].
For those who haven't used it before, or haven't done so in a while,
some of the useful features include:
* Account registration for in-person edit-a-thons — to avoid getting
stopped by the IP limit for new accounts
* Automatically updated metrics for articles edited, number of edits,
Commons uploads, etc. [5]
* Additional downloadable metrics, including 7-day retention of new
editors, the complete list of edits made
* For English and Portuguese Wikipedia, tools for monitoring which
articles are involved in deletion processes [6]
* Translatable, wiki-editable training modules for newcomers [7]
* For all the languages with ORES "article quality" models, extra data
and visualizations based on ORES estimates
We have some additional features planned for the near future as well:
* Metrics for number of citations added
* Wikidata metrics for claims created and references added
If you have feature requests or complaints, please do let us know
either on the Meta talk page [8] or by opening an issue on GitHub [9].
Our team is small, so we rely heavily on the feedback we get from
Programs & Events Dashboard users to identify problems and make
improvements.
-Sage Ross
Wiki Education
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[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Programs_and…
[2]
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
[3]
https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/
[4]
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/usage
[5]
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_ZA/Wiki_Loves_Afric…
[6]
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/artfeminism_2019/alerts
[7]
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia/editing-ba…
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard
[9]
https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard/issues/new/choo…