I am a little disappointed at the focus by WMF staff on quantitative
metrics over everything else, which I think may have the unfortunate
side-effect of encouraging entities to go after easily measurable
activities rather than the most effective and worthwhile activities.
Hopefully this will be taken into account on future assessments.
It is quick to target the easily measurable, but will it actually bring us
forward? Activities and outputs are only a means to an end. So instead of
setting the focus on "easily measurable" means, I would personally prefer a
focus on building up the movement's knowledge about sustainable outcomes
and on how to get there.
--
Manuel Merz
Stabsstelle Evaluation / Evaluation Unit
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72, 10963 Berlin, Germany
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
2013/6/12 Craig Franklin
cfranklin@halonetwork.net
> Given that this is an assessment that is being performed by paid staff, I
> think it's unreasonable to think that the staff would issue more than very
> mild criticism ("Your report is so great it makes everyone else look
> terrible!"), even if the report was so poor as to deserve criticism. I'm
> not saying that it *is*, but I don't think anyone that values their job
> would carpet their employer in a public forum, even if the employer invited
> them to do so. There should certainly be a note in this report to declare
> the massive COI involved in having WMF staff 'critically' assessing a WMF
> report.
>
> That said, I do find the assessment for everyone else useful in terms of
> seeing what the WMF staff will think, and I'm sure that chapters
> considering an FDC application will take that on board. I am a little
> disappointed at the focus by WMF staff on quantitative metrics over
> everything else, which I think may have the unfortunate side-effect of
> encouraging entities to go after easily measurable activities rather than
> the most effective and worthwhile activities. Hopefully this will be taken
> into account on future assessments.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig Franklin
>
>
>
> On 12 June 2013 20:52, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Katy Love, 11/06/2013 22:52:
> >
> >> [2]
> >>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/**
> >> 2012-2013_round1/Staff_**summary/Progress_report_form/**Q1<
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff_s...
> >
> >>
> >
> > Funny: «WMF notes [stats]», «WMFR claims [stats]».
> >
> > Nemo
> >
> >
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