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.
+1
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.
Cheers,
Manuel
--
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(a)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(a)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_…
Funny: «WMF notes [stats]», «WMFR claims [stats]».
Nemo
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