Maybe it is time to reconsider some of our standard metrics for wiki loves monuments.
One of the big gains in several countries has been to get a list of monuments into
Wikipedia maybe in future direct into wikidata. I think that the standard metrics should
reflect that, OK it is metadata, but our metrics should put more value on the metadata we
achieve.
Sometimes wiki loves monuments gives us lots more images of something we already have
reasonable pictures of. Sometimes it gives us images of notable monuments that we
don't yet have articles about. Or it gives us interior shots of a building that
already have a featured photo of the exterior.
I suggest we think of three metrics here:
How many monuments have we gone from no images to images?
How many monuments do we have better quality images for?
How many monuments do we have images for more of their features?
Number of images used is an over hasty metric, perhaps five years after the contest we
could measure this and get a very different statistic. Sometimes we need much more
patience to see how wikipedians will use materials over time. This is likely to be
especially true in countries where we don't currently have much coverage in terms of
articles.
Another way to tell the story is to give us examples of gaps that we have filled. For
example, the article on ******* church explained that it was listed as a national monument
because of the quality of the frescos inside it, as a result of WLM we now have photos of
those frescos available for the article.
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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:23:45 -0200
From: Rodrigo Padula <rodrigopadula(a)wikimedia.org.br>
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Enc: Re: WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers
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I see a lot of good results and contributions here and as pointed by Ilario, we reached
great part of our measures of success
WLM 2015
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-br
- 4.453 photos
- 411 uploaders
- 325 new users registered on commons
WLM 2014+2015
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wle-br
- 20 095 photos
- 2866 uploaders
- 2727 new users registered on commons
Only to complete, the first place on WLE 2014 was elected the second place on the WLE
2014 International and that same picture was selected in 7# place during the picture of
the year on commons.
Now in 2015 we have more pictures selected in the WLE international contest.
Including all the media coverage and all impact on social media, for a small User Group
approved in 2015, it's huge!!!
Rodrigo Padula
Coordenador de Projetos
Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa
http://www.wikimedia.org.br
21 99326-0558
---- Em Sáb, 31 Out 2015 15:43:49 -0200 Ilario Valdelli&lt;valdelli(a)gmail.com&gt;
escreveu ----
Again, and again.
"Success for whom"?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Community_Brazilian_Gr…
The section "measure of success" reports:
at least 400 participants uploading one photograph or more;
at least 5,000 photos uploaded;
at least 15% of photos used on Wikipedia;
at least 50% of new users engagement during the contest;
at least 10 new articles about natural heritage sites in Brasil;
at least 10% of new user retention after 2 months of the contest.
Rodrigo reports:
Pictures uploaded: 4.443
Uploaders: 411
New users registered on Commons: 325
New users engagement: 79%
Pictures user on Wikipedia: 86 (2%)
Are the goals reached? Basically yes. When the project has been financed
it was clear that the definition "success" was based on those measures.
There is no success for a specific person on an individual and personal
criteria.
The user group of Brazil has not asked nothing special, this is a normal
budget for any WLM or WLE in several countries.