On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Maria Cruz mcruz@wikimedia.org wrote:
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All in all it is good to have something 'to shoot at' but I would prefer that these reports are produces more in concert with the stakeholders involved and affected, rather than 'announced' and 'presented' to the
wide
community.
This isn't true. We always reach out to program leaders to engage in data collection. Further, had you taken part of the event, or even watched it, or read the blog we wrote [6], you would have seen nothing is presented or announced, rather, open for discussion and conversation.
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Sure, the team did reach out in the collection phase - after all, without the data such evaluation would be impossible. But after that, the conclusions were drafted and shared with the wide community, rather than with the stakeholders involved to discuss interpretation. And I do admit for not watching the full video (the event itself was during working hours in Europe - not compatible with my job) but only watching parts of it - and it had a high presentation level to me. But maybe I was unlucky in that. Either way, all communication seemed to be aimed to announce the evaluation, rather than to ask active input on whether the analysis made sense, whether there were misunderstandings, etc. But maybe you have had a lot of follow-up discussions with the people you collected data from on a 1-to-1 level, which would be admirable.
Again, I do appreciate the effort, I don't agree with the approach and process.
Best, Lodewijk