Hi all,
For a while now I've been thinking about different ways to define and measure the Wikimedia movement's impact. This started for me with various conversations about different iterations of the WMF's Global Metrics and different rounds of FDC bids, but it turns out to be wider than that.
This is a big and thorny topic and one where we seem to have come up with a lot of implicit answers without spending much time thinking about in any detail, so I've written up my thoughts as a meta-essay here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:The_Land/Thinking_about_the_impact_of_t...
I'd be really interested to hear other peoples' views!
Chris
(User:The Land)