Thank you Christophe. This mail is really useful and I really hope, as Pine said, you will be able to share some of the documentation in English. It would be really helpful for chapters to understand these issues and, above all, the solutions.

Aubrey

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

Merci Christophe - very useful and echoes many issues WMUK experienced.

On 12 April 2014 20:38, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:

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Hi Christophe,

Thank you for these interesting emails. I'm cc'ing Anasuya on this discussion with the hope that what you've learned can be disseminated to other Wikimedia affiliates, especially new or aspiring chapters.

Is the decision matrix that you use for your programs available in English? I would like to have a copy of it on Meta along with these emails.

I am interested in this subject partly because of the discussion about WMF's Annual Plan and partly because there are occasional discussions about forming a new thematic organization or chapter in my region.

Thanks,

Pine

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Thanks Christophe,

The metrics are easy to understand, I like their simplicity. This makes your goals easy to track, such as both number of volunteer hours and numbers of volunteers being used to analyse volunteer involvement.

It would be neat if all chapters were to make these standard, cheap and easy to understand measurements available centrally, as year by year trend charts so that everyone can see the long term impact (or non-impact) of changes, such as changing employee numbers or chapter membership. As with most organizations, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees, especially once we are locked in a 12-month cycle of bidding and funding and the 3 year plus trend is then never worth reporting, as the FDC did not ask for it.

Fae

On 15 April 2014 09:54, Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I will try to put up the matrix and its documentation in english on meta later this week. You can find the matrix itsel in english there on meta : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim%...

As said before, this is a first step. It is far from being perfect, but it's the first step. Now we have something to build on and draw experience from.

Thanks to all the person that said this feedback was interesting. We will try to make such reports, more governance oriented than program oriented, more oftenly to keep you up to date with what works and what doesn't.

All the best,

Christophe

On 14 April 2014 16:27, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:

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Thank you Christophe. This mail is really useful and I really hope, as Pine said, you will be able to share some of the documentation in English. It would be really helpful for chapters to understand these issues and, above all, the solutions.

Aubrey

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:

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Merci Christophe - very useful and echoes many issues WMUK experienced.

On 12 April 2014 20:38, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:

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Hi Christophe,

Thank you for these interesting emails. I'm cc'ing Anasuya on this discussion with the hope that what you've learned can be disseminated to other Wikimedia affiliates, especially new or aspiring chapters.

Is the decision matrix that you use for your programs available in English? I would like to have a copy of it on Meta along with these emails.

I am interested in this subject partly because of the discussion about WMF's Annual Plan and partly because there are occasional discussions about forming a new thematic organization or chapter in my region.

Thanks,

Pine

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