Hello everyone!
*As many of you may remember, the Program Evaluation and Design team
invited program leaders, such as yourselves, to voluntarily participate in
our first Data Collection Survey. Thank you for your participation!* As a
pilot survey, it has provided us insight into what you are tracking
regarding data in the programs you implement, and how we can better support
you in order to evaluate the impact your programs are making.
We have been looking at that data for our current focus programs:
edit-a-thons, Wikipedia editing workshops, GLAM content donations, on-wiki
writing contests, Wiki Loves Monuments and other photography initiatives.*
When the survey closed, we had responses from 23 program leaders from
around the world, who reported on 64 total programmatic activities. Our
team also collected data from 54 additional programmatic activities, to
fill out areas where we had gaps in reporting.*
*We're excited to announce that we have our first draft report ready for
you to. It includes data reported and collected about edit-a-thons:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Edit-a-t…
We evaluated the impact edit-a-thons are having based on their goals, which
often include the creation of content on wiki, and the recruitment and
retention of new editors. This report is not final and we would like to
improve it over time.* Since this is our first time doing a report like
this, we want your feedback.*
*After you take the time to read the report, we would like your feedback on
the talk page about:*
- Whether the report is understandable and written in a way that makes
it useful to you
- What kind of information you would like to see more of / less of
- What we could do to improve the collection of data (e.g. would you
rather like to send us your cohort data and let us do the analyis? – this
might help with reducing your workload)
- Any other feedback you have.
*Secondly, we want to know if program leaders have more impactful or better
quality data than is reported here.* We had a lot of great data come
through, but, we also know, with 26 edit-a-thons being reported, there are
a lot more out there doing this specific kind of event. So please tell us:*Can
you do better than is reported here?* This is a chance to brag and
celebrate the work you've been doing, but didn't perhaps get a chance to
report during this first survey. We can't wait to hear back from you!
*So, in case you have run an edit-a-thon that you think was more successful
than any other edit-a-thon already included in our report*, please send a
quick email to sarah(a)wikimedia.org and I will follow up with you on the
next steps.
Over the next couple of weeks we'll be publishing additional reports, using
your feedback. Thank you so much for your time and contributions. And if
you need anything, feel free to email me or contact me on wiki.
Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator*
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