Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!

Important updates on Learning and Evaluation:

== Beyond Wikimetrics - Virtual-meet up: July 16 ==

This online meeting [1] is the first in a series of three sessions that will be hosted by Jonathan Morgan, Learning Strategist of our Learning & Evaluation team. ‘Beyond Wikimetrics’ is a series that will present a step-by-step guide to using databases and APIs for evaluation and research. The workshop will teach you how to use MySQL to make your own queries, and will also go over some tools on Wikimedia Labs. If you have questions about how are people editing wiki projects, post them on the event page!

== New Wikimetrics demo available: Metrics for Education Programs ==

Tighe Flanagan, Wikipedia Education Program Manager, hosts this demonstration video on using Wikimetrics.. This 20 minutes video [2] walks you through a running a report on an uploaded cohort, spreadsheet formatting, and basic analysis in the context of an education program cohort.

== Evaluation Pulse ==

After a year of program evaluation workshops, activities and resources developed, we kindly invite you to take part in our Evaluation Pulse survey to briefly feedback on evaluation strategies, resources, and supports. We will be launching the survey at the end of next week. Be sure to watch your inbox for your invitation to participate.

== Virtual Meet-Ups Agenda: Send your Suggestions! ==

In the coming months we have slated some interesting virtual meet-ups on topics from tools and strategies for accessing data about online content and participation to setting targets, goals, and reporting. The aim of these meet-ups is to promote and share evaluation strategies and resources with our broad community of program leaders and evaluators. If you have suggestions for future topics or if you wish to present your evaluation work at an upcoming meet-up, please reach out to us! You can post your comments on our portal discussion page [3] or email us at eval@wikimedia.org.

As always, stay up-to-date by watching the news page [4] and connecting on our portal [5].