-- Jaime Anstee, Ph.D Senior Strategist & Affiliations Committee Liaison Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6869 www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sati Houston shouston@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 AM Subject: Announcement - Review of Global Metrics To: affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Jaime Anstee janstee@wikimedia.org Hello All, My name is Sati Houston and I work within the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm writing to let you know that the Community Resources team, in conjunction with the Program Capacity & Learning team[1], is embarking on a retrospective and update of Global Metrics, with the goals of: - (1) understanding how useful the current metrics are to grantees, Committee members, WMF staff and the broader movement. - (2) understanding the major issues with the current metrics. - (3) understanding how those issues could be addressed. You can find more information here about the project and how you can provide public or private feedback here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_metrics/Review It's important to highlight that we are *not* running this as a Request for Comment (RfC) or consultation, where we have already identified a problem, set of solutions and are asking for community commentary. Instead, this retrospective focuses on gather systematic feedback across all who have used / been involved with Global Metrics. Based on that feedback, we will summarize the issues that we've heard - from grantees, Committee members, and even WMF staff - and then openly design solutions to address those problems. Again, you can find more information about the different phases of the project - collecting feedback, designing solutions, choosing what to implement - here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_metrics/Review *If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Sati Houston (shouston@wikimedia.org shouston@wikimedia.org) or Jaime Anstee (janstee@wikimedia.org janstee@wikimedia.org)*, as we are the main points of contact for this review of Global Metrics. Thank you in advance for your feedback. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions! Best, Sati [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Capacity_and_Learning