Hello everyone,
I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10 that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned from new developers focused activities in the previous quarter (July-September 2017).
If you have questions and feedback that you would like to share with us, please add them on the discussion https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10 page.
To receive a notification when a new report is published, subscribe here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Newsletter/11/subscribe.
We plan to release a report every quarter and take action items identified from the key findings for improving our existing methods and processes. The next release will be in January 2018.
If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, we will be more than happy to hear them!
Thanks,
Srishti
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi ssethi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly Report that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned from new developers focused activities in the previous quarter (July-September 2017).
If you have questions and feedback that you would like to share with us, please add them on the discussion page.
To receive a notification when a new report is published, subscribe here.
We plan to release a report every quarter and take action items identified from the key findings for improving our existing methods and processes. The next release will be in January 2018.
If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, we will be more than happy to hear them!
Thanks,
Srishti
From the report:
Percentage of volunteers active one year (± 3 months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago (between April–June >2016). (Source: Calculation on data)
QoQ: -26.5%. YoY: -60.0%
That's kind of scary....
-- bawolff
Quite disconcerting indeed....
DJ
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi ssethi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly Report that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned from new developers focused activities in the previous quarter (July-September 2017).
If you have questions and feedback that you would like to share with us, please add them on the discussion page.
To receive a notification when a new report is published, subscribe here.
We plan to release a report every quarter and take action items identified from the key findings for improving our existing methods and processes. The next release will be in January 2018.
If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, we will be more than happy to hear them!
Thanks,
Srishti
From the report:
Percentage of volunteers active one year (± 3 months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago (between April–June >2016). (Source: Calculation on data)
QoQ: -26.5%. YoY: -60.0%
That's kind of scary....
-- bawolff
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On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 11:12 +0000, Brian Wolff wrote:
From the report:
Percentage of volunteers active one year (± 3 months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago (between April–June >2016). (Source: Calculation on data)
QoQ: -26.5%. YoY: -60.0%
That's kind of scary....
Maybe less scary in absolute numbers: 2016Q3: 5 out of 39 = 12.82% 2016Q4: 2 out of 53 = 3.77% 2017Q1: 3 out of 63 = 4.76% 2017Q2: 3 out of 43 = 6.98% 2017Q3: 2 out of 39 = 5.13%
andre
Thanks Srishti & DevRel team, that was interesting, and it's great to see that developer retention gets the organizational focus it deserves.
Some comments on the document:
We currently struggle to keep track of information about new developers
such as project they worked on, their contact details (e.g., Phabricator, Gerrit, and Github username), etc.
FWIW this is a problem with all developers, not just new ones. For example after I find out who is the best person to ask about something, there isn't really way to find out their IRC account. (Or vice versa, know who I've just talked with on IRC.) Phabricator can be linked to mediawiki.org and wikitech but few people do both. And so on. The WMF has its private contact list, but even that is not always updated, and it's unaccessible to volunteers. It would be great to have a proper, public contact info management system somewhere.
Re: surveys, it would be a missed opportunity to only survey new developers. The limitation in that is that only a small fraction of them become regulars, and it would be great to understand better what personality trait or circumstance determines whether a given person stays or leaves, but the only way to find that out is to survey people whom we already know remained (or left) about their experiences as new developers.
Re: retention (the raw numbers for which can be found in T160430#3395405), apparently year-on-year for Q3 2017 is interpreted as "(developers who started in 2016 Q3 and were still active in 2017 Q3 / all developers who started in 2016 Q3) / (developers who started in 2015 Q3 and were still active in 2016 Q3 / all developers who started in 2015 Q3)" which is a weird definition. YoY should be the difference in retention between two full years, not between two quarters spaced one year apart.
One thing that jumps out looking at the list of retained developers is how many of them are experienced Wikipedians (at a glance, something like two-thirds?). Which I guess is not that surprising, but I wonder to what extent is it reflected in the outreach strategy?
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Srishti Sethi ssethi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10 that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned from new developers focused activities in the previous quarter (July-September 2017).
If you have questions and feedback that you would like to share with us, please add them on the discussion https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10 page.
To receive a notification when a new report is published, subscribe here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Newsletter/11/subscribe.
We plan to release a report every quarter and take action items identified from the key findings for improving our existing methods and processes. The next release will be in January 2018.
If you have any questions, comments, and concerns, we will be more than happy to hear them!
Thanks,
Srishti
-- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation
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