[Foundation-l] Dreams, goals, and milestones (1 of 3)

[SJ]

On 9/21/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's one I came up with recently.  Five edits in a month is not a good
> measure of "community".  400 edits lifetime and 100 edits a year shows
> more of a commitment to a project than five edits in a month, which
> could easily be a driveby editor who does not hang around.  I'm
> considering running another stats run at 100 lifetime and 25 per year,
> since I think the higher number shortchanges the community size of
> smaller projects.  (Almost half of our projects have no active editors
> by the 400/100 standard.)

Interesting.  It seems to me that community is proportional to
attention and interest, not to edit count.  Until we have measures of
this, we are discounting the active readers and lurkers who edit only
occasionally.  On the other hand, we are overcounting people who edit
on more than one project.

I look forward to single login, a decent user survey, and better metrics.

SJ