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

[Birgitte SB]

--- SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> ________

Active editor metrics should probably vary based on
the maturity of the comunity.  Many of the various
communities have barely existed for an entire year.

Birgitte SB

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