On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
To be fair, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2015/Wi... was useful for me to quickly extract a couple trivia/curiosities.
Other than that, I agree I wouldn't know how to use it for any meaningful evaluation, at least for the purposes I had when volunteering for WLM-IT. I didn't expect that though; defining the goals of WLM-IT and assessing our progress against them has always been our own burden that nobody can help with (especially given the very peculiar situation with Codice Urbani).
in my professional life i am doing a lot of "lean" and "agile" now. one of the main goals there is to do only things that "the client" would benefit of, as soon as possible. a client is always the "end user", never some intermediary, or administrative person. one of the indicators there is to minimize the seven wastes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda_%28Japanese_term%29
when i am seeing such an evaluation report i try to fit that somehow in this agile world. who the client would be. maybe the wikipedia readers, or the editors using commons images? then i try to imagine what benefit they have from this report. and i try to imaging what would happen if this report would not be there. to my shame i must admit i cannot come up with anything reasonable *blush*. anybody of you got a little more fantasy about benefits ?
rupert.