[Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Asaf Bartov, 25/01/2014 03:12:
> Thanks!  The most interesting datum I've noticed so far is the rate of
> active editor (5+ edits/month) retention among new contributors after
> six months, which is about 0.4%.

Is "active editor retention" a metric defined somewhere?
It's not in 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WMF_standardized_editor_classes>.

>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/WLM#New_users
>
> That (along with the easy-to-measure and already known sheer quanities
> of photos generated) seems to me to be the most robust number to use in
> evaluating WLM (and comparable) funding requests.  0.4% may be
> considered worthwhile or not enough, depending on local contexts, so I'm
> not drawing a universal conclusion from it, just noting it.

See http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/wiki-loves-monuments-footprint/ 
for more.

Nemo