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

[Jaime Anstee]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> 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
>>
>> >>Yes -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions#Active_editor

>>Thank you for asking, and mentioning that it is not linked in the
section.  I will reference that link there.  I would like to point out that
the overview page to the set of reports does contain a lot of important
information about how things were defined and are reported in each programs
evaluation report.



> 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.
>>
>
> >>>>I find the return rate for the next event even more interesting!

>>>>Yes, it is important to remember that there are many other potential
outcomes that have not been measured and are not included in this first
round of evaluation reporting.

See http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/wiki-loves-monuments-footprint/ for
> more.
>
> >>Thank you for sharing this link

Jaime

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