Hi Sam,
I am sure there are figures and stories that the various orgs collect and publish. But they are spread across different wikis and websites and/or languages. E.g. many of the FDC orgs are looking into ways to demonstrate these more qualitative aspects of our work (e.g. by storytelling) in their reports. But these information does not get the same attention and publicity in the wider community as the evaluation done by the WMF. Many WMAT volunteers and I myself share the concerns expressed by Romaine that these unidimensional numbers and lack of context foster misconceptions or even prejudices especially in the parts of the community that are not closely involved in the work of the respective groups and orgs.
Best Claudia
Am 06.05.2015 um 13:40 schrieb Sam Klein:
Hi Romaine,
Are there other evals of WLM projects that capture the complexity you want?
Perhaps single-community evaluations done by the WLM organizers there?
Sam
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
In the past months the Wikimedia Foundation has been writing an evaluation about Wiki Loves Monuments. [1]
At such it is fine that WMF is writing an evaluation, however they fail in actual understanding Wiki Loves Monuments, and that is shown in the evaluation report.
As a result on the Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list a discussion grows about the various problems the evaluation has.
As the Learning and Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation already had released the first Programs Reports for Wiki Loves Monuments, we are now put as fait accompli with this evaluation report.
Therefore I am writing here so that the rest of the worldwide Wikimedia community is informed that this is not going right.
Wiki Loves Monuments is not just a bunch of uploads done in September, the report is too simplified without actual understanding how the community is doing this project.
Romaine
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