[Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

[Bala Jeyaraman]

>> It is a pitiful sight to see bright talented campus ambassadors and
seasoned well-respected editors go back and forth like this

Pranav,

:-). I am not taking this personally. Hard questions need to be asked and i
will ask them whatever the CAs feel about the tone. These need to be asked.
I find it extremely troubling, after all the harsh words and heat the
previous mailing thread generated and what the regular editors cleaning up
in IEP have been saying onwiki,  the lessons learnt initiative ignores such
vital issues.

There is no disputing the fact that the IEP caused tremendous amount of
cleanup work - to the point of overwhelming NPP and CCI projects. Backlogs
increased greatly in both projects. Emergency requests had to be sent out
for editors to come and help witht he cleanup. If a lessons learnt document
doesnt talk abou its impact on the regular functioning of the wikipedia, i
will point that out.


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav <
> ramshankaryadav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Bala,
>> I'm  glad that you came up with few more questions but most of them are
>> in negative tone.
>> We would love to have few questions from you pointing on few of the good
>> things as well.
>>
>> Please don't mind, it's not personal.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ram
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Somethings vital that are missing:
>>>
>>> 1) How many regular editors were required to clean up the articles. How
>>> many reverts/cleanup edits were required to clean up after the IEP students.
>>> 2) How many admin actions/interventions were required - warnings,
>>> blocks, mergers, deletions, AFDs
>>> 3) How many regular volunteer hours were spent on this project.
>>> 4) How much did the new page patrollers (NPP) backlog increase because
>>> of IEP
>>> 5) How much did the copyright cleanup investigations (CCI) backlog
>>> increase because of IEP
>>> 6) How long is it going to take to clean everything up. What do the
>>> NPP/CCI project members feel about the extra workload.
>>> 7) What was the impact on the existing en wiki community. How their
>>> attitude towards such a program has been damaged.
>>>
>>> A supplimentary question:
>>> Are kudpung, moonriddengirl, fluffernutter, Voceditenore, spacemanspiff
>>> et al being interviewed?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nitika <ntandon at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > We want to collate data points to be able to analyze and draw out
>>>> trends.
>>>> > Here is an example of data that we're trying to dig out (and this is
>>>> just a
>>>> > sub-set of a preliminary list)
>>>>
>>>> Sharing the entire list of data points would be a nice thing to have.
>>>> If it is possible.
>>>>
>>>> > What's the amount of data that students have added to Wikipedia?
>>>> What's the
>>>> > amount of data that got reverted? What's the net amount of
>>>> information that
>>>> > the students have added on Wikipedia?
>>>>
>>>> The above should lend themselves to instrumentation and should be
>>>> somewhat trivially available.
>>>>
>>>> > How many students edited articles outside of their in-class
>>>> assignments?
>>>>
>>>> This is an interesting and non-trivial question. Which prompts me to
>>>> ask - why would you want to track this ?
>>>>
>>>> > How many student's got warnings on their talk pages? How many students
>>>> > corrected their errors after these warnings?
>>>> > How many students got blocked? / How many students got blocked more
>>>> than
>>>> > once?
>>>>
>>>> Again, the above should be easily instrumented. At least, the initial
>>>> nature of the questions look that way.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
>>>> <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
>>>>
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