We have a very early version of a community metrics dashboard! See the
details below or jump directly to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics
Even if the main discussion and work will happen at the Analytics
mailing list, there are some initial questions that you should be aware
of, and you should helps answering:
* Do we need to scan ALL the git repositories at
wikimedia.org or are
there any that we could/should avoid?
* Do we need to scan ALL the Bugzilla products or... (the same).
* What mailing lists are worth scanning?
At some point we will also have individual statistics. We plan to
identify WMF employees to help answering the old question about how many
WMF-nonWMF contributors we have and what is the trend. Do you think it
is a good idea to allow or encourage everybody to define their org?
How do you feel about statistics per country, meaning that contributors
would define where are they based?
These are the bigger questions. There are more at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Metrics_dashboard
Please answer there. Thank you!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Introducing Wikimedia tech community metrics
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:29:28 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has
an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
acs(a)bitergia.com <acs(a)bitergia.com>
Hi, today we are starting officially a new project to gather automatic
metrics from the Wikimedia tech / MediaWiki community:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Metrics_dashboard
We have a dashboard in an interim location, moving to Labs soon:
http://bitergia.com/projects/mediawiki-dashboard/browser/
The immediate steps (end of this week?) are:
* Moving to Labs. :)
* Scan the sources we want to scan for git repositories, Bugzilla
products and mailing lists.
Then we will follow with (end of this month?)
* Agreeing with the community what data to gather about contributors.
* Polish the list of contributors e.g. assigning to people their
different handlers.
Gerrit and IRC metrics are on the way (end of August?). I also expect
improvements in the interface, based on our feedback... and our patches
This dashboard is based on the open source projects Metrics Grimoire and
VizGrimoire. Other organizations (prominently OpenStack) are using it as
well so more features might come from other stakeholders.
We are working with Bitergia (maintainers or the Grimoire software and
other FLOSS metrics related projects) as contractors. Álvaro del
Castillo (CCed) is the main contact with the team.
The current contract will run during the next 12 months. The Engineering
Community team of the WMF is pushing this effort, and I'm coordinating
it. However, this clearly belongs to the Analytics team area. We have
agreed to hand over the project at some point during the next 6-12 months.
We will use the Analytics mailing list to inform and discuss this
project. Your feedback and help is welcome!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil