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@wikimedia.org To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. analytics@lists.wikimedia.org, acs@bitergia.com acs@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!