On 07/13/2013 04:49 PM, Katie Chan wrote:
On 13/07/2013 14:34, Finne Boonen wrote:
I noticed you're not tracking the dates for affiliation? People change jobs or move
from a volunteer to a paid position etc.
That. As someone who works for a chapter, according to instructions I
have to declare my affiliation to said chapter. However, my
contributions pre-date my employment AND even in the future, would be
done strictly in a volunteer capacity as completely unrelated to what
I'm employed for.
The good news is that (as far as I understood) Metrics Grimoire (the OSS
that powers our metrics) allows us to define affiliations within periods
of time.
The not so good news is that all this data needs to be introduced
manually by the admins, which makes this task not very scalable.
Therefore we are currently doing what we can. Please specify this data
in the form anyway.
Hopefully one day you will be able to define these affiliation time
frames from your profile, à la LinkedIn, updating at the same time the
metrics database - see
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51050
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil