Talk:Learning and Evaluation/Archives/2016

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  • Hello, as everybody is concerned about the gender gap I was wondering why Wikimetrics does not offer a metric than gives a glance of the gender of a list of users. As the API can do this it should be technically feasible to add this feature to this useful tool and so make it even more useful. It is just a proposal to think about. --Poco a poco (talk) 15:00, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Because the API can't tell you anything about the users' gender, which MediaWiki knows nothing about. MediaWiki only knows about grammatical gender preferences. Nemo 17:27, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
      • Well, Nemo, that's pretty close isn't it? I assume that if a person would like to be called per she, then it is a she. Many will surely not revel the gender and will not change that preference, but those who did could give a hint about the gender split in a list of users. It was just an idea. --Poco a poco (talk) 22:06, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Strange metrics

Hi. The metrics

  • # of participants editing X months after the event
  • # of participants who are active editors (5 edits/month) X months after an event

look extremely strange to me. If it were about new users then they would make perfect sense to me — it would be the numbers which show how many newcomers who started editing because of the contest got retained in the community. But the current edition I can paraphrase as "# of active Wikipedians who did not cease editing Wikipedia as a result of participating in the contest". Does that make any sense? Though some editors burning out as a result of partaking in contest might be a risk, I do not believe it should be considered an expected outcome and thus be measured for each contest. Can someone please provide an explanation what are these metrics expected to show? --Base (talk) 15:22, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for asking, Base. These metrics are meant to measure the retention of editors after an event — both engagement of newcomers and continued participation or reactivation of existing editors. The metric is more "number of participants who continue to edit or become active editors" rather than "number of active editors who continue editing". Does that help? If not, please do ask more. Abittaker (WMF) (talk) 19:29, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

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