Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/Quarterly check-ins/Audiences1 Notes May 2018

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Present (in the office): Victoria, Toby, Joady, Danny, Heather, Marshall, Neil, Trevor, Jaime, Heather, Joady, Megan, Katherine, Niharika, Trevor, Volker, Josh W., Joe M.

participating remotely: Subbu, Ryan K, Amir, Dayllan, Kartik, Leon, Niklas, Pau, Rummana, Shannon, Sydney, Tony Sebro, Maggie, Lisa G, Erica L, Subbu, Dan G, Erika B, Jazmin T, Nirzar, Quim G, Roan, Runa


Slide 6[edit]

  • KM: What are we doing with this?
  • DH: We are looking into right now.
  • NQ: This is an investigation we track for general awareness
  • VC: Is 2-month retention the right thing for us to be looking at?
  • NQ: Picture doesn't look that different if you adjust the time period.

Slide 8[edit]

  • KM: Can you clarify default option for new users?
  • DG: Varies on wiki by wiki basis. English Wikipedia is exception (VE is default).

Slide 9[edit]

  • KM: You published a second report. Can you talk more about the outcomes?
  • DG: Sure, I have some graphs in the next slides.

Slide 15[edit]

  • HW: What does successful mean?
  • DG: It's how many people saved their edit.
  • KM: What percentage of unsuccessful edits are because they are blocked?
  • DG: I can find that out.

Slide 16[edit]

*TN: We've hired a data analyst starting in a few weeks.

Slide 17[edit]

  • TN: nice to see editors use template styles for better mobile experiences.

Slide 21[edit]

  • Maggie: Any way to track. retention within a session?
  • Amir: Not currently but plan to do more analysis.
  • Maggie: Great that we are helping poeple find content and would be good to see impact.

Slide 24[edit]

  • VC: Waht's the gray vs blue?
  • Pau: Blue is published. Grey is in progress.
  • VC: Do we have data over longer period?
  • Pau: Yes, we have API and monthly reports.
  • Lisa: Data from 2015 to 2016?
  • Pau: There is a link at the bottom of the slide for more recent data.
  • Pau: Depending on language, there could be multiple content translations available.
  • VC: What's the situation with google translate?
  • Pau: With legal to examine external services. For technical side no issues but need to check licensing.
  • TN: We talked to Dan Foy. Expect update.

Slide 35[edit]

  • VC: Can we click on names and go to article? I remember seeing some interesting things in toolforge.
  • TN: Great example of some things community can do. It's not a priority based on resources.
  • RK: Users can add markers to maps to link to articles

Slide 45[edit]

KM: Community is very happy to see this.

Slide 46[edit]

  • MM: New users will have to submit new articles for the AFC
  • KM: Interested in social queues provided to community.
  • MM: looking at improving language provided to new users so they can navigate better. Communit wants us to focus on software.
  • KM: Let's offer to help review text.

Slide 69[edit]

* KM: Apologies to those who time got compressed. Really appreciate conversation.