Research:Measuring mission success

Contact

Halfak (WMF)

Wikimedia Foundation

Denny

Google

DarTar

Wikimedia Foundation

TNegrin (WMF)

Wikimedia Foundation

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Research:Projects

This page documents a proposed research project.
Information may be incomplete and may change before the project starts.

In the August 20 2014 Signpost Op-Ed, a metric based on the success with regards to WMF Wikimedia's mission was suggested. On this page we will organize the creation and discussion of such a metric. You are welcome to join!

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Mission success (widely distributed, high value knowledge content; Jimmy Wales' version "the sum of all human knowledge available to all in their own language"; related to WMF mission)

• Value of content
  • Importance
    • [view rates], [inlinks/page rank], [human assessed]
  • Production
    • Contribution
      • [edits], [bytes added], [images uploaded], [statements sourced]
    • Quality
      • persistence (implied review, given enough eyeballs, i.e. pageviews that can perform easy actions)
        • content persistence
        • reverts
        • article survival
        • project quality assessments like featured or good articles, and others
    • Content coverage
      • [language with article]
      • ???
• Distribution of content
  • Consumption
    • Consumption rates
      • [view], [redist. views], ???
    • Consumers
      • [unique viewers]
  • Availability
    • Cost of access
      • [internet/median income], [distribution of Wikipedia Zero]
  • Language
    • Available language/language speaker