Some smart words about the generalities of data turnout
Response rates and data quality/limitations
We received only one direct report through our pilot survey, from one program leader. It was a WikiExpedition. In order to expand our evaluation, we mined additional data from five initiatives. This included three Wiki Loves Public Art, one Wiki Takes, and the Festivalsommer pilot project. We collected publicly available data from wiki's and blogs to gather our data. We were able to collect data about: participant count, photos uploaded, photos used in projects, and photo quality (Featured pictures, Quality images, Valued images). We were able to collect budget data for three events and hour inputs for two events. You can read more about our supplemental data mining here. We were unable to provide reporting about replication and shared learning due to low reporting.
As with all the program report data reviewed in this report, report data were often partial and incomplete, please refer to the notes, if any, in the bottom left corner of each graph below.
Priority goals
Program leaders for both Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo upload initiatives reported twelve priority goals, with the two most popular focusing on bringing awareness to more people about Wikimedia projects and having fun.
We asked program leaders to select their priority goals for Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo upload initiatives. We provided 18 priority goals with an additional 19th option to report on "other" goals. They could select as many or as few as they saw fit. Five of the program leaders (100%) who reported on both WLM and other photo initiatives selected priority goals, since there were so few direct reports and photo upload events have overlapping priority goals we analyzed all responses together. Those five selected between four and 14 priority goals for each of their events.[1] While many goals were selected by the majority of the reporting program leaders, two goals stood out as priority across implementers. The top two goals, selected by four of the five program leaders, were to (1) Increasing awareness of Wikimedia and its projects and (2) Making contributing fun (see table below):
