Grants talk:IEG/The Wikipedia Library/Final
Source for usage increases on Wikipedia
editI have absolutely loved getting to understand your project, and I am really excited for the potential this project has to improve Wikipedias globally at scale! Very awesome. One quick question I have is how you measured the increases in usage of the different sources available. The report says 300-600% increase, and I'm curious (a) the tool used to collect these, (b) methodology in calculating (i.e., what the cut-off dates were?), and (c) which numbers correspond to which donations (e.g., I know 600% is Credo, but what about the others?). I am in the process of preparing an overview of the IEG round 1 grants, so I want to make sure to get the facts straight, as well as to provide access to the tools used for self-evaluation. Thanks!! Jwild (talk) 23:35, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Hey Jessie! Johnuniq is doing our metrics. We collect them on metrics subpages:
- As I understand it, there's an external link dump which he queries for a partial url and then counts these per month both before and after the start of the program. We don't have Cochrane metrics yet as those are fairly new (we try to run reports every 6 months, but will get better at that next round, aiming for every 3 months using an automated report hosted on Labs).
- These are aggregate numbers, so we can't prove the growth is a result of the donations of their promotion. We also don't control for the baseline growth of links on the site and benchmark against that. In other words, our numbers are a reasonable metric of relative change, but we don't claim to account for all of that growth in a causal sense.
- We also have some per user data from the survey where editors estimated how many times they had individually used each source. We had 200 editors surveyed out of 2000, so you could play around with this for another way of counting (which we didn't do).
- Let me know if I can answer any other questions. Cheers, Jake Ocaasi (talk) 02:22, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! VERY helpful! Jwild (talk) 21:13, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Approval of this final report
editHi Jake, As you know, I've been closely reviewing this grant, including your final report and your Extension request. I'm delighted by the work you and the TWL team have done in the past six months. Congratulations to all of you, and especially to you, for a great idea and its execution!
I left a number of questions on your Extension Request talk page about the next steps, and you answered them in great detail. My key question on evaluation measures you've already responded to with your reply to Jessie. Based on your well-structured and clear final report, as well as your thoughtful responses to the questions on the extension request and here, I'm pleased to approve your final report. I'll ask Siko to make the administrative changes necessary that will demonstrate this. :-) Thanks! ASengupta (WMF) (talk) 14:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Grant renewal, and receipts
editOcaasi: As we're renewing this IEG, we'll just rollover the remaining $67.56 from this phase into the renewal, deducting that amount from your next disbursement. Please do send Winifred all remaining documentation of expenses from the first phase asap. Congrats on all that you've accomplished so far! Siko (WMF) (talk) 18:49, 27 January 2014 (UTC)