Grants talk:Project/Harej/Librarybase: an online reference library/Midpoint

Quick help with global metrics

Dear Harej,

It's been a while since we connected! I don't know if you will get this message, but I wanted to ask you if you might be able to help me with a question about converting your reported metrics in this report into a format that is compatible with the Wikimedia Foundation's global metrics. You've provided some numbers about data quality improvements that I'm not totally sure how to interpret. It may be the data doesn't translate to our metrics, but maybe you could let me know what you think.

We track:

• Content pages created or improved across Wikimedia Projects
• New editors (newly registered users)
• Total participants

I think the new editors metric isn't applicable to the grant, but content pages created or improved may be. I'm not totally clear about how to relate the constraint violation data you reported, because I don't fully grasp what happens in response to the violations. Are they resolved in some way that improves the data actually on Wikidata? Is there any way for me to know how many improvements or additions happened on Wikidata directly as a result of the violations that were flagged? This may not be discernible, and if that's the case, no worries.

Lastly, I wonder if you have any insight into total participants? For context, in Project Grants it's not unusual for the total number of participants for software projects to be 1 (the developer).

Thanks for your help with this!

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 15:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mjohnson, in a handful of cases constraint violations are fixed by changing the rules of the constraint, but in the vast majority of cases, you fix one constraint violation by making one edit. I don't think this project engaged more than a handful of people. It'd be easier to just say I was the only participant. harej (talk) 23:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)