Talk:Community metrics/Archive 1

Fishing expeditions
To avoid problems associated with data analysis, you may want to describe your problem statements/hypotheses first. - Amgine (talk) 16:07, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Very good point! A first stab to the fish: User:Qgil/MediaWiki Community Metrics.--Qgil (talk) 16:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

People

 * Total amount of accounts.
 * Active in the past 12 months.
 * New accounts in the last month.
 * From these, how many filed a bug or comment.


 * Top bug reporters (total, last year, last month).
 * Top bug fixers (total, 12 months, last month).

Activity

 * Total amount of bugs reported & by resolution
 * Total bugs by component: see Bugzilla taxonomy.
 * Open bugs by product.
 * Changed resolution in the last 12 months
 * Changed resolution in the last month
 * NEW, ASSIGNED, RESOLVED over time.
 * Average time of resolution (Fixed, Invalid, etc).
 * In the past year.
 * In the past month.


 * New comments (total, last year, last month).

New bugs

 * Created in the last 12 months.


 * Created in the last month.
 * Average time to response to new bugs.
 * In the past year.
 * In the past month.

Stale bugs
Still open
 * More than 3 months.
 * More than 1 year
 * More than 3 years

Open and silent
 * More than 3 months
 * More than 1 year
 * More than 3 years

What is the MediaWiki community?
Might be a good idea to define that before you start asking questions about it :-)

Are you talkint about the community of MediaWiki developers, or MediaWiki reusers (as in: people who are involved in operating a MediaWiki site in some form), or MediaWiki users (as in: anyone who is a registered and active user of a MediaWiki wiki), or the community around MediaWiki.org specifically? The proposed metrics seems to concentrate on the first and the last (there is no mention of e.g. number of MediaWiki installations worldwide, which is a good metric of how large the wider MediaWiki community is), in which case it might be clearer to call it the Wikimedia tech community. --Tgr (talk) 01:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * So far, it seems to be simply defined as "all those who care about improving MediaWiki": does it need to be more than this? It means not only using it but also filing and triaging bugs, working on code, improving documentation on this wiki (is there some metrics on this wiki). Wikimedians are not the only ones editing this wiki, and the more users we have the more bug reports will presumably be filed; not to mention corporate users which contribute code, of course. --Nemo 02:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)