Wikimedia Product/Data dictionary

This page collects definitions of core metrics and quantitative annual plan goals of the Wikimedia Audiences department which are tracked by the Product Analytics team.

Core metrics
A set of key metrics designed to give a high-level picture of the movement's health. These are reported monthly to the Wikimedia Foundation board and at Wikimedia_Audiences, with further analysis in the quarterly metrics & insights presentations.

Contributors
The code that calculates these metrics can be found in the wikimedia-research/Editing-movement-metrics repository on Github.

Diversity (beta)
A set of contributors and readers metrics (defined above), restricted to:


 * Global South countries: definition
 * Mobile-heavy wikis: definition

Annual plan metrics and targets
Team-level and department-level goals derived from the 2018/19 Audiences annual plan.

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Web team
Advanced mobile contributions (AMC):
 * Mobile web edit rate on target wikis: 10% increase
 * List of target wikis
 * Mobile web edits are defined using the existing edit tag
 * Increase is measured using new AMC edit tag (example)
 * Retention rate for opt-in advanced mobile mode amongst medium and high-volume editors (100+ edits previous month): At least 60% retention
 * via instrumenting opt-in/opt-out button (data recorded in the PrefUpdate schema)
 * Retention period TBD
 * Moderation actions on mobile web on target wikis: 10% increase
 * Definition of "moderation action": T213461
 * Definition of target wikis: see above

For more links to implementation tasks and technical details, see this overview task.

iOS team

 * Total iOS app edit count: 10% increase
 * Editor retention (exact definition TBD as of March 2019): 10% increase

See Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Editing_program for details.

Android team

 * Total Android app edit count (mirroring iOS definition): 10% increase
 * Android Contributor Retention Rate (exact definition TBD as of March 2019): 10% increase
 * New Editor Acquisitions, defined as first-time edits on the Android app: 10% increase

Anti-Harassment Tools team
The AHT team is part of the cross-department Community health initiative.

Selection of annual plan metrics is being revisited as of March 2019 (for the original draft version, see Community_health_initiative/Annual_plan_FY18-19, Outcome 1)

Language team
Content translation (cf. annual plan):
 * Surviving translations by newcomers: metric defined in T194650, target TBD as of April 2019
 * Newcomers using Content Translation: metric defined in T194641, target TBD as of April 2019
 * Success and failure rates for newcomers using Content Translation: metric defined in T194647, target TBD as of April 2019
 * Newcomer retention after their first translation: metric defined in T195949, target TBD as of April 2019

Improve Translate extension & translatewiki.net process (cf. annual plan)

Growth team

 * Main metric: Second-month new contributor retention in Czech and Korean Wikipedias (see T201656)
 * Secondary metric: Mentor retention (definition TBD, cf. T201656)