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)

Drafting Bugzilla metrics
The agreed entries have been moved to Community_metrics/Master_report. Thank you for the discussion!

Below you can find some hard bones left.

People

 * Active in the past 12 months. (likely needs a SQL query -- User:Malyacko)
 * New accounts in the last month. (needs a SQL query -- User:Malyacko)
 * From these, how many filed a bug or comment.

Activity

 * Average time of resolution (Fixed, Invalid, etc).
 * In the past year.
 * In the past month.


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

New bugs

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

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)


 * The truth is, I'm not sure myself. :) The main goal is to map contributors, contributions, and opportunities to contribute. So far it hasn't been a priority (for me) to find out how many passive MW users are out there, but this doesn't mean that it can't be a priority in the future or a priority for someone else right now. What is clear is that a community of many and diverse users of a piece of software is better than a community with e.g. only one superuser. In that sense knowing whether the number of WM instances out there is growing or not would be useful as well. I'm happy to include new metrics in the reports as long as there is a way to retrieve them. PS: about the name, maybe it is a good idea to all it Wikimedia tech community anyway. Not sure yet, though... --Qgil (talk) 19:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)