Re: [Wiki-research-l] Chapters

This 2010 conference paper by Leonhard Dobusch and Sigrid Quack compared the global affiliate network of the Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons, based on many interviews with (on the Wikimedia side) chapter members:

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Hi Aisha, to answer your question, the only relevant publications that may help you are reports. Chapters and user groups report at least annually, but we have not done a comparison between affiliate groups. We have only done this comparative studies for program mapping [1] and grants

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Hello Aisha, Indeed there is not much research on Wikimedia affiliates (chapters or other). What are you specifically interested in, for what research purpose? In sociology, history, management science? :-) Kind regards Ziko https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko 2017-01-10 12:56

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Hoi, Return on investment is in our context all too arbitrary. Ask yourself; is investing in gender gap important but does it make the best return on investment. At the time I invested in documenting every person who died in Wikidata. It was a good investment because now people have taken over

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What's wrong with "return on investment"? And what is a "term of art" exactly? I agree with Kerry and Pine both about the frustrations, but I also agree with Asaf in terms of all the improvements WMF has made. The problem with making a yearly chapter plan is the lack of knowledge on what "impact"

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Hoi, With logic like "return on investment" you favour big over important. So no, please no. Thanks, GerardM On 10 January 2017 at 07:23, Pine W wrote: > > To clarify my earlier comment about the term "impact": this has been used > as a term of art by WMF in ways that

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To clarify my earlier comment about the term "impact": this has been used as a term of art by WMF in ways that I think are difficult even for native English speakers to grasp without specific instruction in how WMF uses the term. In practice, among grantees, the term seems to be used to mean a

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Hoi, >From my perspective, this endless talk, these ever shifting sands prevent chapters in many ways to branch out and do things that are not necessarily the best from a global point of view but are the best from a local point of view. Do appreciate that many of these discussions are not

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Hi, Kerry. Thanks for sharing these thoughts. I know what you're talking about, and I think they are important to express, for the benefit of those who do not have experience with the kinds of activities running a chapter requires. (I do.) Some comments, inline: (Pardon the length of this

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote: > My personal 10c on this having been a chapter member for several years > and a chapter committee member for some of those years is that there are > the chapters who get annual funding and those who don’t. If you

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content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Jaime Anstee <jans...@wikimedia.org>; Katy Love <kl...@wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Chapters Hi Aisha, I suggest that you contact Jaime Anstee and/or Katy Love (cc'd here) about this

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Hi Aisha, I suggest that you contact Jaime Anstee and/or Katy Love (cc'd here) about this subject, because they are WMF staff who do a lot of work with grantmaking and performance evaluation for chapters. They might know of some analyses that could help you. Discussions about what kinds of

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Relevant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Dialogue On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > Hi Aisha, > > Interesting question. I haven't read anything that fits this description, > but you may want to take a look at the work of Iolanda Pensa[1]

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Hi Aisha, Interesting question. I haven't read anything that fits this description, but you may want to take a look at the work of Iolanda Pensa[1] and Darius Jemielniak[2], both of whom are researchers and also active in Movement governance. 1. http://repository.supsi.ch/2138/ 2.

[Wiki-research-l] Chapters

Hi! Could anyone point me towards any papers relevant to Wikimedia chapters (how they function, the work they do, whether they have been successful or otherwise)? Thank you! :) Aisha ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org