On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of >> activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. >> Facebook, GLAM-oriented lists, etc) have emerged in recent years. >> > > Let me second this. My department is thinking about community health > metrics (constructive suggestions welcome!), but I would not personally > propose mailing list participation (especially this list) as a good metric > - decreased participation here may reflect many, many things, only some of > which are actually negative.
This is not the only one indicator, but it's pretty consistent since 2011 (take a look into [1]). In other words, something happened in May. Maybe it's actually about the elections because people used other means of communication for that. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
