Hi Milos, I think you're overestimating the importance of this list, which is read by only a small portion of the community. Many people in the wider community have no idea this exists.
Best, --Ed On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
