A number of areas where collected data would be useful

A number of areas where collected data would be useful

During the research for the Local language projects Task there where a number of different kinds of data that had been useful.

  • Data that allows analysis of the correlation between localization of the MediaWiki software and the growth of the same local projects. Siebrand told me that he and Zachte had talked about something similar before. This would help in judging how important the localization work is.
  • Data about average article size, break down into content type (text, picture, scripts, etc.) and how much of that content that has to be loaded on an average each time an article is loaded. Some of the material like scripts could for example be catched by most users.

There is also not only data about the actual Wikimedia projects that are of interest.

  • Data about connection speeds of the visiting user, as well as potentially visiting users, is one external parameter that is of importance to the projects.
  • Another is data from Google, Alexa, etc. about what people are interested in reading about. Collecting such data together with similar information from the Wikimedia projects and presenting this to potential editors could help increasing the number of editors.

One important thing is to collect data, another is to present important data in an easy way to anyone that could do something useful with the information. As for example visitors willing to edit, but not knowing where they can contribute.

Dafer4512:25, 10 March 2010

These are great. Could you add these to Task force/Analytics/Requirements?

I agree that the hard part will not be collecting the data, but presenting it in a useful way.

Eekim21:01, 10 March 2010

Done.

Dafer4509:27, 11 March 2010