Talk:Community Capacity Development/On-wiki technical skills

Wooo! We did some things like this in India a long time ago, once or twice, with Gadget writing workshops. Not sure how successful they were, though... I can hunt down links at some point (emails to wikitech-l). Supper happy to see more support for this! 79.58.168.196 16:24, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Building the capacity for hands-on research

Hi Asaf. Thanks for sharing this proposal. :) I have a suggestion/comment and I do look forward to continue this discussion with you online and offline. I see enormous value in empowering the interested communities with some of the basic analytics and research skills that are widely used across other websites that operate at the scale Wikimedia projects operate at today. What I'm suggesting will be a relatively large scale effort. It will require developing curriculum for helping interested (current or potential) community members learn about the basics of statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, etc, and also learn how to use the current data that is publicly/non-publicly available in conjunction with these skills to deepen the impact of the projects they are interested in. I had been thinking about this idea for a while, debating whether I should start a MOOC on this topic, and have talked to a few external research collaborators about this who are interested to help with such effort. I can tell you that there is momentum to make this happen if there is agreement/alignment that there is value in it. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 10:52, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Leila! That'd be absolutely fantastic! I hesitated about whether or not to propose it myself, precisely because I realized the large scale it would require. It would also only make sense under certain minimal conditions, in terms of communities involved, but yes, it would be a wonderful capacity to develop in communities! Let's talk, even if only about the longer term. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Great! Let's do that. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 14 February 2017 (UTC)