Wikipedia Education Program – Metrics for evaluation

Ideally, all these things could be tracked consistently over time.

Participation

• Number of students involved
• Number of faculty involved
• Number of staff/librarians involved
• Number of ambassadors
• Number of universities involved
• Number of classrooms involved
• Number of student clubs
• Number of staff driven initiatives
• Number of active editors in language project
• Number of administrators in language project (shared load?)

Demographics

• F:M ratio of students involved
• Number of languages covered by universities
• Number of countries involved
• New editors by nationality
• New editors by gender
• New editors by language
• Number of editors who are from the Global South

Content creation

• Number of articles edited
• Number of new articles created
• Number of bytes created
• Number of pictures uploaded on Wikimedia Commons
• Impact on other projects (e.g., Wikiversity; Wiktionary)
• Number of new tools developed (e.g., by a student club)
• Number of new course curriculum developed

Quality impact

• Improvement of quality scores of articles updated in classes
• Number of page views of articles edited by class
• Number of active

Reach impact

• Number of total page views by language and country

Outreach

• Number of workshops hosted
  • Number of attendees at workshops
• Number of events hosted
  • Number of attendees at events
• Number of lectures hosted
  • Number of attendees at lectures
• Money raised by groups