DEVELOPER SUMMIT METRICS

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REGISTRATION

• No of registrations received:
• No of approved participants:
• No of participants who we rejected:
• No of participants who rejected our invitation:
• Scholarship requested:
• Scholarship granted:

PARTICIPATION

• Total participants: 179
• 78% men, 20% women, 2% other
• 30 countries / 28 nationalities
• 71% WMF, 11% third parties, 10% volunteers, 8% chapters
• List of participants: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Participant_Info

OUTREACH EFFORTS

• Page view analysis report of the Wikimedia Developer Summit page between October 15th and 29th is below. Page views peaked on the 18th, 19th, 21st, and 23rd. These are exactly the dates when we maximized out outreach efforts through mailing lists, social media channels, and other means as discussed in the related task here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146615

PROGRAM

• No of committee members: 11
• Number of themes: 6
• List of themes:
  • A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results
  • Handling wiki content beyond plaintext
  • Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources
  • How to manage our technical debt
  • Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content
  • How to grow our technical community

SESSIONS

• No of prescheduled sessions: 19
• No of unconference sessions scheduled: 20 (we had total 24 spots available, 12 per day)
• Q&A Session with CTO and VP received 40 proposals for questions and a total of 1840 votes. See below our top 5 questions:

DOCUMENTATION

All session notes were collected here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/All_Session_Notes. We asked people to take notes collaborative notes on etherpad, and then move it over to the wikis. Good thing is that no session is missing notes, but it's just that they lack consistency. We collected:

• 32 notes via etherpad
• 12 notes via MediaWiki
• 2 slides
• 2 via google docs

GET STUFF DONE DAY

• 10 people presented out of which 9 people demoed what they developed and 1 was about announcement of the developer wishlist

REMOTE PARTICIPATION

• Promotion about remote participation received much love on twitter.

• Video statistics of the keynote w/ Ward from YouTube, that has received 248 views so far and the view duration increased up to two weeks after the summit

FEEDBACK SURVEY

• 68 people filled out the overall Developer Summit feedback survey
• 13 people filled out the Remote Participation feedback survey
• Lessons learned will soon be published here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017/Lessons_Learned

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This year we would like to improve our "Metrics of Success" tracking at the Wikimedia Developer Summit.
Our efforts and documentation in the past include:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88520
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Measures_of_success.2FMetrics

This year we need to:
Figure out what metrics we should be tracking
Figure out how to track them
Track them
Publish the results

@srishakatux can you use this task to think about what things we would like to know about the event which will help demonstrate its value (or lack there of)?