Talk:Strategy consultation

This is the primary discussion space for the WMUK Strategy, agreed 08/03/2014

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Much of the consultation feedback was taken through the individual talk pages of the documents. The Strategy consultation letter summarises that feedback, and our responses and actions arising from the consultation process. On the 8th of March 2014 the board voted on, and approved, the strategy as amended following the consultation process. The comments on the talk pages of the individual documents can still be seen in the page histories, but to avoid confusion I've redirected those pages to here to direct people in the first instance to the Strategy consultation letter. Of course any further points can be raised on this page, although the consultation period itself is over and the strategy now approved by the board. Sjgknight (talk) 11:33, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Quality and quantity

Looking at the strategy monitoring plan, I notice the following are under "G1.2 The quality of Open Knowledge continues to improve".

• Number of new articles started on a Wikimedia site (eg any of the encyclopedias), excluding Welsh Wicipedia
• Number of new articles started on Welsh Wicipedia inspired by WMUK

Would they not be better under "G1.1 The quantity of Open Knowledge continues to increase"?

Yaris678 (talk) 19:59, 1 May 2014 (BST)

We take it that new articles are an indicator of increasing coverage - a quality indicator. The content added is covered under G1.1 Sjgknight (talk) 20:08, 1 May 2014 (BST)

Sorry, this is a very strange answer to Yaris' question. Measuring quantity is by definition a measurement of quantity. A measurement of quality must be qualitative, such as increased depth or range of a subject area, or improvement in article quality, say by moving stubs into 'B' class articles. Going from 300 articles on a subject to 400 does not mean that quality is 30% better, for example a bot could create 100 basic stubs to deliver that quantity. --Fæ (talk) 21:07, 1 May 2014 (BST)