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Outcome measures and impact

Why is there a direct arrow from outcome measures to impact? Yaris678 (talk) 22:25, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Because we define impact as 'the cumulative permanent or structural effect of the various Outcome Measures that we achieve over time' - see Strategic and operational models. There are quite a few outcome measures we can track (such as number of files having quality image status on Commons) which directly relate to our impact in respect of one of the goals (G1.2 The quality of Open Content continues to improve). In other cases, we cannot measure outcomes directly and have to go via the less desirable route of measuring outputs. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

I suggest you rethink that definition. Measures do not have a cumulative effect, it is outcomes themselves that do. Simply removing the word "measures" from the definition would be one option. Yaris678 (talk) 19:04, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Agreed. Not quite sure how that extra word sneaked in there, but I have now removed it. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:44, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks.

Here's a suggestion that you may or may not find helpful: Add in "impact measures". I don't know how workable that would be. I am imagining something similar where direct measures are taken if possible and some cumulative function of outcome measures is used where this is necessary. Yaris678 (talk) 13:25, 19 February 2014 (UTC)