[IMC-US] PROJECT: Quantifying the health of US-based IMC's

[mahtin at riseup.net]

Hi, I'm new to this list, but I've been on the imc-us-editorial list for a
year or two.  I'm also an editor with Indybay.org.  I am going thru emails
I had missed over the last few days, and haven't yet seen if folks had
responded.

I think that the health of the collective as an organism has to be taken
into consideration-- how many new collective members are there?  How many
have left?

-Mahtin

> Hi all,
>
> Here's an interesting notion-- while much debate rages, on
> imc-alternatives and elsewhere-- about the future of Indymedia, I thought
> it might be interesting to try to quantify the website health of US based
> IMC collectives.
>
> Using the following metrics, a team could go together though the us imc
> websites and gather data to answer following questions. Then, the numbers
> could be tweaked-- either weighted via  a percentage or curved based on
> overall rank. This info could then be shared with the broader IMC
> community.
>
> I know that "defining" health would obviously be the most difficult part
> of this task, as it always is in this kind of research. The items below
> are only a very preliminary stab at a metric. Obviously, a healthy web
> collective will: make features; get input (in the form of newswire posts)
> from its local community, and moderate (in some form, even if is only to
> hide gibberish and porn) the newswire (because the question of newswire
> moderation is so fraught with disagreement, my idea would be to count the
> bare-minimum of moderation and nothing more).
>
> If I were to weight these, I'd weight contributions from local community
> as #1, followed by moderation and features as a tied #2.
>
> what do people think about this notion? And how would people add to /
> change the metrics?
>
> best,
> Chris
> NYC IMC
>
> ---
>
> Mapping the Health of US Based IMCs
>
> # of features posted over 6 mos
> # of local newswire items posted in the past 3 months
> # of “spam posts” (unhidden) in 2 weeks (spam defined as: pornography;
> gibberish / nonsense posts; posts that say “test”)
>
>
>
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