Dear John,

I'd be happy to see the chapter bring back these sort of events. Thinking of a few lessons from when we last did them, coffee, soft drinks and some sort of snacks are important - remember that many attendees will be coming straight from work. We also used to designate a pub for the end of the evening.

You need to allow for a variable start time, some people will be working nearby, others may finish later and be an hour away - starting off with something informal such as a wiki surgery would give time for more people to get there. You don't want to give some people an hour to kill after work or exclude others because they can't slope off work early.

Don't try to get 12 topics fixed before you start, topics will emerge as you talk to the attendees and potential attendees. But the ones we discussed at the London Meetup, FA writing, AWB workshop etc would give a good diverse start. Geni's talk on "photography in museums" is one I would happily hear again.

Last Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday would give some distance from the existing London meetup on the second Sunday, and in the months with 5 weeks give you an advantage when you are competing against events that use the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th week of the month.


Jonathan






Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:14:25 +0100
From: John Lubbock <john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk>
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Monthly skill share idea
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Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday,
I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at
the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
perhaps.

Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have
a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
the community and chapter members.

I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
month. How does that sound to everyone?


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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:52:15 +0530
From: Tito Dutta <trulytito@gmail.com>
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Excellent idea. There was an idea to start something similar "what have you
learnt recently/Share your exciting new learning (of course Wiki-related)".

Thanks
Tito Dutta
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 16:45, John Lubbock <john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday,
> I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at
> the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
> with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
> status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
> perhaps.
>
> Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have
> a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
> the community and chapter members.
>
> I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
> month. How does that sound to everyone?
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:36:17 +0200
From: "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net>
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I like the idea. Once you have worked out how to do it efficiently, maybe the WMF can send out trainers to places where the skills are thin on the ground.
Cheers,
Peter

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Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday,
I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at
the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography
perhaps.

Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have
a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to
the community and chapter members.

I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the
month. How does that sound to everyone?
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