i agree the trend is low undergraduate attendance if not part of grade
some campus marketing (fliers, partnership with groups seems in order)
but we don't have a handle on it.
major divide between readers and editors seems hard to close.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi GG mailing list and Maria from WMF Eval,
Cascadia Wikimedians ran a series of editathons at the University of
Washington with themes like "Women and astronomy" and "Women and Health
Sciences". We did some communications through the University's Facebook
pages and mailing lists. While we had regular attendance from veteran
Wikipedians and from university librarians, we had very little attendance
from current students on campus who we had hoped would attend.
I heard from a female undergraduate that there was buzz and interest on
campus in what we were doing, but few people took the next step of coming
to one of our events.
Another comment I heard at Wikiconference USA is that university
editathons are most successful if there's a current undergraduate on campus
who is interested and recruits their friends. In the absence of that, the
university editathon model tends to have mediocre outcomes.
Any suggestions about how to increase attendance if we decide to try this
again in the future?
Thanks,
Pine
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