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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