Christine, I love the idea of having names based on the topic at hand! I also agree that the "a-thon" suffix implies a huge thing. I personally use "workshop" to describe smaller events, if that helps.

-Emily

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Christine Meyer <christinewmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm very interested in this kind of thing, so much so that I'd like to follow a similar model locally.  I'm not sure that I live in a large enough area to make it feasible, though.  However, I think that it's a good model to recruit and retain editors, especially women, who tend to like editing in community.  Wikimedia should pursue this.

As far as a name for regular editing sessions like this, it reminds me a club--a group of people who meet regularly to accomplish some kind of task, like a book club or Toastmasters.  How about something like, "Wikipedians Club".  I'm sure there's a more creative name than that.  And then we could have individual chapters with more creative names, based on topic or geography.

Christine
User:Figureskatingfan

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:

The key comment is this: “We are also considering ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering them, in effect).”

If edit-a-thons are to achieve scale, it’s necessary that once established, the group will continue under its own momentum. This frees up the original organisers (or new members who have “graduated” to become new organisers) to move on and establish similar groups.

 

Just an aside, I think we need a different term for this kind of regular edit session. Perhaps it’s just my own cultural baggage, but I associate the “-a-thon” as a big once-off event e.g.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra/2014-08-14-Wikibomb

 

rather than something smaller but more regular and ongoing. Maybe we should call it an editfika J

 

Kerry


_______________________________________________
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap



--
Christine
____________________

_______________________________________________
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap