I would also advise as a good strategy partnering with an outside group, whether an academic or nonprofit organization, or just an interested academic or activist and their circle of colleagues/students. And make sure they feel this is their event, and give them top billing,

It doesn't have to specifically be women's groups - almost any academic or nonprofit grouping is going to have more gender diversity (and more experience in a lot of needed areas) than what you would catch with just on-wiki outreach.

I would say a measure of success is when you find "new" people are able to "own" this activity in events with different themes, and spreading this type of outreach to more circles and areas of interest, and I think we've seen a fair amount of this in NYC in the past year or so.

Thanks,

Pharos

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Keilana, Lennart and J,

Thanks for the feedback. Based on your suggestions, if we try this again, we might try moving to weekend dates and slowing our cadence to alternate weeks.

We're hoping that the University of Washington Libraries will identify someone on their staff who they're already funding and would be interested in accepting a Wikimedian-in-Residence role. If this happens then perhaps one of the WiR's roles can be to lead these events. Alternatively, with Cascadia Wikimeidans slowly but surely growing our number of regular Wikimedians, perhaps one of our members will want to take on UW editathons as his or her main project.

Another question that I have is about scaling. We're scaling quite slowly and incrementally overall, but have had zero growth in the past 12 months with our number of regular female attendees. I'm told that very slow growth is normal for affiliates. I'd like to see us grow our numbers, which in turn would enable us to do more outreach events and generate a positive feedback loop. Any suggestions about how to make that happen, particularly with potential female contributors who are very underrepresented among our population of regular attendees?

Thanks,
Pine

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