Hello,
Since this is the start of the new year, let me just shortly let you know (or remind you) about what one thing we've done in Sweden last year and a little about what we've learned.
We started in March in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden, to hold weekly editathons. The topic was formally "female main characters" ("kvinnliga huvudpersoner"), but we essentially let people write about what they wanted, and tried to gently steer them towards literature and/or women. It could be female authors, or seminal works in womens' literature such as "The Mad Woman in the Attic". We welcomed people of all sexes.
Altogether we ran 35 editathons each running on a Tuesday from 13.00 onwards, editing in over 100 different articles, with about different 15 Wikipedians. The result was 11 articles reaching "recommended status" (ranking just below Good articles) with more on their way. (We of course want to improve on this for next year.) A full list of articles worked on, sorted on how far they've come can be found on our project page:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudperso...
This initiative is one of the most publicised Wikipedia/Wikimedia events in Sweden during the year with two national radio interviews, two podcast interviews and several articles. There has been no negative reactions (which I am beginning to understand needs specifying) as far as I am aware of. We have presented this on flyers and on the large Book Fair in Gothenburg, and have started to get a very good reputation. We are hoping to see the same sort of regular editathon thing getting off the ground in other cities in Sweden during 2015.
So, what have we learned?
* we could not have done this but for a small group of dedicated people who showed up nearly every time. We were four persons (two female, two male). "All volunteers" led to very little bureaucracy during the editathons themselves and sometimes editathons running over by several hours. Making sure that the editathons didn't depend on any one person was an early priority.
* we had access to a free space with wifi and a kitchen. Each time, Wikimedia Sverige sponsored coffee/tea, sandwiches and fruit - and gingersnaps and other seasonal treats. Don't underestimate the power of "fika" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_%28coffee_break%29). All in all, the cost of all 35 editathons was around 240-250 USD.
* we have two lines of communication: both the project page, and our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/213852525478532/, where we could remind people to come and get them to invite others who aren't on Wikipedia yet. Personal invitations works much better in the long run - getting people to come back week after week.
* the topic was very well chosen. Many are interested in literature and the topic is underdeveloped on Wikipedia, so it's easy to explain the need to outsiders. But it has also been good to allow some leeway and not adhering strictly to any predetermined list of articles to edit. Sometimes interesting topics crop up in conversation or a bad article was discovered during fact checking and then we've encouraged people to edit that article.
* some people have wished for the editathons to be held on other days/other times. It may have contributed to the sometimes very low attendance rates. We've tried to taken that into account, and are thinking about how to manage regular weekend editathons. We are also considering ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering them, in effect).
* there are always going to be a few people who only come one time, just to check what we're about. Especially after we put in weekly small ads (for free). We took turns doing the introduction and making sure they made a few edits, so that as many Wikipedians as possible had done it, and also to make sure that the Wikipedians themselves could have time to edit. That's also how we tried to do with the radio and pod cast interviews, to prevent any one person "the representative Wikipedian".
* you also shouldn't underestimate how much this is a way for stressed Wikipedians with normally very little time to edit Wikipedia to set aside time to do it.
Finally, just FYI. During the winter holiday, when the editathons had a few weeks off, demand for more meetings was so high that we organised a Hangout remote editathon session just to relieve our feelings of abstinence :-)
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg
Presentation @aliasHannibal - på Twitter
"Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål."
Jimmy Wales
Thanks Lennart!
A blog post would be awesome about this -I'm sure the program evaluation folks at WMF would love to see it on the Wikimedia blog. Having it as a blog would make it easier to share with a wider audience off this list.
Great work that continues to be done in Sweden!! :)
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Since this is the start of the new year, let me just shortly let you know (or remind you) about what one thing we've done in Sweden last year and a little about what we've learned.
We started in March in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden, to hold weekly editathons. The topic was formally "female main characters" ("kvinnliga huvudpersoner"), but we essentially let people write about what they wanted, and tried to gently steer them towards literature and/or women. It could be female authors, or seminal works in womens' literature such as "The Mad Woman in the Attic". We welcomed people of all sexes.
Altogether we ran 35 editathons each running on a Tuesday from 13.00 onwards, editing in over 100 different articles, with about different 15 Wikipedians. The result was 11 articles reaching "recommended status" (ranking just below Good articles) with more on their way. (We of course want to improve on this for next year.) A full list of articles worked on, sorted on how far they've come can be found on our project page:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudperso...
This initiative is one of the most publicised Wikipedia/Wikimedia events in Sweden during the year with two national radio interviews, two podcast interviews and several articles. There has been no negative reactions (which I am beginning to understand needs specifying) as far as I am aware of. We have presented this on flyers and on the large Book Fair in Gothenburg, and have started to get a very good reputation. We are hoping to see the same sort of regular editathon thing getting off the ground in other cities in Sweden during 2015.
So, what have we learned?
- we could not have done this but for a small group of dedicated people
who showed up nearly every time. We were four persons (two female, two male). "All volunteers" led to very little bureaucracy during the editathons themselves and sometimes editathons running over by several hours. Making sure that the editathons didn't depend on any one person was an early priority.
- we had access to a free space with wifi and a kitchen. Each time,
Wikimedia Sverige sponsored coffee/tea, sandwiches and fruit - and gingersnaps and other seasonal treats. Don't underestimate the power of "fika" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_%28coffee_break%29). All in all, the cost of all 35 editathons was around 240-250 USD.
- we have two lines of communication: both the project page, and our
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/213852525478532/, where we could remind people to come and get them to invite others who aren't on Wikipedia yet. Personal invitations works much better in the long run - getting people to come back week after week.
- the topic was very well chosen. Many are interested in literature and
the topic is underdeveloped on Wikipedia, so it's easy to explain the need to outsiders. But it has also been good to allow some leeway and not adhering strictly to any predetermined list of articles to edit. Sometimes interesting topics crop up in conversation or a bad article was discovered during fact checking and then we've encouraged people to edit that article.
- some people have wished for the editathons to be held on other
days/other times. It may have contributed to the sometimes very low attendance rates. We've tried to taken that into account, and are thinking about how to manage regular weekend editathons. We are also considering ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering them, in effect).
- there are always going to be a few people who only come one time, just
to check what we're about. Especially after we put in weekly small ads (for free). We took turns doing the introduction and making sure they made a few edits, so that as many Wikipedians as possible had done it, and also to make sure that the Wikipedians themselves could have time to edit. That's also how we tried to do with the radio and pod cast interviews, to prevent any one person "the representative Wikipedian".
- you also shouldn't underestimate how much this is a way for stressed
Wikipedians with normally very little time to edit Wikipedia to set aside time to do it.
Finally, just FYI. During the winter holiday, when the editathons had a few weeks off, demand for more meetings was so high that we organised a Hangout remote editathon session just to relieve our feelings of abstinence :-)
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/ - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg Presentation http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%c3%83%c2%a4ndare:Hannibal @aliasHannibal http://twitter.com/AliasHannibal - på Twitter
"*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till **världens samlade kunskap* http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida*. Det är vårt mål.*" Jimmy Wales
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Dear Lennart,
This is fantastic! I think it does a lot to prove just how useful a small, regular, focused workshop model is. I'm very impressed by the amazing things that you've accomplished this year! Congratulations!
-Emily
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Lennart!
A blog post would be awesome about this -I'm sure the program evaluation folks at WMF would love to see it on the Wikimedia blog. Having it as a blog would make it easier to share with a wider audience off this list.
Great work that continues to be done in Sweden!! :)
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Since this is the start of the new year, let me just shortly let you know (or remind you) about what one thing we've done in Sweden last year and a little about what we've learned.
We started in March in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden, to hold weekly editathons. The topic was formally "female main characters" ("kvinnliga huvudpersoner"), but we essentially let people write about what they wanted, and tried to gently steer them towards literature and/or women. It could be female authors, or seminal works in womens' literature such as "The Mad Woman in the Attic". We welcomed people of all sexes.
Altogether we ran 35 editathons each running on a Tuesday from 13.00 onwards, editing in over 100 different articles, with about different 15 Wikipedians. The result was 11 articles reaching "recommended status" (ranking just below Good articles) with more on their way. (We of course want to improve on this for next year.) A full list of articles worked on, sorted on how far they've come can be found on our project page:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudperso...
This initiative is one of the most publicised Wikipedia/Wikimedia events in Sweden during the year with two national radio interviews, two podcast interviews and several articles. There has been no negative reactions (which I am beginning to understand needs specifying) as far as I am aware of. We have presented this on flyers and on the large Book Fair in Gothenburg, and have started to get a very good reputation. We are hoping to see the same sort of regular editathon thing getting off the ground in other cities in Sweden during 2015.
So, what have we learned?
- we could not have done this but for a small group of dedicated people
who showed up nearly every time. We were four persons (two female, two male). "All volunteers" led to very little bureaucracy during the editathons themselves and sometimes editathons running over by several hours. Making sure that the editathons didn't depend on any one person was an early priority.
- we had access to a free space with wifi and a kitchen. Each time,
Wikimedia Sverige sponsored coffee/tea, sandwiches and fruit - and gingersnaps and other seasonal treats. Don't underestimate the power of "fika" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_%28coffee_break%29). All in all, the cost of all 35 editathons was around 240-250 USD.
- we have two lines of communication: both the project page, and our
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/213852525478532/, where we could remind people to come and get them to invite others who aren't on Wikipedia yet. Personal invitations works much better in the long run - getting people to come back week after week.
- the topic was very well chosen. Many are interested in literature and
the topic is underdeveloped on Wikipedia, so it's easy to explain the need to outsiders. But it has also been good to allow some leeway and not adhering strictly to any predetermined list of articles to edit. Sometimes interesting topics crop up in conversation or a bad article was discovered during fact checking and then we've encouraged people to edit that article.
- some people have wished for the editathons to be held on other
days/other times. It may have contributed to the sometimes very low attendance rates. We've tried to taken that into account, and are thinking about how to manage regular weekend editathons. We are also considering ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering them, in effect).
- there are always going to be a few people who only come one time, just
to check what we're about. Especially after we put in weekly small ads (for free). We took turns doing the introduction and making sure they made a few edits, so that as many Wikipedians as possible had done it, and also to make sure that the Wikipedians themselves could have time to edit. That's also how we tried to do with the radio and pod cast interviews, to prevent any one person "the representative Wikipedian".
- you also shouldn't underestimate how much this is a way for stressed
Wikipedians with normally very little time to edit Wikipedia to set aside time to do it.
Finally, just FYI. During the winter holiday, when the editathons had a few weeks off, demand for more meetings was so high that we organised a Hangout remote editathon session just to relieve our feelings of abstinence :-)
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/ - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg Presentation http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%c3%83%c2%a4ndare:Hannibal @aliasHannibal http://twitter.com/AliasHannibal - på Twitter
"*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till **världens samlade kunskap* http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida*. Det är vårt mål.*" Jimmy Wales
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Thanks for your kind words and your suggestion.
I'll post a version of this email as a draft to the blog here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog probably later today.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg
Presentation @aliasHannibal - på Twitter
"Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål."
Jimmy Wales
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 23:47:59 -0600 From: keilanawiki@gmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
Dear Lennart, This is fantastic! I think it does a lot to prove just how useful a small, regular, focused workshop model is. I'm very impressed by the amazing things that you've accomplished this year! Congratulations! -Emily On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Lennart! A blog post would be awesome about this -I'm sure the program evaluation folks at WMF would love to see it on the Wikimedia blog. Having it as a blog would make it easier to share with a wider audience off this list. Great work that continues to be done in Sweden!! :) On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Since this is the start of the new year, let me just shortly let you know (or remind you) about what one thing we've done in Sweden last year and a little about what we've learned.
We started in March in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden, to hold weekly editathons. The topic was formally "female main characters" ("kvinnliga huvudpersoner"), but we essentially let people write about what they wanted, and tried to gently steer them towards literature and/or women. It could be female authors, or seminal works in womens' literature such as "The Mad Woman in the Attic". We welcomed people of all sexes.
Altogether we ran 35 editathons each running on a Tuesday from 13.00 onwards, editing in over 100 different articles, with about different 15 Wikipedians. The result was 11 articles reaching "recommended status" (ranking just below Good articles) with more on their way. (We of course want to improve on this for next year.) A full list of articles worked on, sorted on how far they've come can be found on our project page:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudperso...
This initiative is one of the most publicised Wikipedia/Wikimedia events in Sweden during the year with two national radio interviews, two podcast interviews and several articles. There has been no negative reactions (which I am beginning to understand needs specifying) as far as I am aware of. We have presented this on flyers and on the large Book Fair in Gothenburg, and have started to get a very good reputation. We are hoping to see the same sort of regular editathon thing getting off the ground in other cities in Sweden during 2015.
So, what have we learned?
* we could not have done this but for a small group of dedicated people who showed up nearly every time. We were four persons (two female, two male). "All volunteers" led to very little bureaucracy during the editathons themselves and sometimes editathons running over by several hours. Making sure that the editathons didn't depend on any one person was an early priority.
* we had access to a free space with wifi and a kitchen. Each time, Wikimedia Sverige sponsored coffee/tea, sandwiches and fruit - and gingersnaps and other seasonal treats. Don't underestimate the power of "fika" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_%28coffee_break%29). All in all, the cost of all 35 editathons was around 240-250 USD.
* we have two lines of communication: both the project page, and our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/213852525478532/, where we could remind people to come and get them to invite others who aren't on Wikipedia yet. Personal invitations works much better in the long run - getting people to come back week after week.
* the topic was very well chosen. Many are interested in literature and the topic is underdeveloped on Wikipedia, so it's easy to explain the need to outsiders. But it has also been good to allow some leeway and not adhering strictly to any predetermined list of articles to edit. Sometimes interesting topics crop up in conversation or a bad article was discovered during fact checking and then we've encouraged people to edit that article.
* some people have wished for the editathons to be held on other days/other times. It may have contributed to the sometimes very low attendance rates. We've tried to taken that into account, and are thinking about how to manage regular weekend editathons. We are also considering ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering them, in effect).
* there are always going to be a few people who only come one time, just to check what we're about. Especially after we put in weekly small ads (for free). We took turns doing the introduction and making sure they made a few edits, so that as many Wikipedians as possible had done it, and also to make sure that the Wikipedians themselves could have time to edit. That's also how we tried to do with the radio and pod cast interviews, to prevent any one person "the representative Wikipedian".
* you also shouldn't underestimate how much this is a way for stressed Wikipedians with normally very little time to edit Wikipedia to set aside time to do it.
Finally, just FYI. During the winter holiday, when the editathons had a few weeks off, demand for more meetings was so high that we organised a Hangout remote editathon session just to relieve our feelings of abstinence :-)
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg
Presentation @aliasHannibal - på Twitter
"Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål."
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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 :-)
Kerry
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
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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
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Two things about the name:
1) in Swedish we don't call them editathons, but "skrivstuga/skrivstugor" (editing cottage/editing cottages).
2) the suffix "athon" comes from Marathon, a long-distance run. Considering that this event is even longer than any normal editathon, it's arguably even more appropriate ;-) But I see your point.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
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Jimmy Wales
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:30:29 -0800 From: christinewmeyer@gmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
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. ChristineUser: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
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Lennart,
I love the name 'Editing cottage', that is very homey! :) I may steal that for relaxing events in the US!
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Two things about the name:
- in Swedish we don't call them editathons, but "skrivstuga/skrivstugor"
(editing cottage/editing cottages).
- the suffix "athon" comes from Marathon, a long-distance run.
Considering that this event is even longer than any normal editathon, it's arguably even more appropriate ;-) But I see your point.
Best wishes,
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:30:29 -0800 From: christinewmeyer@gmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
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.
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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
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On 1/2/2015 2:13 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote:
...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
DC calls them WikiSalons and I wish I'd gone more and earlier which might have helped with a lot of problems I had over last few years. Editors in DC are pretty supportive.
Or Editing Party. Nothing like a party to perk us up :-)
And it really is the best way to help new editors with the ins and outs - and ups and downs ;-( - of being a new editor.
CM