(Crossposted)
Hello everyone!
*As many of you may remember, the Program Evaluation and Design team
invited program leaders, including many of you, to voluntarily participate
in our first Data Collection Survey. Thank you for your participation!* As
a pilot survey, it has provided us insight into what you are tracking
regarding data in the programs you implement, and how we can better support
you in order to evaluate the impact your programs are making.
We have been looking at that data for our current focus programs:
edit-a-thons, Wikipedia editing workshops, GLAM content donations, on-wiki
writing contests, Wiki Loves Monuments and other photography initiatives.* When
the survey closed, we had responses from 23 program leaders from around the
world, who reported on 64 total programmatic activities. Our team also
collected data from 54 additional programmatic activities, to fill out
areas where we had gaps in reporting.*
*We're excited to announce that we have our first draft report ready for
you to. It includes data reported and collected about edit-a-thons:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Edit-a-t…
We evaluated the impact edit-a-thons are having based on their goals, which
often include the creation of content on wiki, and the recruitment and
retention of new editors. This report is not final and we would like to
improve it over time.* Since this is our first time doing a report like
this, we want your feedback.*
*After you take the time to read the report, we would like your feedback on
the talk page about:*
- Whether the report is understandable and written in a way that makes
it useful to you
- What kind of information you would like to see more of / less of
- What we could do to improve the collection of data (e.g. would you
rather like to send us your cohort data and let us do the analysis? – this
might help with reducing your workload)
- Any other feedback you have.
*Secondly, we want to know if program leaders have more impactful or better
quality data than is reported here.* We had a lot of great data come
through, but, we also know, with 26 edit-a-thons being reported, there are
a lot more out there doing this specific kind of event. So please tell us:*Can
you do better than is reported here?* This is a chance to brag and
celebrate the work you've been doing, but didn't perhaps get a chance to
report during this first survey. We can't wait to hear back from you!
*So, in case you have run an edit-a-thon that you think was more successful
than any other edit-a-thon already included in our report*, please send a
quick email to sarah(a)wikimedia.org and I will follow up with you on the
next steps.
Over the next couple of weeks we'll be publishing additional reports, using
your feedback. Thank you so much for your time and contributions. And if
you need anything, feel free to email me or contact me on wiki.
-Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator*
Donate<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>today
and keep it free!
Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!
*Books and Bytes*
Welcome to the inaugural edition of *Books and Bytes*, The Wikipedia
Library's monthly newsletter. The Wikipedia Library is an open research hub
for connecting libraries to Wikipedia and encyclopedia editors back to
libraries and reliable sources.
There's lots of news this month for The Wikipedia Library, including new
accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved:
*New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer
Wikipedia Librarian
*Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United
States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.
*New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia
round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??
*New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog
Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges
* News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full
time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY
* Announcing WikiProject Open:''' WikiProject Open kicked off in October,
with several brainstorming and co-working sessions
* New ways to get involved: Free accounts, user profiles, subject guides;
room for library expansion and exploration
Read the full newsletter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Oct…
Thanks for reading! --Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) and Pat Earley (The Interior)
*To receive future updates of Books and Bytes on Wikipedia, please add your
name to *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The Wikipedia
Library/Newsletter/Recipients
I might actually be able to attend this one!
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Subject: [GLAM-US] November GLAMout -- cancelled
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 12:11 PM
Hi all,
We had a GLAMout scheduled for today but it sort of fell by the wayside in terms of reminders and scheduling content, so I'm going to call it cancelled. I am prepared to both host the meeting next month (unless someone else is dying to do it!) and also send out a reminder about the event a week prior. However, I'll need help both in terms of someone monitoring and pushing out info on Twitter and of course topics for discussion (along with willing presenters!).
For now, put Friday December 6th from 12-1 Pacific / 3-4 Eastern / 20:00-21:00 UTC on your calendars for the December GLAMout!
Merrilee
Hi all!
The next GLAMout is Friday September 6! (That's currently "tomorrow" for US
folks but "today" for those further east.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2013/September
GLAMouts are monthly live Google Hangout on Air sessions where we discuss
developments in GLAM-Wiki. It will also be recorded for later. This GLAMout
is 3–4 p.m. EDT | 12–1 p.m. PDT | 7–8 p.m. UTC. The link to the video will
be available via Twitter on the @glamwiki account and #glamwiki hashtag,
and also shared with this list. *Please join the conversation by using the
#glamwiki hashtag!* We've had great success with this in our past GLAMouts.
The GLAMout is a chance to share important news or progress on GLAM-Wiki
projects. We did not have an August GLAMout due to Wikimania, so this one
will likely be pretty packed with updates. If you have additional updates
please do add them to the October GLAMout agenda so we can be sure to
include them next month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2013/October
Thanks so much!
Lori
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Lori Byrd Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hi all,
As you may have heard <http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=5179>, I am now a
full-time, permanent staff member at the US National Archives employed to
work on Wikipedia initiatives. This makes me, even more clearly so than
previous Wikipedians in Residence which are often temporary workers or
interns, a paid editor.
I have rewritten my user page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic>on Wikimedia projects
where I am active to reflect my job (and position
with my chapter). I am publishing my entire job description on Wikipedia. I
have also written a somewhat lengthy
FAQ<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic/FAQ>about my personal
history, motivations, and what I will and will not be
doing as a paid editor. This statement has been approved by NARA, so it
represents their intentions as an agency as well as my personal thoughts. I
would encourage you to read it.
I realize that this is going well beyond the conflict of interest statement
we usually suggest of cultural professionals editing Wikipedia. I'm
essentially doing this for two reasons. First, out of an abundance of
caution, I would like to demonstrate a high level of transparency and
thoughtfulness, since I am a very public example of being a paid editor.
Second, I am hoping that the way I have expressed the rationale for my
participation on Wikimedia projects can be an exemplar, both for
prospective GLAM partners interested in best practices, and for the
Wikipedia community, which is probably sorely in need of positive examples
of non-advocacy paid editing right now.
To that end, I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this approach
generally or specifically on the statements I've published. I am still
willing any necessary changes if you have a good suggestion.
Dominic