Good day all,
I just wanted to let you know that our edit-a-thon at the C. Burr Artz Library's Maryland Room (archives) was a success. We had 9 people show up, 3 new editors, and 2 new people make accounts (one already had one that just had never been used). We also had one person who just came to see the presentation, but didn't actually create an account.
We created 2 new articles, actually photographed a few local buildings that had articles, but no photos, and made modifications to four other articles. The edit-a-thon was not quite as productive as I would have liked, but everyone still had a good time and some folks new to Wikimedia learned who we are and what we are about.
I'll have a full write-up, with what I learned and advise for future organisers along with detailed results, on-wiki a bit later, but I wanted to give a brief summary here now. I'll email again once I've done the full write-up.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
Derric, That's great, and I think 9 is a good number for the states. Time will tell whether the newbies stick around... Jane
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Derric Atzrott < datzrott@alizeepathology.com> wrote:
Good day all,
I just wanted to let you know that our edit-a-thon at the C. Burr Artz Library’s Maryland Room (archives) was a success. We had 9 people show up, 3 new editors, and 2 new people make accounts (one already had one that just had never been used). We also had one person who just came to see the presentation, but didn’t actually create an account.
We created 2 new articles, actually photographed a few local buildings that had articles, but no photos, and made modifications to four other articles. The edit-a-thon was not quite as productive as I would have liked, but everyone still had a good time and some folks new to Wikimedia learned who we are and what we are about.
I’ll have a full write-up, with what I learned and advise for future organisers along with detailed results, on-wiki a bit later, but I wanted to give a brief summary here now. I’ll email again once I’ve done the full write-up.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
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Derric,
Per Jane, unfortunately that is about the scale of editathons that we tend to see in the U.S. unless you have a developed community in a metropolitan area. Sometimes it helps to thematize events around a topic of interest to a particular community already. That being said good job! We need more people being bold and innovative!
Alex On Jun 16, 2014 1:33 PM, "Jane Darnell" jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Derric, That's great, and I think 9 is a good number for the states. Time will tell whether the newbies stick around... Jane
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Derric Atzrott < datzrott@alizeepathology.com> wrote:
Good day all,
I just wanted to let you know that our edit-a-thon at the C. Burr Artz Library’s Maryland Room (archives) was a success. We had 9 people show up, 3 new editors, and 2 new people make accounts (one already had one that just had never been used). We also had one person who just came to see the presentation, but didn’t actually create an account.
We created 2 new articles, actually photographed a few local buildings that had articles, but no photos, and made modifications to four other articles. The edit-a-thon was not quite as productive as I would have liked, but everyone still had a good time and some folks new to Wikimedia learned who we are and what we are about.
I’ll have a full write-up, with what I learned and advise for future organisers along with detailed results, on-wiki a bit later, but I wanted to give a brief summary here now. I’ll email again once I’ve done the full write-up.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries