My immediate thought (probably misplaced or a misunderstanding, so
please don't bite my head off if that is so) is that such editathons
should be more directed at a wider topic (such as free culture in
general) rather than Mozilla in particular. It feels like "here's some
meeting space and here is some free food, now write/improve the
articles about us". Which is a subtle and important distinction from
the editathons I've been to where the hosting institutions provide
help and resources, but don't insist on or set the topic which is
being edited (though for obvious reasons of convenience and proximity
some of the editathons resulted in articles about objects housed in
the musuem/library hosting the event).
Maybe it should be made clear that WM-UK suggested the topic, not
Mozilla? Re-reading the e-mail, I see that this is very likely the
case, but the distinction is an important one. Having said that, the
British Library food is good, so I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to
compare that to the Mozilla food... :-) But sadly I'll not be around
in London that weekend.
Carcharoth
PS. I thought there was talk at some point of WM-UK providing space
directly for editathons, did that idea not work out?
PPS. It strikes me that what I said here is better said on the
wikimediauk-l mailing list. Is it possible to subscribe to that
without having joined WM-UK?
On 7/30/12, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daria Cybulska <daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: 30 July 2012 09:45
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Mozilla teams up with Wikimedia UK for an
Editathon - 18 August, London
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear All,
Mozilla UK has been supportive to Wikimedia UK and since they opened
their Mozilla Spaces venue, they were keen that we use it needed for
events. What we realised is that some of the articles relating to
Mozilla, Firefox etc. in Wikipedia are not quite of the high standard
they could be. And so we thought it would be a neighbourly thing to do
to have a "Mozilla-related Editahton" - the aim would be to turn a
list of about 15 Mozilla-related articles into content perhaps worthy
of being a Good Article.
The sprint will be on Saturday 18 August, starting at 12PM at the
Mozilla offices (London WC2N 4AZ). Lunch and snacks will be provided,
as will Mozilla people who can be consulted regarding good sources for
information. Do come along and help our our free culture colleagues
:-)
For more info and to sign up please visit
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Editathon
You can also email me with any questions.
Many thanks,
Daria
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