I suspect that a program of global recognition of newbies at Wikimania is too fast and too
soon. It is a very big jump from making a few edits on a website to winning some global
award, an award that only new editors qualify for.
We have thousands, possibly tens of thousands of good faith new editors who do a few
edits, and then usually go away, sometimes returning years later.
Better in my opinion to have programs with them that scale, and are an appropriate
interaction for someone in an early stage of their wiki career.
On the main page of English Wikipedia we have a Did you Know? section with snippets from
several new or greatly expanded articles. Over the years I have nominated several new
articles by new editors.
This is something that could scale. On English alone we have thousands of DYK hooks each
year, hundreds of those could be from newbies.
Regards
Jonathan/WereSpielChequers
On 23 Jan 2016, at 04:53, Romaine Wiki
<romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Marc,
After our big success in the Dutch Wikipedia, and also the success of our German
colleagues, we thought of organising and shortly analysed the situation and we came to the
conclusion that it's mostly a scale problem. In other words, tech support is needed.
We are very much aware of the delicacy it has.
I think however that it should not focus on only one person/project as there are
certainly multiple each year that should get attention. To me it would sound better if
there will be a video shown with the largest and/or most successful projects of the past
year so that we all can learn and get inspired by all those successful projects.
Greetings,
Romaine
Op maandag 18 januari 2016 heeft Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> het volgende
geschreven:
On 2016-01-17 11:21 PM, Romaine Wiki wrote:
At the same time I sense something important is
missing. I miss in the large plenary sessions the attention for specific users and their
projects that are of most value for the movement.
Yes, and no. I agree with you in principle (that is, the plenary sessions tend to have
too little focus on direct volunteer impact), but that is not something that is missing by
design but by lack of an actual session to present.
I made a presentation on the featured speakers track in London that was all about
specific users and projects and it was very enthusiastically received - by the programme
committee and the audience - so it's clear that there is desire to have such
presentations. But they first have to be proposed (please do so!).
That said, one idea I had been toying with for 2017 was to have an award ceremony for the
most impactful volunteers of the (2016) year - kinda like Jimmy's Wikipedian of the
year award, only selected by the community and with a much wider scope. It's only
half-baked, because it's a really complicated and delicate thing to do *right* (who
picks, how are nominations made, how to avoid neglecting the non-english-Wikipedia
contributors, etc). If it can be made to work right, I'd make it a big focus of the
closing ceremony. And probably try to find where Philippe found the actual physical
barnstars to give out. :-)
And I'd very much like this to become a yearly thing; not just a one-off for 2017.
-- Marc
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