Hi Quiddity,
The checklist on cascadia.wiki is customized for the formats that we are
using for our events, and it's convenient to have a checklist on our wiki.
People can copy the content elsewhere with appropriate attribution. I might
do that eventually, but it's not an interest of mine at the moment.
Cheers,
Pine
On Apr 25, 2015 9:27 PM, "quiddity" <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pine,
There are some good notes in the page at
http://cascadia.wiki/Workroom/Editathon_planning_checklist
I'm wondering what factors you consider when creating a page at
cascadia.wiki vs editing an existing page on the wikimedia wikis?
I'm a moderate mergist at heart, especially regarding backstage/help
pages, because I believe that can solve the issues with
* information-fragmentation (with some or all pages getting out of date),
* user-search (a centralized hub will contain more keywords, and be
more widely linked-to),
* and watchlisting (more eyeballs means more chances of one person's
update inspiring someone else to add or tweak some details)
** More watchlisting also means more people to potentially join
discussions or ask/answer questions on the talkpage.
I see these as potential locations for merging your notes to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon
and possibly some new learning patterns for
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup#How_to_manage_a_Wikimedia_meetup
I'd be interested in your perspective on all this.
Thanks,
Quiddity / Nick
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Cascadians,
I've started a page on our wiki about what I think we've learned about
editathon best practices, both from our own experience and from other
reports that I've read:
http://cascadia.wiki/Workroom/Editathon_planning_checklist
I've been busy with work so tomorrow's event will happen with less prep
done than I would have liked, and I am still a ways from having my
hoped-for VisualEditor tutorial complete, but at least with this
checklist
on our wiki, this will make preparation easier
going forward. Please
contribute your ideas and feedback. You can adapt this general guide for
a
specific focus or editathon by copying it to a
new page and adapting
there.
Thanks!
Pine
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we
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