Rather than making edit-a-thons more restrictive, our project in DC is doing the opposite - having a Wikipedia on-ramp available five days a week, in one of the most high profile places in the US, at the National Archives (NARA).
Wikipedia Space is a project launching by July 2015 at the NARA Innovation Hub where any GLAM professional or member of the general public can learn about Wikipedia and free culture in a standing facility and immediately contribute content.
Details here: http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201450237/
Feel free to contact me for anyone interested in pitching in.
-Andrew
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I really like editathons because of the ease with which they can be designed to address systemic bias, but I'm not sure having them supported by the Foundation is optimal from the perspective of time and money both.
Therefore, I propose that someone try some editathons where half the tickets are auctioned, the other half are raffled, and the Foundation pays to support them if and only if the auction fails to pay all of the expenses in advance, and then only the difference. This will allow them to become more exclusive, but not completely exclusive, and it will incentivize the organizing wikipedians by allowing them to pay themselves some contingent portion of the proceeds to be negotiated with the Foundation, and which could, for example, include an open-ended proportion of auction proceeds.
Please share your thoughts on this proposal. I am also making diagrams for nine of the twelve steps listed on http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review and its talk page, where I will soon be proposing a different alternate funding model to avoid relying on Google Summer of Code. I would also be most interested in comments on that. Thank you! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe