I totally agree. It would be good though to have some WMF sponsored swag on
hand for minor prizes that the chapters could give out for unusual
contributions that pop up at local edit-a-thons though. I am not sure you
would need to track it heavily on the financial side - I was thinking along
the lines of some "real life barnstars" that could be sent from the head
office, decorated with various jargon-like "Wikipedia haiku"s that might
appeal to the hard-core Wikipedian.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
wrote:
On 19 March 2015 at 00:52, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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, (...)
I'm a bit lost here. At the moment, editathons are (almost?) always
free to attend, though some are tacked onto a paying event (eg a
conference); when "ticketed", this is usually to control numbers when
space is limited. This model works pretty well and makes them popular
events; indeed, they're one of our most visible public activities.
I don't see where the benefit would come from selling - or raffling,
auctioning, etc- tickets. It would invariably deter attendees and
reduce uptake; why would making them more exclusive be a *good* thing?
We want as many people as possible to attend, and most do not run at
absolute capacity.
This looks like a problem rather than a solution, even assuming we
need a solution at all. Yes, it would be nice if they were
cost-neutral - but the cost of running editathons is, in my
experience, not high. There are probably easier savings to be made by
WMF.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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