Have you checked about similar initiatives from other chapters or user groups? I've heard that Wikimédia France ou Wikimedia Deutschland host similar workshops, both in their offices or inside of local groups. They may have some feedback to share.
Benoît
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:36 PM Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:
I like the idea. Once you have worked out how to do it efficiently, maybe the WMF can send out trainers to places where the skills are thin on the ground. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Lubbock Sent: 15 October 2018 13:14 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Monthly skill share idea
Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday, I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article status', AWB, Wikidata infoboxes, something on commons or photography perhaps.
Would anybody like to suggest other subjects which it would be good to have a workshop on? We need a list of 12 which would have some broad appeal to the community and chapter members.
I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, maybe first week of the month. How does that sound to everyone? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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