Thanks for the info. The reason I am asking is that Tec de Monterrey is holding an edit a thon on three campuses March 4-6. The reason it is so long is that these days are set aside for major project work. Students work on one of various projects options as part of a program called "Experiencias Retadoras" (Challenging Experiences). With luck, we can break or set a record for the number of bytes added or # of articles or # of participants as a way to motivate students.

I dont know yet how many students will be participating(but it will be higher than anything Ive seen in meta), but they will all come from rhetoric and foreign language classes. To prepare, students in these classes will have already done either a photo upload/a translation/creation of a new article before the 4th of March (several classes have already finished this). Essentially, they will do another round of the same or similar during the edit-a-thon, but at a higher level since they are already familiar with how Wikipedia works. Most students will be uploading photographs or translating featured or good quality articles into es.wiki but some will be working on the creation of new articles.

We have a page on es.wiki at https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n:Experiencia...

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:30:52 -0800 From: wiki.pine@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Record for edit-a-thon production?

Just noting here that I'm looking forward to seeing the results from this year's program evaluation reporting, since this information will be useful for setting goals for projects and campaigns.

Cheers,

Pine

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Jaime Anstee janstee@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Hi Leigh,

We know for some editathons which have been voluntarily reported. You can see what was reported to us in the first round of programs evaluation reports at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2013/Edi...

The learning and evaluation team is currently in the middle of filling-in data gaps and pulling metrics for a second round of programs evaluation reporting this year that will include more data. You can read more in our recent blog at:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/29/fill-in-the-gaps/

Best,

Jaime

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com wrote:

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Is there any record for the number of articles/bytes added to Wikipedia from an edit-a-thon? _______________________________________________ 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

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