TL;DR:

* Learning and Evaluation sessions at Wikimedia Conference USA 2015 [1]

* What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina [2]

* Vote to name the new Wikimedia Surveys site! [3]

* New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons [4]

Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!

Important updates from Learning and Evaluation:

== October 9-11: L&E at Wikimedia Conference USA [1] ==

The Learning and Evaluation team will be involved in two different sessions at Wikimedia Conference USA, to be held in Washington DC from October 9 to October 11, 2015.

* Community Health Clinic: Researching prescription for healthy communities

(Saturday, October 10, 3:45 pm)

What are the characteristics of a healthy Wikimedia Community? What are communities doing to promote the welcoming and retention of new editors and contributors and support overall civility? In this session we will review what we have learned from recent and past Wikimedia research on community health as well as discover what other organizations are doing to support robust online communities.

* Creative Program Design Workshop

(Sunday, October 11, 11:45 am)

In what ways might we create and improve Wikimedia outreach programs using creative problem solving techniques? In this 75 minutes workshop you will work with other program leaders to create and improve Wikimedia outreach programs using a creative problem solving process. Bring back to your community the best thinking of other program leaders for new and improved programs, as well as a process you can use to engage your community volunteers in creative program design.

== What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina [2] ==

In September, we published the first blogpost of the new blog series “What I Learned”. In this new delivery, Wikimedia Argentina expands on a lesson shared in the last progress report: how to build a shared foundation to work with educators. The goal of this series is to both showcase a the work done on a community, as well as promote reports as learning resources. We aim at co-editing blogs with community members, and we will publish one story a month, on the third week of every month. Read the blog, comment and share! [2]

== Vote on the name for new wikimedia survey site! [3] ==

We are working to create a new site where you can find resources and direct support from WMF staff for your surveys. This service will be available to anyone and everyone in the Wikimedia movement. We would like your help to choose a name that makes sense to you and that is most welcoming to anyone in our movement:

You can vote and add your own idea in the link below. Vote as many times as you like!

http://allourideas.org/wikimediasurveys

== New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons [4] ==

If you missed the virtual panel on editathons, you can now revisit the meet up on our Youtube channel [4]. During this panel, Greta Doçi (Albanian Wikipedia), Nikola Kalchev (Bulgaria Wikipedia), and Iván Martínez (Spanish Wikipedia) shared their experience running editathons. In this rich and diverse encounter, community members that joined the conversation, were able to ask questions first hand to program leaders. All the session was documented on an etherpad [4], and the slides are also available now online [4].

As always, stay up to date with upcoming news and events by following our events page [5]!

*María Cruz * \ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_

[1] L&E Sessions at Wikimedia Conference USA:

* Community Health Clinic:

http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Community_Health_Clinic:_...

* Creative Program Design Workshop:

http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Creative_Program_Design_W...

[2] What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/29/wikipedia-education-argentina/

[3] Vote to help chose a site name for Wikimedia surveys:

http://allourideas.org/wikimediasurveys

[4] New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons:

* Virtual panel video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXsSnF2sWw

* Etherpad of the session:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Editathons_and_Workshops

* Slides shared:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Learning_Circle_on_Editathons_-_Slid...

* Evaluation Report Snapshot short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ER0YCdRDyk

[5] Upcoming Events Section in Evaluation Portal:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News#upcoming-events