In the event that you're overwhelmed with students, you can ask on IRC for help in
#wikipedia-en-help assuming that some students know how to use IRC. Also you can direct
people to the Teahouse and some of the online learning tools. I assume that you have some
kind of introductory lesson plan, but I'm just reminding you that there are places to
get both tutorials and live help if the requests for help get to be more than the
instructors at the event can handle.
Cheers,
Pine
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:55:15 -0700
From: kgorman(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: merrilee(a)merrilee.org; pete(a)wikistrategies.net
Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] editathon tomorrow at the Berkeley Student Cooperative
Hi all -
I announced this on the list a couple weeks ago, but figured I'd make a second
announcement now. I'll be hosting an editathon at Hoyt Hall, one of the Berkeley
Student Cooperative's all-women houses. It'll be at 2519 Ridge Road in Berkeley
from 3-6pm, with a primary audience of co-opers and Berkeley students, although anyone is
welcome to attend. The event will generally be themed around women's history and our
gendergap, with an especial focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of prominent women
in the history of the cooperative movement.
The attendance of a few extra experienced Wikipedians would be especially appreciated (I
do realize that, unfortunately, I cross-scheduled with the iconathon at WMF :).) We had
originally intended for this to be a 15-20 person event which I would be comfortably able
to facilitate myself, but it's looking like we may have as many as 70 or 80 people
show up - so having a few extra experienced Wikipedians beyond what we already have
floating to help make sure everything is running smoothly would be awesome.
Most of the participants will be students, and many of them will never have edited
Wikipedia before. From talking to some of them, many of them haven't even previously
realized that Wikipedia is something that can be edited. In other words, they are pretty
much our target outreach demographic :)
If you're interested in helping out on the administrative side, please feel free to
drop me a note tonight or to show up an hour or so early tomorrow so we'll be able to
hammer out the last details of a gameplan. I'll definitely have a list of target
articles for improvement and intro to Wikipedia resources present, but don't have an
as thoroughly laid out plan as I'd like to handle an event of this size - I ended up
spending half this week just fixing Hoyt's network problems and installing extra
capacity so that we'd actually be able to have this many extra laptops on the wireless
without everything going kaboom.
Regardless of how well the event tomorrow goes, there will likely be a number of themed
editathons at BSC house in the future. I'll ensure that none of those wind up being
cross-scheduled :)
Thanks,Kevin Gorman
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