Hi Phoebe -
It actually went pretty well. The group of people attracted were (thankfully) significantly smaller than what the Facebook RSVP list had led us to worry about, and the people who showed up were highly engaged and seem likely to have a much higher retention rate than most editathons result in. We created a handful of new articles about women who have played prominent roles in the cooperative movement (including some who had made incredibly significant contributions to fields of law that still effect our day to day lives) but had no previous mentions on Wikipedia, and improved another dozen or so articles above that. None of the articles are astounding, but given that we really only had about two and a half hours to introduce people to wikicode and get crackin' I feel like the results were pretty impressive. We had (thankfully) a lot of text sources on hand - otherwise a lot of the articles would've been impossible to write.
We will probably be hosting events like this in houses of the Berkeley Student Cooperative on a pretty frequent basis from now on - at least monthly or something like that.
You can see some of the outcomes from this event at the bottom of this page, although I haven't tracked all the contributions down yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Hoyt_Hall_Women%27s_edit-a-tho...
Thanks, Kevin Gorman
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Hey Kevin,
How did this event go today? I'm sorry I couldn't make it over ... if it was a success maybe we should consider doing it once a quarter or so!
cheers, phoebe
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