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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf

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-th… Thanks, Kevin Gorman On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com> wrote: