Suggest the first session might fulfil three needs<br><br>1. Get some people trained (ie see above) as a trial to see what skills they need.<br>2. Get these people started and get them some buddies. The U.S. Campus ambassadors have a virtual help room where people can ask for help<br>
3. Work out how this expands ... because it is going to and we will quickly run out of helpers and organisers if we don&#39;t make it scale (I can hear a voice saying &quot;train the trainers&quot;)<br><br>4. OK lets not foget 1.<br>
<br>Roger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 December 2011 22:44, Chris Keating <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com">chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was talking to Gordon Joly and Philafrenzy about this at the Wikimeet and I think the collective feeling was that contact before and after an editing session is important as well as the event itself.<br><div><br></div><div>

I can certainly think of events where lots of people have turned up, but none of the new wannabe Wikipedians has gone on to contribute after the event - perhaps this could be improved by some friendly emails afterwards offering to continue the help offered on the day.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I think we&#39;re definitely learning more about how we do these things, and hopefully these events - whatever form they end up taking - will continue that. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Chris</div>
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