On 3 February 2012 16:40, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
I think we could speed that up by a wiki skills event somewhat as Tom Morris detailed, but maybe more one to one sessions. I've taught people hotcat and catalot using my netbook in various meetups in pubs and pizza parlours. One of my suggestions for wikimania was a skill sharing lounge where people could teach each other various tools, and I suspect that such a session would be a useful and popular event for the office. The difference between categorising on commons with and without catalot is quite staggering and if we can encourage more editors to use such tools the categorisation backlog will be seriously dented.
I'm wondering if anyone wants to join in with a proposal to have one Wikimania session in DC as a skills sharing thing? Or how we would convince the Wikimania organisers that we need less pontificating and more training? ;-)