[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Youth Camp?

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I am supportive for "tutorial tracks" Andrew mentioned. Not only for
the younger generation, but also for other generations, including aged
(and not familiar with PC and other techy things) etc.

In a practical mention, it would be meaningful to target the youth in
that occasion,  simply because they would be significant parts of our
community, and generally they need to be trained. Some young
Wikipedians (I am now recalling LeonWP on German Wikipedia, Kzhr on
Japanese Wikipedia et al) have showed splendid maturity through their
editorial activities, however it isn't inevitable they are still
developping their skills in all directions. And the much clearer we
can make the target of such event  the more successful and the more
practically managed it would be.

Back to the general topic, I saw once a question about training
occasion on Japanese Wikipedia. A newcomer, supposedly middle-aged or
older and seemed to have some experiences in his or her field, wanted
to know if there was an oppotunity of editing tutorial sessions in
real life. I recommend each language community to consider to hold
such (perhaps local) lecture(s), if possible. It would be a good
oppotunity to consider such tutorials are better to be organized by
generation or not, too.

On 9/6/06, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course, but we should make sure it's actually something that people would
> > want to be part of before devoting a lot of effort to it. Frankly, I don't
> > think that many kids on Wikipedia would be interested in a course called
> > "Everything you know about Pokemon, and where to put it," and probably even
> > less would be able to get there.
>
> That's why I think as a start, it would be good to run this as a youth
> session for a few days before Wikimania rather than depending a
> dedicated gettogether. Just like Hacking Days is a magnet for technie
> types to join together to learn, there could be a preconference track
> for younger folks who can decide for themselves if it's something
> they're into.
>
> Even if it's simply skills development, done in the context of
> Wikimania, it could get younger folks excited and involved. Some ideas
> might include - working with Wikimedia Commons, using Wikipedia in
> studies, media literacy, workshops on particular tasks. From a public
> relations angle, it's something that can show the Wikipedia community
> giving back to help train younger folks with the skills that have
> become second nature to Wikipedians.
>
> In fact, very few of these things are specific to being "youth" but
> rather providing a nurturing environment to recruit and train a
> younger generation of Wikipedians. (Actually, for Wikimania 2007, this
> might be good thing to do for the conference in general - tutorial
> tracks for folks who would like to learn the nuts and bolts of certain
> tasks.)
>
> Given recent questions about scalability of consensus, the poisonous
> RfA proceedings and trivia creeping into every corner of Wikipedia, we
> should be looking into more ways to keep the community healthy.
>
> -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
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