I'm very interested in this kind of thing, so much so that I'd like to
follow a similar model locally. I'm not sure that I live in a large enough
area to make it feasible, though. However, I think that it's a good model
to recruit and retain editors, especially women, who tend to like editing
in community. Wikimedia should pursue this.
As far as a name for regular editing sessions like this, it reminds me a
club--a group of people who meet regularly to accomplish some kind of task,
like a book club or Toastmasters. How about something like, "Wikipedians
Club". I'm sure there's a more creative name than that. And then we could
have individual chapters with more creative names, based on topic or
geography.
Christine
User:Figureskatingfan
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The key comment is this: “We are also considering
ways to get the
people most interested in going to those editathons to also run them
(empowering them, in effect).”
If edit-a-thons are to achieve scale, it’s necessary that once
established, the group will continue under its own momentum. This frees up
the original organisers (or new members who have “graduated” to become new
organisers) to move on and establish similar groups.
Just an aside, I think we need a different term for this kind of regular
edit session. Perhaps it’s just my own cultural baggage, but I associate
the “-a-thon” as a big once-off event e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra/2014-08-14-Wikibomb
rather than something smaller but more regular and ongoing. Maybe we
should call it an editfika J
Kerry
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