[Foundation-l] Fwd: India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

[Anirudh Bhati]

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From: Hisham <hisham at wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March
29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi Folks

Reminder about the IRC later today (9pm IST on March 29th.)  Join in using
this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.

As I had indicated earlier, what we will do going forward is to publish an
opening statement - which is below.  We'd like to have a rich discussion
around these topics for 45 minutes and then throw it open for 15 minutes
for any other topics that anyone wants to discuss.

There have been more than 22 outreach sesssions (English + some Indic
languages) across India over the past 2 1/2 months.   We have been working
on constantly every component of outreach.

* Pre-session work - building supporting material (documents,
presentations, handouts etc), evaluating different ways of conducting an
effective outreach, using different ways to reach out to organisations with
the proposal to conduct a session etc.

* Session work - adopting different techniques of doing  outreach, how do
we get participants more involved during the session, how to filter out the
folks so that we do the editing session only with the  genuinely interested
participants, how to balance between practical and theoretical aspects of
training, how much information to give out in one session etc.

* Post-session work - how do we provide editing support to the
participants, how do we collect their contact information, how do we keep
in touch with them on regular basis, how do we invite them to join other
Wiki projects, how do we track their edit count - soon after the session,
after 1 and 3 months of conducting the session etc.

We'd like to discuss these.  In the IRC, the following will be covered:

* Indic Outreach: How can we do more outreach session in Indic langauges in
particular? / Can regional communities work to translate supporting
material? / How do we provide more support to different language
communities to conduct these sessions?

* More Outreach:  If we are doing 7 outreach session in one month right now
is there a way of us doing 10 every month? / Can we find more community
members who will be willing to conduct these session? / For community
members who are interested to conduct outreach sessions but think they lack
confidence - is there a way we can help them?

* Better Outreach: Can we find some volunteers who will be willing to
"adopt" these newbies and give them support? .

*I'd strongly encourage all those folks who have been actively involved in
conducting these sessions over the past 2 months to join this IRC. It will
be great if you could share your first hand experience with the wider
community on what worked, what didn't, what we could have done better etc.
I especially do want to ask Indic Wikimedians to join because we
desperately need more outreach sessions in Indic languages.*

We will also briefly address the early stages of the communications work -
which are the storytelling and Wikipatrika support that was announced
yesterday.  Given it's early days on communications, I'd prefer this IRC
stay largely focussed on outreach since there is so much to work through
there.

See you all there!

Apologies for sending this note this morning and not last night as I had
promised.


   *hisham*

p.s. There is a (tiny) possibility that I might be slightly late but you'll
all be in Nitika's safe hands.  I shall try and my level best to be on time.

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