Thanks for the feedback, Romaine!
To your question, we have indeed observed this in some communities, and have heard in interviews about the value and motivating force of "editing as a group". We gave this some expression in the "Off wiki events" section[1], and is indeed something that seems to work well in some (most?) communities.
That said, these pages do not presume to be comprehensive, of course, and neither the "challenges" nor the "potential approaches" sections should be read as exclusive. We welcome constructive contributions to those pages (keeping in mind that the goal of the pages is to inform conversations about actual capacity-building projects).
Cheers,
Asaf
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development/New_contribut...
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Asaf,
It sounds interesting, but I do not have a clear idea how to proceed.
Like Capacity 4: New contributor engagement and growth. We organise a lot of edit-a-thons and workshops with new contributors and one of the things we sense is that the new users are willing to continue after the workshop, but experience it as difficult and have no idea how to proceed. This can be described as empty feeling, but this perspective as I described, is not represented in the paragraph about empty feeling. Noticing the reactions we got and the needs they described, it does not match with the section of possible approaches. For them it is not a grace period, personalised welcomes, or recognition, but they miss a way to keep a social interaction with the group as they had such with the workshop/edit-a-thon about a theme. Mentorship can be something, but as I tried that, it is pretty difficult and extremely time sensitive in the current situation to keep following a group of users. It is more, they like to work together easily instead of having to look op all sorts of pages (Contibutions, Watchlist, Project page, and so on).
So I think our issue matches for a part with this page, but I do not know how to continue and do not know if this would fit here.
I also see in other capacities points that are interesting, but I am not sure how to have it on the local wiki itself.
Greetings, Romaine
2015-08-26 1:40 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org:
Dear Wikimedians,
{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and growth; partnerships; communications}}
==Details== This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations (rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and
pilot
solutions together.
The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather information about existing and missing capacities. Reviewing those interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful
to
work together on.
We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your feedback!
Contributions
to those pages can be done in the following ways:
- Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to
implement
certain practices described,
- Provide more links to resources,
- Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or projects to build capacity.
During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community interest, scale of community, and scale of readership. We expect some of the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources [re-]usable by other communities as well.
==Join the Conversation== We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically,
to
see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community. If they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
Asaf Bartov Sati Houston Community Engagement department -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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