Rather than making edit-a-thons more restrictive, our project in DC is
doing the opposite - having a Wikipedia on-ramp available five days a week,
in one of the most high profile places in the US, at the National Archives
(NARA).
Wikipedia Space is a project launching by July 2015 at the NARA Innovation
Hub where any GLAM professional or member of the general public can learn
about Wikipedia and free culture in a standing facility and immediately
contribute content.
Details here:
http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201450237/
Feel free to contact me for anyone interested in pitching in.
-Andrew
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I really like editathons because of the ease with
which they can be
designed to address systemic bias, but I'm not sure having them supported
by the Foundation is optimal from the perspective of time and money both.
Therefore, I propose that someone try some editathons where half the
tickets are auctioned, the other half are raffled, and the Foundation pays
to support them if and only if the auction fails to pay all of the expenses
in advance, and then only the difference. This will allow them to become
more exclusive, but not completely exclusive, and it will incentivize the
organizing wikipedians by allowing them to pay themselves some contingent
portion of the proceeds to be negotiated with the Foundation, and which
could, for example, include an open-ended proportion of auction proceeds.
Please share your thoughts on this proposal. I am also making diagrams for
nine of the twelve steps listed on
http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
and its talk page, where I will soon be proposing a different alternate
funding model to avoid relying on Google Summer of Code. I would also be
most interested in comments on that. Thank you!
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