Dear Lennart, This is fantastic! I think it does a lot to prove just how useful a small, regular, focused workshop model is. I'm very impressed by the amazing things that you've accomplished this year! Congratulations!
-Emily On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Sarah Stierch <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Lennart! > > A blog post would be awesome about this -I'm sure the program evaluation > folks at WMF would love to see it on the Wikimedia blog. Having it as a > blog would make it easier to share with a wider audience off this list. > > Great work that continues to be done in Sweden!! :) > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Since this is the start of the new year, let me just shortly let you know >> (or remind you) about what one thing we've done in Sweden last year and a >> little about what we've learned. >> >> We started in March in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden, to >> hold weekly editathons. The topic was formally "female main characters" >> ("kvinnliga huvudpersoner"), but we essentially let people write about what >> they wanted, and tried to gently steer them towards literature and/or >> women. It could be female authors, or seminal works in womens' literature >> such as "The Mad Woman in the Attic". We welcomed people of all sexes. >> >> Altogether we ran 35 editathons each running on a Tuesday from 13.00 >> onwards, editing in over 100 different articles, with about different 15 >> Wikipedians. The result was 11 articles reaching "recommended status" >> (ranking just below Good articles) with more on their way. (We of course >> want to improve on this for next year.) A full list of articles worked on, >> sorted on how far they've come can be found on our project page: >> >> >> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudpersoner_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia#Skapade_och_f.C3.B6rb.C3.A4ttrade_artiklar_.28s.C3.A5_h.C3.A4r_l.C3.A5ngt.29 >> >> This initiative is one of the most publicised Wikipedia/Wikimedia events >> in Sweden during the year with two national radio interviews, two podcast >> interviews and several articles. There has been no negative reactions >> (which I am beginning to understand needs specifying) as far as I am aware >> of. We have presented this on flyers and on the large Book Fair in >> Gothenburg, and have started to get a very good reputation. We are hoping >> to see the same sort of regular editathon thing getting off the ground in >> other cities in Sweden during 2015. >> >> So, what have we learned? >> >> * we could not have done this but for a small group of dedicated people >> who showed up nearly every time. We were four persons (two female, two >> male). "All volunteers" led to very little bureaucracy during the >> editathons themselves and sometimes editathons running over by several >> hours. Making sure that the editathons didn't depend on any one person was >> an early priority. >> >> * we had access to a free space with wifi and a kitchen. Each time, >> Wikimedia Sverige sponsored coffee/tea, sandwiches and fruit - and >> gingersnaps and other seasonal treats. Don't underestimate the power of >> "fika" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_%28coffee_break%29). All in >> all, the cost of all 35 editathons was around 240-250 USD. >> >> * we have two lines of communication: both the project page, and our >> Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/213852525478532/, where >> we could remind people to come and get them to invite others who aren't on >> Wikipedia yet. Personal invitations works much better in the long run - >> getting people to come back week after week. >> >> * the topic was very well chosen. Many are interested in literature and >> the topic is underdeveloped on Wikipedia, so it's easy to explain the need >> to outsiders. But it has also been good to allow some leeway and not >> adhering strictly to any predetermined list of articles to edit. Sometimes >> interesting topics crop up in conversation or a bad article was discovered >> during fact checking and then we've encouraged people to edit that article. >> >> * some people have wished for the editathons to be held on other >> days/other times. It may have contributed to the sometimes very low >> attendance rates. We've tried to taken that into account, and are thinking >> about how to manage regular weekend editathons. We are also considering >> ways to get the people most interested in going to those editathons to also >> run them (empowering them, in effect). >> >> * there are always going to be a few people who only come one time, just >> to check what we're about. Especially after we put in weekly small ads (for >> free). We took turns doing the introduction and making sure they made a few >> edits, so that as many Wikipedians as possible had done it, and also to >> make sure that the Wikipedians themselves could have time to edit. That's >> also how we tried to do with the radio and pod cast interviews, to prevent >> any one person "the representative Wikipedian". >> >> * you also shouldn't underestimate how much this is a way for stressed >> Wikipedians with normally very little time to edit Wikipedia to set aside >> time to do it. >> >> Finally, just FYI. During the winter holiday, when the editathons had a >> few weeks off, demand for more meetings was so high that we organised a >> Hangout remote editathon session just to relieve our feelings of abstinence >> :-) >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Lennart Guldbrandsson >> >> 070 - 207 80 05 >> http://www.elementx.se - arbete >> Skriv som ett proffs <http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/> - >> min senaste bok >> http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg >> Presentation <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%c3%83%c2%a4ndare:Hannibal> >> @aliasHannibal <http://twitter.com/AliasHannibal> - på Twitter >> >> "*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri >> tillgång till **världens samlade kunskap* >> <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida>*. 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