Two things about the name: 1) in Swedish we don't call them editathons, but "skrivstuga/skrivstugor" (editing cottage/editing cottages).
2) the suffix "athon" comes from Marathon, a long-distance run. Considering that this event is even longer than any normal editathon, it's arguably even more appropriate ;-) But I see your point. Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson 070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete Skriv som ett proffs - min senaste bok http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg Presentation @aliasHannibal - på Twitter "Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål." Jimmy Wales Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:30:29 -0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature 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. ChristineUser:Figureskatingfan On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Christine____________________Christine W. Meyer [email protected] 208/310-1549 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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