I'm excited to see what comes from WMNL's events, Jane! In terms of the "5 editors for 5 months" metric, here's one more benchmark, taken from Keilana's reporting on regular social edit-a-thons for women at Loyola:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Development/Final#Progress_towards_targets_and_goals >From the report: "I held social editing workshops at Loyola 7 times over 3 months, with around 5-8 people (96% women) per session, and 7 women formed a core editing group that came to most sections. Together, we created 72 articles." She notes that only 1 participant turned into a "born Wikipedian" who edited outside of the regular events, though. WMF's program evaluation team told me that, compared to other editing workshops they'd looked at ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2013/Editing_workshops), this project's impact in terms of recruiting women and converting them into editors was achieved at a higher rate. It feels like we're still missing lots of data for setting good benchmarks though. I tend to think that the more we use similar evaluation tools and share reports back into the pool, the smarter we'll all get about addressing the gender gap. To that end, echoing the suggestion to visit the program evaluation portal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation Cheers! Siko On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, J Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > yes, Wikimedia DC was using some opt in tracking of editathons outcomes. > and reporting activity in annual report > http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_report_%282012%E2%80%932013%29 > > there are some case studies at GLAM wiki > > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Archives_of_American_Art/2014_Update > > but the evaluation team has the tools and methods > they have a portal > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/29/evaluation-portal-on-meta-a-redesigned-space-for-learning/ > > jim hayes > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that the evaluation team are working on other tools as well, but >> I am not sure. We haven't used their tools for our editathons, although >> they are probably better than our self-edited stats, since our goal is also >> to have fun :-) >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Lennart Guldbrandsson >> >> 070 - 207 80 05 >> http://www.*elementx*.se <http://www.elementx.se> >> *Skriv som ett proffs <http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/>* - >> min senaste bok >> Få regelbundna skrivtips direkt till din inkorg >> <http://elementx.us7.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=ab2080465c6cd11b5b253f940&id=8a2b974a62> >> >> @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>*. Det är vårt mål.*" >> Jimmy Wales >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 14:49:23 +0100 >> >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and >> literature >> >> Thanks! I was told we are using some tools internally to track specific >> edit-a-thon outcomes - is this what you mean? We want to track more than >> just edit-a-thon outcomes though >> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Very cool! Good luck to you. Just a quick response to the first question: >> >> I definitely think it's doable to get 5 editors to stay on for 5 months. >> The evaluation team should be able to help you with tools and guides to >> measure this. >> >> My advice is to use the person-to-person method. That is, you invite a >> few female friends. Some will find it interesting. Make sure that it's a >> friendly space they come to. And some will come back. If you're a few >> regular people doing this, 5 should be on the low side for the Netherlands. >> We have about done it in Sweden without much effort, and with a little >> effort we could make it 10 (it's just been a busy time for me and a few >> others in the regular group). >> >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Lennart Guldbrandsson >> >> 070 - 207 80 05 >> http://www.*elementx*.se <http://www.elementx.se> >> *Skriv som ett proffs <http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/>* - >> min senaste bok >> Få regelbundna skrivtips direkt till din inkorg >> <http://elementx.us7.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=ab2080465c6cd11b5b253f940&id=8a2b974a62> >> >> @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>*. Det är vårt mål.*" >> Jimmy Wales >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:43:58 +0100 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and >> literature >> >> Hi Lennart and others, >> We had a short meeting yesterday in Utrecht to discuss the Gendergap and >> also our plans for the upcoming Art & Feminism weekend of 7 & 8 March. >> Wikimedia Netherlands will co-host an edit-a-thon at the Amsterdam >> Stedelijk Museum and we also plan to host an international writing >> challenge lasting the entire weekend, directed at experienced "challenge >> writers". Since WMNL has also set aside some funding for Gendergap this >> year, we were also talking about other plans. One thing that we decided to >> do is to set aside one "Wiki-Saturday" per month for the Gendergap in all >> of its Wiki(p/m)edia aspects, but with the emphasis on the social side of >> things as an in-person meetup. We will be announcing the "Saturday meetups" >> in the Stedelijk venue. >> >> Based on our meeting, I have done some searching around and have the >> following questions: >> 1) I was wondering if anyone had any measurable outcomes for such an >> investment of time and funds? We tentatively had a year-target of >> attracting 5 new women editors that remain active for at least 5 months. I >> have doubts whether this is measurable or even realistic. >> Thoughts anyone? >> 2) I noticed that though we seem to have lots of women artists on >> Wikipedia, we are still missing articles about their artworks or list >> articles of their artworks. In a category on the English Wikipedia for >> "Lists of works of art" I noted an odd mish-mash of lists which include >> lists of works by 66 men and only 4 women (I just created the list for >> Judith Leyster and hope to make list articles for two more Dutch women >> artists before March). Would anyone here be interested in building a list >> of their favorite female artist? This will be a nice-to-have for 7&8 March >> writers browsing for something to write about, as most museums have works >> by women in the collections, but they are just not on show. If a work is in >> one of the national museums it is encyclopedic enough to write about. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Jane >> >> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> My draft is now up at: >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Regular_editathons_in_Sweden_about_women_and_literature >> >> Anyone who wants to help with grammar and other language stuff (English >> is my second language after all), feel free. Your help is appreciated. >> >> >> 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>*. Det är vårt mål.*" >> Jimmy Wales >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 08:17:27 -0800 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and >> literature >> >> Big smile on my face... I love the idea of regular editathons. I've never >> been to a knitting/quilting circle but I imagine a group of women editing >> Wikipedia would have a similar look and feel. Piggy-backing on the WMDC >> "salons" might be a way forward as facilitating an "editathon" requires >> quite a bit of the facilitator, while a regularly scheduled editing-circle >> or editing-salon wouldn't require a facilitator at all. I think that would >> be easier to sustain and replicate. >> >> -Rosie >> user:Rosiestep >> >> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, >> including unsubscribing, please visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, >> including unsubscribing, please visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, >> including unsubscribing, please visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 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