i agree the trend is low undergraduate attendance if not part of grade some campus marketing (fliers, partnership with groups seems in order) but we don't have a handle on it. major divide between readers and editors seems hard to close.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi GG mailing list and Maria from WMF Eval, > > Cascadia Wikimedians ran a series of editathons at the University of > Washington with themes like "Women and astronomy" and "Women and Health > Sciences". We did some communications through the University's Facebook > pages and mailing lists. While we had regular attendance from veteran > Wikipedians and from university librarians, we had very little attendance > from current students on campus who we had hoped would attend. > > I heard from a female undergraduate that there was buzz and interest on > campus in what we were doing, but few people took the next step of coming > to one of our events. > > Another comment I heard at Wikiconference USA is that university > editathons are most successful if there's a current undergraduate on campus > who is interested and recruits their friends. In the absence of that, the > university editathon model tends to have mediocre outcomes. > > Any suggestions about how to increase attendance if we decide to try this > again in the future? > > Thanks, > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > 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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