Derric, Per Jane, unfortunately that is about the scale of editathons that we tend to see in the U.S. unless you have a developed community in a metropolitan area. Sometimes it helps to thematize events around a topic of interest to a particular community already. That being said good job! We need more people being bold and innovative!
Alex On Jun 16, 2014 1:33 PM, "Jane Darnell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Derric, > That's great, and I think 9 is a good number for the states. Time will > tell whether the newbies stick around... > Jane > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Derric Atzrott < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good day all, >> >> >> I just wanted to let you know that our edit-a-thon at the C. Burr Artz >> Library’s Maryland Room (archives) was a success. We had 9 people show up, >> 3 new editors, and 2 new people make accounts (one already had one that >> just had never been used). We also had one person who just came to see the >> presentation, but didn’t actually create an account. >> >> >> >> We created 2 new articles, actually photographed a few local buildings >> that had articles, but no photos, and made modifications to four other >> articles. The edit-a-thon was not quite as productive as I would have >> liked, but everyone still had a good time and some folks new to Wikimedia >> learned who we are and what we are about. >> >> >> >> I’ll have a full write-up, with what I learned and advise for future >> organisers along with detailed results, on-wiki a bit later, but I wanted >> to give a brief summary here now. I’ll email again once I’ve done the full >> write-up. >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Derric Atzrott >> >> Computer Specialist >> >> Alizee Pathology >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > >
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