Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[Brianna Laugher]

Good news...Gnangarra has volunteered to coordinate it and we are all
systems go! With prizes, even!



cheers
Brianna



2009/6/16 Liam Wyatt :
> Yeah - I don't imaging we'll be holding anyone to a particular external
> standard like FA or GA, but rather to intrinsic standards like "most
> improved" or "most new stubs" or "most challenging topic" that kind of
> thing. And yes, there is not a long lead time for this, but then again,
> that's not the end of the world. We've already have two major institutions
> offer to donate a prize for the comp - and no, it's not something from their
> collection :-)
>
> Best,
> Liam, [[witty lama]]
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Brianna Laugher
>  wrote:
>>
>> Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble
>> holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to
>> just make it a weekend!
>>
>> Brianna
>>
>>
>> 2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher :
>> > 2009/6/16 YellowMonkey :
>> >> Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
>> >> speaking)
>> >
>> > Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA
>> > approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just
>> > be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able
>> > to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it
>> > does end up getting FA status.
>> >
>> > Does that make sense?
>> >
>> > cheers
>> > Brianna
>> >
>> >
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[Liam Wyatt]

Yeah - I don't imaging we'll be holding anyone to a particular external
standard like FA or GA, but rather to intrinsic standards like "most
improved" or "most new stubs" or "most challenging topic" that kind of
thing. And yes, there is not a long lead time for this, but then again,
that's not the end of the world. We've already have two major institutions
offer to donate a prize for the comp - and no, it's not something from their
collection :-)

Best,
Liam, [[witty lama]]

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Brianna Laugher  wrote:

> Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble
> holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to
> just make it a weekend!
>
> Brianna
>
>
> 2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher :
> > 2009/6/16 YellowMonkey :
> >> Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
> >> speaking)
> >
> > Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA
> > approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just
> > be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able
> > to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it
> > does end up getting FA status.
> >
> > Does that make sense?
> >
> > cheers
> > Brianna
> >
> >
> > --
> > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> > http://modernthings.org/
> >
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[Brianna Laugher]

Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble
holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to
just make it a weekend!

Brianna


2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher :
> 2009/6/16 YellowMonkey :
>> Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
>> speaking)
>
> Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA
> approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just
> be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able
> to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it
> does end up getting FA status.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> cheers
> Brianna
>
>
> --
> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> http://modernthings.org/
>



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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[Brianna Laugher]

2009/6/16 YellowMonkey :
> Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
> speaking)

Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA
approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just
be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able
to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it
does end up getting FA status.

Does that make sense?

cheers
Brianna


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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[YellowMonkey]

Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
speaking)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Brianna Laugher
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to say that Wikimedia Australia is going to embark on its
> first projects-based 'event' - an "editors' challenge" (light-hearted
> editing competition) with the theme of "Australian GLAM". The aim is
> to improve the coverage and quality of Australian GLAM-related topics
> across the projects.
> 
>
> The plan is to hold it over the week of July 13-19th which is still
> about 4 weeks away. Any registered user will be able to take part.
>
> At this point I'm looking to appoint someone to be the coordinator for
> the event.  The coordinator's responsibilities would be to raise
> awareness of the event in the lead-up, answer onwiki queries, and then
> check submissions for validity. Maybe also help gather prizes. The
> coordinator will get help from the committee, especially me and Liam,
> if they need it, but we won't be running the show. If we can't appoint
> a coordinator I don't think it will run.
>
> The judges will likely consist of the coordinator, a WMAU ctte member
> and someone from a GLAM instutition. The judges would choose the
> winning entrants (according to how many prizes there are) and choose a
> title for each award (like "Most impressive expansion of an existing
> article"... or maybe something more interesting-sounding!).
>
> If you are interested in coordinating the GLAM Challenge, please reply
> to me OFF-LIST within the next week or so. You don't have to have done
> any kind of organising before, but a strong familiarity with the norms
> of the Wikimedia projects would be a good idea. :)
>
> If you have any thoughts about the event itself feel free to edit the
> wiki page or shoot a line back here.
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
>
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[Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator

[Brianna Laugher]

Hi all,

I'm happy to say that Wikimedia Australia is going to embark on its
first projects-based 'event' - an "editors' challenge" (light-hearted
editing competition) with the theme of "Australian GLAM". The aim is
to improve the coverage and quality of Australian GLAM-related topics
across the projects.


The plan is to hold it over the week of July 13-19th which is still
about 4 weeks away. Any registered user will be able to take part.

At this point I'm looking to appoint someone to be the coordinator for
the event.  The coordinator's responsibilities would be to raise
awareness of the event in the lead-up, answer onwiki queries, and then
check submissions for validity. Maybe also help gather prizes. The
coordinator will get help from the committee, especially me and Liam,
if they need it, but we won't be running the show. If we can't appoint
a coordinator I don't think it will run.

The judges will likely consist of the coordinator, a WMAU ctte member
and someone from a GLAM instutition. The judges would choose the
winning entrants (according to how many prizes there are) and choose a
title for each award (like "Most impressive expansion of an existing
article"... or maybe something more interesting-sounding!).

If you are interested in coordinating the GLAM Challenge, please reply
to me OFF-LIST within the next week or so. You don't have to have done
any kind of organising before, but a strong familiarity with the norms
of the Wikimedia projects would be a good idea. :)

If you have any thoughts about the event itself feel free to edit the
wiki page or shoot a line back here.

cheers,
Brianna

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