The three workshops in Far North Queensland (FNQ) went really well. They mark the end of our first year of outreach in collaboration with the State Library of Queensland.
We are waiting on a few receipts, however our estimate is that WMAU has spent less than $9,000 on all of the SLQ workshops to date. i.e. on average we are spending 50% of the allocated amount of $3,000 per workshop. A detailed report of expenditure will be available after our treasurer has the receipts from the final workshop in June. The investment by SLQ and the participating cultural organisations will be much higher, and includes inkind contributions of venues, catering provided by SLQ for the workshops held at Brisbane, and the time of the SLQ staff and the participants at these workshops. I've transcluded all of the training sessions onto a single page so that it is possible to see changes about them all together. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&limit=250&target=Wikipedia%3AGLAM%2FSLQ 21 of 68 draft articles have been published. Roughly 30%. I think that with a bit of effort we can push that towards 60%. A reasonable guess is that 70% of those workshop participants are women, and they are closely attached to libraries, and willing and able to provide sources. Most of them should have email enabled, and they will feel much more comfortable with email discussions rather than our talk pages, at least until they are a bit more experienced. The SLQ staff who have been organising these workshops and travelling with us can help reaching out to the participants via their networks: * Troykeith85 * Ruth_gardiner * Michelle Swales If you need help engaging with a participant, ask one of the trainers: * Wittylama * Whiteghost.ink * Chriswaterguy * Commander_Keane * Shiftchange * Lankiveil * John_Vandenberg A big thank you to two community members who have helped these sessions by editing most of the articles during every session: * 99of9 * Mattinbgn Thanks also to the Ozzies and Kiwis who have edited these pages during and after the sessions (random order): * saberwyn * Ariconte * Tabletop * Alan_Liefting * Tony1 * Graham87 * LauraHale * Anjwalker * Jenks24 * Shiftchange (also as Slqworkshop1) * Lankiveil * John_Vandenberg * Chriswaterguy * Commander_Keane * Markhurd * Grahamec * Samwilson * Cuddy_Wifter * Bilby * Bidgee * Whiteghost.ink * Jack_Greenmaven (please let me know if I have missed anyone) The participants really appreciate seeing the community involvement during the sessions, and as a presenter I sigh with relief when we start to see community edits occurring during lunch. The SLQ always hands out evaluation sheets using Likert scale, and except for the early sessions the results have been consistently 3-5, and many participants score the sessions with 4-5 only. Of course not every comes ready to write a good Wikipedia, and they are happy to leave better informed and/or prepared for subsequent training. An important result of the Brisbane and FNQ training is they have built a local team of people who can work together. There are now a few SLQ staff in Brisbane who are sufficiently skilled that they are able to help new contributors learning the basics. And several FNQ participants are keen to run similar workshops again without our involvement in order to keep practising. As can be seen from the changes list above, the FNQ participants are continuing to edit a week later. ;-) One in particular is editing the pages created by the other participants ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Idhs Several of drafts are DYK quality, and only need a bit more sourcing and polishing before DYK nomination. Some of them need to be stubbed and promoted as such, or rebuilt from scratch; this is a good strategy as these participants will feel engaged with the mainspace page because they created it, and they can find it easily using 'My contributions' - the training regulary points them towards this part of the interface, and the manual created by SLQ uses 'My contributions' as the way they can find and monitor their pages. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
