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. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/GLAM_challenge>
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 -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
