Suggest the first session might fulfil three needs 1. Get some people trained (ie see above) as a trial to see what skills they need. 2. Get these people started and get them some buddies. The U.S. Campus ambassadors have a virtual help room where people can ask for help 3. Work out how this expands ... because it is going to and we will quickly run out of helpers and organisers if we don't make it scale (I can hear a voice saying "train the trainers")
4. OK lets not foget 1. Roger On 12 December 2011 22:44, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > I was talking to Gordon Joly and Philafrenzy about this at the Wikimeet > and I think the collective feeling was that contact before and after an > editing session is important as well as the event itself. > > I can certainly think of events where lots of people have turned up, but > none of the new wannabe Wikipedians has gone on to contribute after the > event - perhaps this could be improved by some friendly emails afterwards > offering to continue the help offered on the day. > > I think we're definitely learning more about how we do these things, and > hopefully these events - whatever form they end up taking - will continue > that. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin Chair WMUK <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board> 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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