Thank you so much, Ian. Appreciate it. On Feb 13, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
>> Great :) I'd be really interested to know whether people continued to edit >> after the workshop if you could share. > To try answer Heather, the article count went from 125, which it has been > stuck at since at least November 2011, to 131 during the class, and there has > only been one substantial edit from any of the participants on the weekend (a > new article, increasing the count to 132) since the workshop, so the answer > seems to be no. > > The workshop was 2 hours, and, briefly, we hoped to teach creating a user > account, creating or editing (via translation from English) an article, > adding links, adding a picture, and I wanted to add interwiki links to the > list as well. Everyone created or edited an article, and most, if not > everyone, added links, though only some could create a user account due to IP > limits, and very few got to adding an image or interwiki links. Douglas goes > into more details in his post. > > It's more complicated to add links in Xhosa than in English due to the way > prefixes are used in the language, so quite often an article may exist, but > the link doesn't point to it, and there are already duplicate articles for > this reason. > > There is still such a barrier with basic computer use, that I found a > substantial portion of the class was showing people how to maximize and > minimize windows, how to open a new tab or window, etc, and I got the sense > that there wasn't always a real understanding of why the various steps were > being performed, which reduces the chances of them being repeatable outside > of the class. > > The one article that was created afterwards is an orphan, with no incoming or > outgoing links. > > There was a lot of enthusiasm, so hopefully having a followup quite soon will > keep the interest and momentum going, but I would expect there to be not much > sustained activity as a result of the workshop alone. > > -- > Ian Gilfillan > www.greenman.co.za > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza Heather Ford www.ethnographymatters.net @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org
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