TL;DR:
* Learning and Evaluation sessions at Wikimedia Conference USA 2015 [1]
* What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina [2]
* Vote to name the new Wikimedia Surveys site! [3]
* New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons [4]
Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!
Important updates from Learning and Evaluation:
== October 9-11: L&E at Wikimedia Conference USA [1] ==
The Learning and Evaluation team will be involved in two different sessions
at Wikimedia Conference USA, to be held in Washington DC from October 9 to
October 11, 2015.
* Community Health Clinic: Researching prescription for healthy communities
(Saturday, October 10, 3:45 pm)
What are the characteristics of a healthy Wikimedia Community? What are
communities doing to promote the welcoming and retention of new editors and
contributors and support overall civility? In this session we will review
what we have learned from recent and past Wikimedia research on community
health as well as discover what other organizations are doing to support
robust online communities.
* Creative Program Design Workshop
(Sunday, October 11, 11:45 am)
In what ways might we create and improve Wikimedia outreach programs using
creative problem solving techniques? In this 75 minutes workshop you will
work with other program leaders to create and improve Wikimedia outreach
programs using a creative problem solving process. Bring back to your
community the best thinking of other program leaders for new and improved
programs, as well as a process you can use to engage your community
volunteers in creative program design.
== What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina [2] ==
In September, we published the first blogpost of the new blog series “What
I Learned”. In this new delivery, Wikimedia Argentina expands on a lesson
shared in the last progress report: how to build a shared foundation to
work with educators. The goal of this series is to both showcase a the work
done on a community, as well as promote reports as learning resources. We
aim at co-editing blogs with community members, and we will publish one
story a month, on the third week of every month. Read the blog, comment and
share! [2]
== Vote on the name for new wikimedia survey site! [3] ==
We are working to create a new site where you can find resources and direct
support from WMF staff for your surveys. This service will be available to
anyone and everyone in the Wikimedia movement. We would like your help to
choose a name that makes sense to you and that is most welcoming to anyone
in our movement:
You can vote and add your own idea in the link below. Vote as many times as
you like!
http://allourideas.org/wikimediasurveys
== New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons [4] ==
If you missed the virtual panel on editathons, you can now revisit the meet
up on our Youtube channel [4]. During this panel, Greta Doçi (Albanian
Wikipedia), Nikola Kalchev (Bulgaria Wikipedia), and Iván Martínez (Spanish
Wikipedia) shared their experience running editathons. In this rich and
diverse encounter, community members that joined the conversation, were
able to ask questions first hand to program leaders. All the session was
documented on an etherpad [4], and the slides are also available now online
[4].
As always, stay up to date with upcoming news and events by following our
events page [5]!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[1] L&E Sessions at Wikimedia Conference USA:
* Community Health Clinic:
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Community_Health_Clinic:…
* Creative Program Design Workshop:
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Creative_Program_Design_…
[2] What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/29/wikipedia-education-argentina/
[3] Vote to help chose a site name for Wikimedia surveys:
http://allourideas.org/wikimediasurveys
[4] New video: Virtual Panel on Edit-a-thons:
* Virtual panel video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXsSnF2sWw
* Etherpad of the session:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Editathons_and_Workshops
* Slides shared:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Learning_Circle_on_Editathons_-_Sli…
* Evaluation Report Snapshot short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ER0YCdRDyk
[5] Upcoming Events Section in Evaluation Portal:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News#upcoming-events