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Create an event page edit
I need to make an event page, for a contest or something else.
Six-account limit edit
You're going to give a workshop on how to edit Wikimedia projects or going to get students in a school or university to edit for the first time. Take care: no more than six people will be able to create their own accounts from the same IP.
Make it easy to identify student editors edit
Student contributions are being reverted or deleted, or student accounts have been blocked.
Icebreaker edit
You want to make the people attending your event relaxed, excited, and ready to work together.
Suggestions on how to complete a scholarship form for Wikimania edit
Some people write a lot in their forms but they sometime miss their personal contribution
A concise compendium to catastrophic conference calls edit
A conference call is coming? You know it’s gonna get boring? Here are a few ideas to spice things up, avoid oversharing, and make sure no one gets heard.
Preparation for Wikimania edit
The pattern aims at providing future Wikimania participants with tips on how to prepare for the conference.
A playful logo builds identity and invites interaction edit
Spaces on Wikipedia can sometimes be intimidating to newcomers who are afraid to jump in.
How to make editathons for new users more successful edit
Editing Wikipedia is not easy for new comers, and they are embarrassed when they realized actual Wikipedia-editing is different from what they thought.
Setting-up a conference registration form edit
This pattern is an outcome of organising Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 and observing other conferences registration process.
How to manage a Wikipedia awareness Video edit
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When things go wrong, just tell people edit
Everything has gone horribly wrong! Panic! Don't tell anyone, and maybe the problem will go away!
A fine selection of mistakes for organizing an international conference (and how to make sure you commit them) edit
A short guide to bad projects edit
Make volunteers provide activity report before reimbursing them edit
Volunteers are very enthusiastic to organize and host activities, but may not be very interested in providing an activity report and metrics after the event is done. Activity reports for each activity are necessary in order to produce reports required as part of the WMF's grant process.
Wikiblitz edit
Edit-a-thons can become training events, without accomplishing much.
Writing a production schedule of event edit
To run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
Number of images or media used in Wikimedia projects edit
Media contributions are most valuable when they are integrated into Wikimedia projects.
Calculating global metrics edit
You need to measure your project's output according to the global metrics specified by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Tracking an online campaign edit
It is difficult to track new user registrations that come from a specific event or online campaign.
Tracking user contributions by chapter edit
Difficulties in tracking user contributions by chapter.
Framing survey questions edit
If people misunderstand your survey questions, they may not answer them the way you intended.
Cookies by the exit edit
Post-event surveys are a great way to gather feedback and contact information from participants; but people get distracted and often don't fill them out.
Feedback cycle edit
Even promising ideas with detailed project plans and broad appeal can fail to achieve their goals if what they produce is not useful and relevant to the right people.
How to avoid abandoning the course when your students have intellectual or mental disabilities edit
Psiquiatric patients tend to abandon the editing course and you may feel frustrated.
Creation of an editing workshop or course with patients in an institution. edit
You want to coordinate an editing workshop or course with patients at an institution.The project may be delayed due to possible interferences.
Wikimedia young projects in therapy settings with psychiatric patients. edit
This is intended for small projects that need to grow and need to attract new users.
How to choose patients for an editing teaching course edit
You need to select mental patients for your course.
Supporting volunteers in administration edit
Groups of volunteers doing Wikimedia activities may become overwhelmed and demotivated by the amount of administration work that is required to be done to sustain their activities.
Clarity of expectations when setting up a partnership edit
Clear agreement between the partners about the intended impact of the project creates a helpful focus to direct programme’s efforts. Having broad and flexible objectives is a strength of a programme, but not at the cost of unclear expectations from both partners.
How to survive to an international edit-a-thon when you're the only coordinator edit
Since 2013, the small team of WikiFranca dedicated to the coordination of the International Francophone Contribution Month, is made up of only one person! How to manage not to drown in all the discussions, requests and global coordination when you are alone?
Developing a fully internationalized and centralized gadget edit
How to fully centralize and internationalize a gadget
Wikidata mass imports edit
You have a large corpus of data that you want to migrate to Wikidata, and you want to do it right.
Storytelling for grant reports and proposals: tricks of the trade edit
Good proposals and reports are more than sheer facts and numbers, they tell stories which make people understand what's great about your work.
Volunteers versus journalists: the evergreen questions edit
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Book swapping table at your event edit
Paper books are endangered, these days!
Firm foundation for projects edit
Projects that require a lot of preliminary work before they can start, or depend on many external factors, easily get bogged down and may fail to achieve their goals.
Wikimedian in Residence Support Group edit
Wikimedians in residence working in isolation, with no standardised support
Teaching new editors about copyright edit
Students or workshop participants are making copyright violations.
Expert involvement edit
You don't have all the skills or knowledge needed to accomplish your project alone.
Finding programmers for a WMF grant edit
You need developers to work on a Wikimedia grant proposal
Reducing the north–south divide edit
There is a giant gap between countries of the global south and those of the north when it comes to producing south-related free content.
Turning geeks to Wikipedians edit
Geeks are the people who are obsessed with specific interest and are potentially very good wikipedians. What makes them excited in volunteering for wikipedia.
Public policy work: How to have an effective meeting edit
Volunteer Wikimedians sometimes don't manage to get their message across or the leave the best possible impression at meetings with decision-makers.
©©-Change your mind - a fun workshop for open licenses edit
Keeping communities engaged edit
Wikimedia has communities of supporters who are not necessarily of the work carried out by organisations they support.
Communities of Interest to Recruit Volunteers edit
Finding new volunteers who understand the fun in Wikipedia Editing and can involve in movement is not an easy task.
Effectively using the pre-event period edit
In most of the theme-specific training activities, participants don't get enough time to understand and practice the concepts or tools discussed. This will have a negative effect on the overall outcome of the event or a project.
Advanced workshop with focused and dedicated participants edit
In several workshops you may find mixed audience, which is actually a hindrance towards conducting an advanced-level workshop smoothly.
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Making the Digital Library of India really useful edit
Digital library of india is a big online books repository for indic languages. But it's not well categorized and the metadata is not easily found in search engine queries or even in that website's queries also.
How to write a thousand articles about your country without getting tired (workshops) edit
Several topics concerning your country do not yet exist in Wikipedia? You could create them yourself, but it's a colossal job and you could have it for years ... maybe even centuries!
Mass messaging edit
How to get notices out to as many potential editors as possible
Spread cuteness edit
It is difficult to start a conversation with strangers during large conferences.
How to involve cultural partner as active GLAM participants edit
Cultural institutions are one of the most important partners for the Wikimedia movement. Sometime, the role of the cultural institutions is passive; we approach their heritage and they invite us to perform activities, but, how can we make organizations become active?
Division of tasks and responsibilities between board, staff and volunteers edit
When Wikimedia chapters decide to hire staff, the question arises who is responsible for what. Unclarity can lead to problems, frustration and conflicts.
Wikidata verification-pages tool edit
How do we get all democratic political data into Wikidata?
Git repository for software edit
Dealing with multiple versions of software or components of it can easily become messy
Harvesting new Wikimedians from social media edit
Ensuring your wiki project is inclusive edit
Issues of race, gender, and sexuality representation among Wikipedia editors
Disengaging from Wikipedia warfare edit
You have just discovered that an edit you or a trainee have proudly made is being unfairly attacked by other user(s). Soon enough you get embroiled in the discussion and can't resist retorting the accusations.
Make use of mistakes on Wikipedia edit
Some outreach events are not used for (first-time) Wikipedia editing on-site because a short amount of time and other circumstances seem to be disadvantageous for this kind of immediate Wikipedia experience.
Use tags to count and track edits edit
A Short Guide to Using Twitter for In-event Engagement edit
Using Twitter for your chapter or affiliate's social media outreach?
New users are afraid of doing something wrong edit
An editor is reluctant to contribute because they are unsure whether their idea is helpful or not.
Training senior citizens edit
Senior citizens represent a large and ofter very educated part of our society, yet are underrepresented among Wikipedia editors and attempts to reach to them bring special challenges.
Creating new articles edit
Creating a new biographical article is very intimidating for new editors.
Capturing User names at workshops edit
With workshops one of the key points to retention is being able to assist participants. Another is being able to identify the impact of an event, this provides a method to accurately capture usernames.
Photographic evidence edit
Words can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.
Posters that work edit
Posters are meant to be glanced at, pointed at, and talked about—not read like a book.
How to prepare an infographics edit
Infographics can be a great way to make sense of complex data and share it with the public. Creating an infographic with a designer is a task, which has to have a plan and tips to create solid infographics to be kept in mind.
Writing a new MediaWiki extension for deployment on a Wikimedia project edit
You want to improve the software that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Working with developers who are not Wikimedians edit
Coordinating developers who are not Wikimedians
Wikiblabla (confusing Wikimedia lexicon) edit
The Wikimedia movement has a large variety of assonant terms which mean different things but they are confusing and mysterious for the majority of humankind.
Child room edit
Taking care of children while attending a conference is difficult.
Lightning talks edit
During conferences, it may not be possible to provide stage-time to all participants who want to talk.
Volunteers versus journalists: top-of-mind considerations edit
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Vote Matching Tool (Digital-o-Mat) edit
Digital policy is insufficiently represented in the German election campaigns and discussions.
Using expense-tracking software edit
Many projects, programs or whole grants start accumulating dozens of receipts to be paid out to various people. At some point this gets confusing and your accountant will go crazy.
Digitizing archival records edit
You are digitizing records from an archives to upload to Wikimedia Commons
Workshop size edit
Many editing events are way too big and are less effective because of this.
Repeat events edit
Newbies attending edit-a-thons are not motivated by a single event. They do not sustain their interest levels if they are not motivated further.
Number of active editors involved edit
Engaging and retaining productive Wikimedia contributors is as important as recruiting new ones.
International events? Allow three months for visa formalities edit
If your Wikimedia event is open to international visitors you never know which country they will be from. Don't assume that everyone is travelling on a EU passport.
Arranging travel edit
Centering Marginalised Knowledge edit
The knowledge of marginalised communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects?
Organizing "Wiki Loves" campaigns edit
Often people come up with "Wiki Loves" initiatives and face problems regarding planning, and understanding the scope and potential of the campaign.
Achievable goals edit
Even impactful projects may look unimpressive if the project team sets unrealistic goals, or doesn't develop some way to measure their progress ahead of time.
How to measure from a gender perspective edit
Wikipedia faces the challenge of including more women editors . This situation involves creating spaces in our programs for women to be part of them. The evaluation through gender perspective is essential .
How to create or edit an article in terms of gender approach edit
Wikipedia faces the challenge of approaching properly the gender gap issue in terms of its content.
Wikimedia events and Instructional design edit
How to make Wikimedia events instructionally guided
How might folks stay engaged? edit
Many emerging communities or communities are confronted with the problems of engagement, motivation or how to retain their members; here are some orientations, result of experience
Find free license videos on YouTube for Wikipedia edit
Publishers on YouTube have the option of publishing their material under a CreativeCommons-Attribution 2.0 license.
IRL video broadcast is a winning horse. Can Wikimedia projects bet on it? edit
With limited resources, the wisdom shared during conferences remain limited among the participants only as it is practically hard to live broadcast or record everything. Similarly, smaller Wikimedia communities cannot have a wider engagement with potential readers and contributors.
Uploading video materials to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia edit
Video is still relatively rare in articles on Wikipedia. It could potentially enrich the encyclopedia and make it more attractive to younger audiences.
Uploading videos to Wikimedia Commons edit
You want to upload videos to Wikimedia Commons
Quiet room edit
Some conference participants need rest, sleep or personal time.
How to write communications materials with a balanced portrayal of women and men edit
When developing communications materials it is important to give a balanced portrayal of men and women, not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of quality.
Como ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres en nuestras comunicaciones. edit
Al desarrollar materiales de comunicación, es importante ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres, no solo en términos de cantidad sino también en términos de calidad.
Do not overload edit
During outreach events, there is a tendency that the mentor gives too much information to the newbies. This makes newbies overwhelmed.
Grant reporting for volunteers. Part 2: Financial report edit
Tips about preparing grant' financial reports from the perspective of user groups or individuals.
Grant reporting for volunteers. Part 1: Report of project activities edit
Tips about preparing the report of project activities from the perspective of user groups or individuals
Promoting the work of students as part of Wikiedu programs on social media platforms edit
Plan an education program pilot edit
You want to start a new education program and you don't know if you need to start with a pilot or with an entire program.
MediaWiki Education Program edit
For the students who can code but don't possess writing skills
Wikipedian KulTour – the little sister of GLAM on Tour edit
Documenting your event experience edit
Attending an event can be overwhelming, and it is easy to forget what you did, who you talked to and what sessions you attended.
Checking bias and prejudice in grants advisory processes edit
I attended a training session held at Wikimania for members of grants advisors/ adjudicators
Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit edit
Recruiting advisors, course creators & writers, collaborators for a diversity and inclusion project.
Let the community know edit
You have an awesome idea for a project or activity, but it will only succeed if enough of the right people participate.
5 articles game edit
Understanding Wikipedia, Wikimedia and their communities is challenging. We can start building understanding by having anyone writing 5 articles for Wikipedia.
Using the Programs & Events Dashboard for Reporting edit
The Program & Events Dashboard is a valuable reporting tool, but implementation is sometimes inconsistent when working with a large number of organizers or events.
Be flexible and work with the audience you have edit
Nuances in a new program deviated from expectations during the workshop and our plan for it
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Matching newcomers to Wikimedia projects and activities: nurturing happy, passionate editors:) edit
You've attracted newbies to your program or event but you don't know how to motivate them to stay as editors.
Wall of compliments edit
Many people are not admired and encouraged adequately for their successes at workshops and conferences.
Conference workshop to help kickstart a project on a smaller language Wikipedia edit
How can you learn from other’s who have experience in doing a project you are about to start (and know almost nothing about)?
Collaborated with Government organisations, What's next? edit
Managing the resources from large content donors are often difficult.
Colored lanyards edit
It is hard to know the photography preferences of the participants at conferences.
First edit edit
A brand new user has no idea on where to start editing, and might start with something that is very hard.
Go the extra mile, and then search for treasure edit
Technical innovation, in a popular area
Let the media know edit
You planned an awesome event or activity, but too few people showed up, or no one found out about the awesomeness afterwards.
Filling content gaps edit
The pattern presents several ways filling content gaps on Wikipedia.
How to make a multi-day editathon? edit
Use Wikimedia content to assist teaching Wikipedia edit
Sometimes what we are trying to teach does not get the attention it should to have a result.
Engage with public broadcasters edit
Public Broadcasters and the Wikimedia movement to a large degree exist with the same purpose in mind: educating and informing. How can they collaborate?
Mode of training edit
Most training and recruitment sessions, or Wikimedia clinics, have an acute way of training new recruits or even people who have a fair knowledge of WIkipedia and its sister projects.
What to do when airplane lets you down edit
This Learning Pattern provides pointers on what to do when your plane is delayed or cancelled on your way to a Wikip/media event.
Watchlist invites edit
You are running an event and you want to invite Wikimedians.
The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly edit
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual conference for Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation and its committees. In the past, there have been complaints by newcomers, that integrating into this conference has become difficult.
Conference venues edit
Allow audience to browse multiple threads of interest in a physical conference?
Safe space policy edit
Some people do not feel welcome at events because of previously having a hostile encounter at a similar event.
Planning effective conference sessions edit
Conference sessions are often planned at the last minute with little consideration for goals, expected outcomes, audience preparation, or follow-up.
Wikipedia as a tool for astronomy education and outreach edit
Wikipedia is a key resource for anyone curious about astronomy. Therefore, ensuring there is quality and accurate astronomy information on Wikipedia in many languages is critical.
Uploading files using Pattypan edit
How to successfully prepare and process batch upload using the tool Pattypan
How not to organize a conference edit
You're organizing a conference, and you think everything is too easy. That's no fun, right?
Data transfers to Wikimedia Commons: Sharing institutional archives edit
"WikTungi"-city based community group edit
Bringing Wikipedians at a common place regularly.
GLAM on Tour - connecting Wikipedians and cultural institutions on the local level edit
How to get diverse presenters at your conference (from a gender, Global South... perspective) edit
Gender and global diversity benefit our conferences! But it's not easy to get a diverse line-up of speakers. Interesting people might be too shy to apply, or too unexperienced in writing a good proposal.
Hiring an ED in your organisation edit
Offering best practices on how to go about hiring an ED for your organisation and what you should look out for.
Creating Guided Tours together with the Community edit
New users of Wikipedia often need to search for introductions in a very time-consuming way and are unable to find a solution on help pages quickly. To support them with guided tours, we aim to describe in this learning pattern how guided tours for new users can be created in cooperation with the community and with minimum effort by engaging the help of an external service provider.
You are teaching, but are they learning? edit
How can you tell if students or workshop participants understand and are using skills you have taught them?
Afterparty edit
People like to have some time to socialize with one another after a long day of events.
Social media edit
You run a social media account, but how do you maximize its effectiveness?
Project roles edit
Without assigned roles, sometimes important tasks don't get done.
Build trust to know what sort of challenges are coming up for the partner organisation edit
It can be hard to anticipate challenges experienced by a partner organisation. Those unplanned barriers can throw up barriers to the success of the project.
Securing project visibility and success by having a showcase early on edit
Having a breakthrough, tangible case study early enough in a partnership project is a powerful facilitator to generating additional support for the project to carry it forward. A successful case study project helps to illustrate the aims of a project.
Need to establish the digital skills level of the partner organisation edit
The projects within Wikimedian in Residence programme - such as a mass image upload - presupposes a range of conditions, for example internal copyright knowledge, clean databases, digital skills.
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Board roles edit
To function well, a board needs to understand what they are responsible for doing for the organization, and individual members and key office holders should also understand their roles. If these are not documented in a central location, roles may not be clear, or members may disagree about who is responsible for what. If board members do not agree on responsibilities, important tasks may be neglected and conflicts may arise.
Every new page starts off unwatched edit
Every new wiki page, starts with 1 watchlister (the author). It is hard to attract collaboration at an unknown destination.
Promote photo contests edit
Promote photo contests and events to reach new users.
Digitising books with minimal apparatus edit
Digitising books and archives often requires expensive scanning apparatus not available everywhere. This pattern provides alternate methods.
Digital information literacy with Wikipedia for public library staff edit
How can you use Wikipedia in libraries to facilitate digital information literacies?
Meeting the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia with online training edit
Public libraries and Wikipedia both are devoted to freely expanding access to information for all. However, the majority of US public library staff do not edit Wikipedia and 80% of US public libraries are small and rural, which means there are few opportunities to meet Wikipedians locally. How can an online training program effectively meet the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia?
Reach and engage your community edit
“It’s always the same few people doing things”: the core community of Wikimedians engaged in group activities or organizing events stays rather constant.
Bytes added to or removed from Wikimedia projects edit
The amount of content that a project has contributed to a Wikimedia project can be hard to measure.
Cooperative note-taking at meetings and workshops edit
Nobody likes note-taking for the rest.
Five tips for preparing a great conference edit
Conferences can be effective tools for solving problems; but they usually have little real impact.
Learning question edit
Did your work increase the motivation of contributors? How do you know?
Creating portals edit
The pattern explains the process of creating portals on Wikipedia.
Mix newcomers and veterans edit
Newcomers at editing events may be afraid of 'breaking' Wikipedia, or getting in trouble for editing.
Reporting Criteria edit
A short guide to in-kind donations edit
Finding sponsors for Wikimedia projects
Collecting usernames for in-person events edit
When collecting usernames for in-person events for data analysis on Wikimetrics, it can be tricky to gather all of the participants' usernames.
Categories edit
Best practices in training adults edit
We need to train people to contribute to Wikimedia and in general, the trainees will be adults. The only experience many volunteer trainers have is from when they were being taught as children. The result is that the remembered practices (good or bad) of their teachers will often be what they draw upon when they are training other adults. Those approaches may not be appropriate or effective..
Article assessment for student assignments edit
For teachers, a Wikipedia writing assignment is much more work than other writing assignments. They have to double check the content of the article, grammar, spelling and the validity of the sources.
Tips for reading project codes from pageviews data files edit
The pageviews data files use their own project codes with several formats.
Audience response system edit
During conferences, it is good to conduct a poll to know what the participants are thinking.
Using open licenses edit
Producing free knowledge outside the Wikimedia projects in a word of all rights reserved.
Country editor base survey of South Africa 2015 edit
It is often impossible or very difficult to know the community that a country wide chapter is founded to support.
Timing and tenaciousness - How to ensure high participation rates at post-conference surveys edit
Track Wikipedia "Knowledge Leafage" of each trainee edit
Education programs should evaluate trainees, trainers, methods and education program itself, or they are not acceptable education, nor can evolve.
Imagery for event promotion edit
Accurately conveying both the objective (subject-matter, technical) and subjective (social, emotional) gist of an event to a potential attendee is challenging, especially in written. This makes it especially hard to engage underrepresented audiences.
Using social media to promote endangered, indigenous and other marginalized languages edit
Using Wikidata on Wikipedia infoboxes edit
How can I enable Wikidata for an infobox on my language's Wikipedia without writing all the Lua scripts from scratch?
Number of women participating edit
Collecting data with personal information edit
It is very important to collect and store personal information carefully.
Business cards and email adresses for volunteers edit
Working with cultural institutions to upload archival photographs edit
You want to improve coverage of historic topics
Partnering with a government agency edit
You identify a government agency (at any level) with high-quality content that would benefit the Wikimedia projects.
Frugal video production for Wikimedia Commons edit
How to effectively produce videos and upload them on Wikimedia Commons with low bandwidth
Charts on wiki pages edit
How do you create editable charts and graphs on Wiki pages?
Cross chapter collaboration on wiki writing contest edit
How can two chapters organize parallel on wiki writing contest about each other’s countries in order to build a closer relationship between two chapters?
Conducting expeditions edit
The pattern aims at providing organisers of expeditions with detailed guidelines for efficient conducting of expeditions.
Find volunteers to support a program edit
You need volunteers to support a program online or offline.
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Community impact edit
You worked hard on a project you believe in, but no one seemed interested in what you made or wants to carry your work forward.
Qualtrics survey tool edit
You want to run a survey for your project. Free online survey tools usually only provide limited functionality, and better tools usually cost money.
How to prepare and plan for Online Edit-a-thons edit
While organizing an online Editathon, often it is difficult to track the numbers of articles created, articles created by number of participants, the total number of bytes added and many other problems.
Designing portals on wikis edit
You want to organize information in the form of a portal
How to avoid duplicated items during a museum based photography event edit
Sometimes it may happen that during a museum photothon some exhibited items were photographed multiple times, while others remained uncovered. Here is a simple idea how to avoid this situation.
Using Aggregate Groups to group pages for translation edit
When a resource you created has multiple wiki pages, and you use a navigation bar, contributing translations can become hard.
Bringing women together to work towards gender and linguistic inclusiveness edit
Low women participation in Wikipedia projects is known all over the world. There is less participation of women as well as less content related to women. Many languages are spoken in and around Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. Enriching these language Wikipedias and bringing more women into Wikipedia activities have to be achieved .
Learning from patterns edit
We need to make it easier for people to capture and share what they learn when they perform mission-aligned activities.
Searching the Learning Patterns Library edit
How can someone find patterns in the Learning Patterns Library that are relevant to his or her project?
Writing durable documentation edit
How to run software on a dedicated Wikimedia Cloud VPS server edit
Some services requires customized operating system environments or extensive computational resources beyond what is available in the toolforge environment.
Strategic planning retreat edit
The Wikimedia New York City chapter was supporting an increasingly diverse array of ambitious and challenging projects and events, and it became apparent that in order to support these activities properly, we needed a more cohesive strategy to manage them and report on their progress to chapter funders.
How to do photowalks more effectively edit
如何用360環景攝影機紀錄學術會議 edit
環景相機的架設位置和傳統攝影機不同,在舉辦維基演講或其他活動的時候,要在什麼地方架設這樣的攝影機最為適當?
Towards a Successful GLAM Partnership edit
Coding da Vinci - the culture hackathon edit
Wikiverse World Café - getting to know Wikimedia projects and volunteers edit
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¿Cómo hacer que los docentes se apropien de los proyectos de Wikimedia y los apliquen en el aula? edit
Contest prizes that motivate edit
Offer prizes that contest participants want to win.
Organize childcare during a Wikimedia event edit
More and more members of the community are parents
Qué canales podemos usar para hacer comunicación externa edit
La importancia de los talleres previos a las editatones edit
Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa edit
Inviting international delegates to an event, some of them are required to obtain a visa (sometimes even more due to a stop over in a country) in order to be able to travel and attend the event. Visa applications require careful preparation and a profound knowledge of the relevant processes and requirements behind it. Being not well prepared or informed about these facts, problems may arise. Occasionally, it happens that the invited guests experience obstacles in the visa application process or can’t even attend the event as a result of their visa request denial.
Documentation Friday edit
You want to get into the habit of writing documentation on a regular basis
Learn in detail about existing tools before building new ones edit
You need to write a new technical tool and there are already similar but unsuitable tools in existence.
Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference sessions edit
International travel edit
How can someone arrange safe and cost-effective international travel?
How to design and develop an education hackathon within the Wikipedia Education Program edit
Workshops and lectures for educators are traditional and in some point useless. Specially because these learning spaces don’t establish links between assistants or generate educational products. Most importantly, they do not generate a commitment to an education issue or present solutions to the educational realities of the attendees.
How to generate a stronger and more relevant relationship with the schools edit
Activities and proposals between the Wikimedia Education Programs and schools are usually punctual and an exceptional. It is possible to generate different strategies to promote a stronger and more relevant relations, to inspire long term projects and experiences.
How to transfer the knowledge and the experience of an Education Program edit
Transferring an experience like the design, implementation and evaluation of an education program is not always an easy task: what we share and how we do it, to make it a valuable contribution to a program that is starting or wants to be strengthened in some aspect.
Presenting wiki at an academic conference edit
How can Wikimedia contributors do outreach at a non-wiki academic conference?
Producing video oral histories about Wikimedia participants edit
Wikimedia project participants need a way to document what they do and why they do it.
Recruiting high school participants edit
Reaching out to high schools and generating interest.
Request brochures or other materials from WMF edit
You want to bring brochures, training guides or other materials to an event, but you don't have any yourself.
Setting goals for an education program edit
How do you know if your education program is successful?
Short reports go a long way edit
It can be hard to write a good report on complex projects in which multiple people are responsible for individual activities.
Step by step guide for finding the right venue for a conference edit
Strategies to achieve editing contest goals edit
You set great contest goals, now all you need is strategies to achieve them!
Survey legal practices around the world edit
Legal practices for surveys differ around the world
The pre-jury as a tool for community engagement edit
You conduct a photography contest like Wiki Loves Monuments several years in a row. Over time, how can you keep up or even intensify volunteer engagement?
Training educators how to use Wikimedia in the classroom edit
What do educators need to learn before using Wikimedia in course.
Treasures or landmines: detecting uncategorized, language-specific uploads in Commons edit
Inexperienced users often upload to Commons uncategorized, poorly described and then abandoned stuff, which remains invisible and unutilized for ages.
Understand local volunteers' characteristics and behavior to develop an effective program edit
Some programs were not tailored to the local volunteers' needs and wants and became ineffective.
Use advanced site notice to promote events edit
A low-cost solution to effectively promote an event to all readers on your Wikipedia
Using CentralNotice banners for surveys edit
Using Wikipedia's gaps as feminist teaching tools edit
There are many excellent resources for teaching with Wikipedia. But for feminist non-Wikipedian instructors limited by time or skill, it's not always feasible to devote time to including content editing in a course syllabus. What other ways can feminist non-Wikipedian instructors can use the encyclopedia in their instruction?
Using the education extension edit
As an education program leader, how do you manage course pages, facilitate community engagement with students, monitor user contributions and evaluate your program?
WLX jury benefitting from the wisdom of the Commons crowd edit
Imagine the awkward situation when after announcing the winners in a contest for encyclopedic photography, fake photomontage images are detected among the winners. Ooops!
When staff work with volunteers edit
Volunteers and staff don't always work together effectively
Wiki MOOC edit
Which scalable solution can we use to teach new contributors how to contribute to Wikimedia project?
Focus on content edit
Gender identity edit
Get the community involved early edit
What can you do to plan for success when teaching students to contribute to Wikimedia?
Help new editors learn Wikimarkup edit
New editors or students are making many mistakes with Wiki markup.
Help students and educators understand community rules and norms edit
Student and educator user pages, articles, edits or content are being deleted.
Hiring a metrics processor for a Wikimedia outreach project edit
The Wikimedia Foundation requests "global metrics" reporting when providing grant funding for Wikimedia outreach. Learning to report global metrics is its own skill set, as is making this data locally relevant.
How to access to lists of cultural heritage sites or monuments. edit
You want to organize a Wiki Loves Monuments contest, but it is difficult to obtain documentation of cultural heritage sites.
How to use the global metrics magic button edit
Identifying content gaps edit
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Improve photo quality with better cameras edit
Your community has good photographers, but they need better equipment.
Increase number of photos in use edit
Strategies to achieve goals to integrate photos from projects and contests into Wiki projects.
Keeping nonprofit organization insurance edit
Many nonprofit organizations keep insurance as a way to manage the liability they assume as an organization.
Making a centralized resource space specific to your GLAM edit
Providing the best resources for your institution to learn about Wikipedia
Monitor student contributions edit
You want to check student contributions for errors or monitor their progress on an education program assignment.
Motivating students to contribute to Wikimedia projects edit
How do you get students interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects as part of a course?
Number of articles created or improved in Wikimedia projects edit
Edits, files, and bytes contributed and other metrics may not totally represent the significance of content contributions that involve creating or improving many pages.
Number of individuals involved edit
It is easier to demonstrate impact if you can show who participated, or benefited, from your work.
Number of newly registered users edit
You need to represent the potential impact of your outreach project on the growth of the Wikimedia movement.
Organising a Wiki Takes... edit
Partnerships with ministries of education edit
You do not know if you need to work with the Ministry of Education in your region.
Photographing your local buildings edit
Plan a Wiki expedition edit
How to plan an enjoyable and effective Wiki expedition.
Plan aerial photography projects edit
How to plan an aerial photography project.
Annual Wikimedia CEE meeting: drafting the programme edit
Drafting the programme for the annual 3-day edition of a relatively large-scale regional event, such as the annual Wikimedia CEE Meeting, can be a daunting task.
Automobile travel edit
How can safe and cost-effective automobile travel to events be arranged?
Choosing an education program model edit
You want to start an education program, but you are not sure what kind of educators and students you should work with.
Community check-up: when online and offline communication becomes effective edit
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Conducting a semi-structured interview edit
Do you want to learn more about someone's perspective and experiences? Have you ever conducted an interview only to find you've very little usable information at the end?
Contests, giveaways and sweepstakes edit
Sweepstakes, contests, and giveaways have strict legal requirements
Counting featured, quality and valued content in Commons edit
In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
Create a community policy for education programs edit
The community is having frequent problems with students or new editors.
Don't fiddle with the AV edit
Sometimes, the audio-visual apparatus fails to work and the participants spend a lot of time to make it working.
Edit-a-thon worklists edit
You host an edit-a-thon and no one knows what to work on.
Edit 1 and Challenge 1 edit
Participation hasn't increased in the past seven years.
Facilitating social interaction at conferences edit
Failing at a crowdfunding campaign and what we can learn from it edit
The crowdfunding campaign for the German Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci did not reach its financial goal.
Evaluate student work edit
How to evaluate student contributions to Wikimedia for a grade or mark.
Adapt Wiki Loves contests to prevent burnout edit
How to change Wiki Loves contests to maintain volunteer and participant interest.
Project management for edit-a-thons edit
How do you keep all your ducks in a row to organize an edit-a-thon?
Writing legal disclaimers edit
This learning pattern gives guidance on how to find information about writing a legal disclaimer. This is not legal guidance, but information instead about how to obtain legal guidance.
Writing contest worklists edit
I do not know if I should make a work list for an editing contest.
Writing Contest Topic Selection edit
I want to pick a writing contest topic that will be popular with new or existing editors.
Working with an existing movement.... edit
Building enthusiasm, initiative and promoting a project
Working constructively with the Wikimedia community edit
Community members are reverting student edits or deleting user pages.
Wikipedia & Medicine: Practical Details for Educators edit
Are you a medical educator? Want to work with your students on adding quality medical content to Wikipedia and don't know how to get started?
Wiki Takes ... and those getting taken edit
Wiki Takes ... is free content generation with some cultural and social extras.
Wikimedia organizations can use the Reports page on Meta! edit
It can be difficult to find information about the accomplishments of Wikimedia organizations for somebody not already familiar with those organizations.
Wikipedia visual museum edit
There is no organization of historical images according to year, ethnicity or other categories related to historical interpretation on Wikipedia.
Why we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016 edit
Why we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016? edit
During the experiences developed in the long distance course, «Puentes entre las culturas escolares, digitales y libres» (Bridges between school, digital and free cultures) made in 2014 and 2015 we found the difficulty of engaging and supporting teachers in the course and in editing articles on Wikipedia.
Where to find survey data edit
WikiDay edit
Who should we survey? edit
What you learn from your survey, and how you can use that knowledge, depends who you ask (and how many people respond).
What to consider when we generated audiovisual materials? edit
Make audiovisuals material it´s not only hire a designer or editing a video. This work has several layers of analysis that should be considered. In many cases do not take notes of this and the goals are not fullfilled.
WMF Open Access Policy edit
What do you do with data from Wikimedia projects or research?
What to expect when doing a survey edit
Using structured assessment tools for development planning edit
Your organization needs to grow or you are trying to work out a strategic plan but you have trouble establishing priorities for development.
Volunteer feedback and follow-up edit
Volunteers are the lifeblood of every project, hence the need to retain them for future projects.
Using the general ledger and project codes to evaluate outcomes edit
How can we evaluate outcomes of particular programs as compared to their costs?
Using social media channels for editors retention edit
Using ordered response scales edit
Survey questions often ask for ordered responses, but it can be hard to think of them on the spot
Using drones for aerial photography for Commons and Wikipedia edit
Using mass message for surveys edit
Banners are not the only way to reach users quickly on-wiki
Using Wikidata to make Machine Translation dictionary entries edit
Expanding MT coverage with Wikipedia-relevant translations
Using QuickSurveys edit
Userpage organizer edit
Userpage or user page is used to organize your important details to remember, such as user languages, userboxes, etc. It formerly used as sliding, enabling users to scroll accurately between the skin.
Use work sheets for school students edit
Education uses work sheets for teaching in schools
Use of a single diagram to imprint Wikipedia basics onto newcomers edit
Introductory presentations to Wikipedia can be confusing as many new things have to be said
Use telephone calls or Skype to clarify questions early edit
Some people in important positions would not read their email, miss important information, and create inconsistency and confusion.
Use social media for promotion edit
Use an article nursery garden for each new editor edit
New editors are discouraged by old users' interventions and (secondary) cannot organize their work with ease. Less computer-literated people have a hard time trying to contribute.
Use cheatsheeting in the form of a collapsible toolbox edit
Slow access through help for immediately needed stuff
Use course pages to organize student assignments edit
How to keep course information organized in a central, public space so educators, volunteers and the community can identify student work?
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Travelling Wikimedians report to the stay-at-homes edit
How to make the most out of Wikimedians travelling to events for the wider community and how to overcome the limitations of written reports.
Travel policy − defining travel support conditions to further volunteer involvement edit
Translation edit
It is difficult to carry out evaluation and sharing because of language barriers
Tools for managing a survey project edit
Managing a survey project can be difficult
Track project hours in Google Calendar edit
How can we use Google Calendar to track of how many hours we have spent on a project?
Tracking contest submissions edit
I want to know the best way to track contest submissions.
Tips for surveys in google forms edit
Tools for communicating what Wikipedia is about edit
Most of the world doesn't know Wikipedia and what is about.
Tools are short-lived, so archive your pages edit
Unlike Wikis, tools are maintained by fewer people – the platform change very quickly and tools will no longer function.
Thanking users edit
Users can spend a lot of time on surveys and get survey fatigue
Testing survey questions edit
Third place for local groups edit
Local groups need a clearly identifiable meeting place to organize actions.
The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects edit
Many education programs have a closed proposal that do not include the teacher's own experiences and context, but expect them to apply certain practices any ways.
Survey legal practices in the E.U. edit
Survey qualitative analysis edit
It can be confusing how to do qualitative analysis for surveys
Sustaining dialogue with your community edit
To ensure there is a continuous conversation with the community about changes in processes by maintaining communication.
Surfacing activity edit
MediaWiki pages are static, but interactive group workspaces work need to be dynamic.
Surveys at different points edit
At different points in a process you need to get different kinds of information from participants.
Support a community of photographers edit
Get experienced photographers to continue to contribute quality images after photo contests have ended.
Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community edit
Storytelling over demonstration in a Wikipedia outreach edit
Some outreach program leaders manage to make a long time impact on many outreach participants where some fail to understand why their hard work did not paid for.
Staying connected to volunteer editors and potential editors through email blasts edit
Staying connected to volunteer editors and potential volunteers can be a challenge, especially if there is a lapse of time between events.
Social processes within communities edit
Basic issues and major discussions within the communities cannot be solved productively by the means available to the individual, and often prove to be unfruitful and frustrating. It is impossible to compensate those social dynamics with classic support methods, solely addressing material and organisational needs.
Statboard edit
Participants are not motivated to contribute throughout the duration of a month-long edit-a-thon
Sharing relevant information with the Wikimedia movement edit
Mutual experience and shared learnings are key to practice our culture of sharing. Given the sheer variety of international target groups and communication channels, how do we best get the word out about our publications?
Short-distance travel edit
How can safe and short-distance travel to events be arranged?
Show statistics to GLAM partners edit
Your GLAM partner wants to know how the media they have shared are being used.
Service Credit for University Students edit
We need to engage more undergraduate and graduate level students to edit Wikipedia.
Selecting winners of a large photo contest edit
Having over 10,000 submissions in a photo contest is great, but selecting winners is tricky
Set up a GitHub profile for your hack-a-thons edit
You are organizing a hack-a-thon and you want participants to share their work
Set test tasks for recruiting programmers edit
Recruiting inexperienced newcomers for open source software development projects is valuable, but it is a great risk if you don't know anything about the person yet.
Rejuvenating a dormant Wikipedia in incubator into an active live Wikipedia edit
Tulu Wikipedia started as an incubator project in 2008, there was some activity in 2008-09 and remained almost dormant till 2014. It needed to be made live.
Relicensing encyclopedic work under CC license to grow Wikisource and Wikipedia edit
Non availability of reliable resources in Telugu language, especially online, related to Telugu Language, Culture, Social and Political Aspects
Reimagining traditional classroom assignments edit
In India, the university students are expected to submit a report as part of their classroom assignments as paper work. However, the reports, post evaluation, never get published anywhere.
Saving Wikipedia from PR, and saving PR from Wikipedia edit
We all know PR editing happens on Wikipedia. How can we reduce the amount, and impact, of it?
Recipe for a strategic plan edit
Some groups, organizations, or projects want to develop longer term plans to guide them toward their long term goals
Regional action plan edit
The members, gathered in local groups, may have difficulty maintaining a group dynamic when not related to a specific action.
Recombine tiled images edit
Image banks sometimes tile large images to safe on server load. In order to get the full resolution image on Wikimedia Commons, these tiles need to be recombined
Recruiting contest judges edit
Find the right people and tools to judge a writing or photo contest.
Public contribution edit
How can we persuade the general public to contribute?
Quality content generation edit
There were very few articles related to women's studies and gender. In order to generate quality content, one of our institutional partner followed peer reviewing process and expert feedback from the faculty to create a quality article.
Qualtrics resources for surveys edit
Publication policy edit
Rail travel edit
Quick start to batch uploading in institutional partnerships edit
Introduction for beginner-level developers new to the Wikimedia sphere
Proofreading large amounts of text edit
Proofreading large amounts of text is a very demanding task. The process should be planned intelligently and operate in an "always learning" mode.
Prioritizing articles for improvement edit
Prioritizing articles when we are trying to improve quality is tough task. Especially when there are many articles and volunteers think that they should spend their time in improving most prior article to the project.
Privacy considerations for surveys edit
Surveys are great tools for collecting data, but caution should be taken when asking people for their information
Prepare the report at the beginning of your project and update it while the project is developing. edit
Whenever you make a project, you are expected to produce a report, but it is boring and when you finish the project you just wish to do something else.
Problem solving for education programs edit
Problems may come up when using Wikimedia in education.
Planning the overall direction of a project edit
When working in a team project, sometimes team members do not have the same overall idea for how the project should proceed, which might lead to a loss of overall direction
Plan meetings around document creation and revision edit
When working on a project with a team, it can take a lot of time to work on various documents when only one person is writing them.
Planning existing structures for ease of future access edit
To reduce the amount of future transition issues while a Project is currently being built
Planning a course or program where students will contribute to Wikimedia projects edit
How to plan a course, camp, workshop or other multi-session program that will teach students how to contribute to WIkimedia projects.
Photo training sessions edit
Help beginners to rejoin the volunteer photographers community
Peer support for new editors edit
New editors who are just learning to use Wikipedia benefit from a collaborative environment.
Overview of survey legal practices edit
Surveys involve data, which may involve laws
Pedagogical scenario implementation edit
Co-animate training on free licensing and on co-construction of knowledge through the Wikimedia projects to high school students.
Partnerships for contests edit
You are planning an event and want to work with another organization to provide prizes, promotion or support from subject experts.
Organising a photowalk for Wikimedia projects edit
Steps to follow while organising a photowalk for Wikimedia Commons.
Orienatation of students for WEP edit
While it is important for students to be integrated into Wikimedia movement, a generic orientation programme does not serve the purpose.
Orientation for WEP edit
Orientation programme for WEP activity usually involves a large crowd of 150-200 students.
Outreach to educators edit
You want to start an education program and are not sure how to find educators to collaborate with.
OER creation using Wikibooks edit
OER creation using Wikibooks. Creation of free content textbook using Wikibooks
Networking with outside experts to improve your project edit
You have a project idea that you believe is powerful but you don't have all the skills to make it real.
New faces for Wikimania: travel scholarships as prizes for Wiki contests edit
Many affiliates send volunteers to Wikimania. But can we ensure - espcially in smaller communities - that we don't only sent the same people every year.
Multiple project events edit
If you dealing with small human capacities so you want to address several different target groups at once.
Measuring a WikiProject's community and activity edit
You are interested in measuring a WikiProject's activity to determine how active it is as a project, or to determine its potential to become an active project.
Monitoring publicity for an event edit
How can we facilitate a range of people contributing to publicity for an event and monitor their effectiveness?
Monthly reports edit
It can be difficult for all-volunteer organizations to create an annual report each year at the time it is expected.
Managing the tech-pool edit
Many affiliates, one language community edit
Wikimedia affiliates addressing the same language community can lead to internal and external nebulosity and confusion.
Meals during conferences edit
Manage disputes edit
You want to resolve a disagreement between a student or educator and a Wikimedia community member.
Materials in their own language edit
To get the most out of an event, people need to understand what they hear and what they read.
Making panel discussions (or roundtables) more productive edit
Often during panel and round table discussions, there is a lot of discussion that essentially becomes pointless and/or directionless.
Making sure that the participants actually come to an event edit
Often, emails and text-messages are insufficient to attract volunteers. Some volunteers will say "yes" at first, but do not actually come at the D-day.
Making an annual financial report edit
Wikimedia organizations, and sometimes other organizations and individuals responsible to the movement, need a way to show what they spent and received during the year.
Making translation classes more interactive via Wikipedia edit
Wikipedia can be effective used as a rich resource for authentic texts for translation classes. Trainee translators can choose and translate their preferable texts from Wikipedia.
Making an annual report edit
Groups, organizations, and project leaders may find it difficult to summarize an entire year's worth of work in an annual report.
Leverage WMF relationship with Wikipedia Zero partners edit
It is sometimes hard to get local sponsors or partners to support one's activities and projects
Link to relevant learning patterns in proposals and reports edit
I need to connect proposal and report reviewers to relevant learning patterns.
Local standards of notability edit
New articles written by students or educators are being deleted.
Learning pattern needed edit
You come across an idea or concept that doesn't have a learning pattern
Lead a lobbying operation edit
How do we go about lobbying in competition with an enormous lobby?
Keeping documentation of discussions with team edit
In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
Keeping in touch with volunteers edit
There is a lack of a framework for supporting the volunteers and enabling mutual information sharing and collaboration.
Involving communities in your survey edit
Involving the community in developing a chapter workplan edit
Chapter workplans are developed by a small group and may not be representative of what is really needed
Is an online survey the right choice? edit
Is an online survey the right choice to solve a problem?
Increasing editor retention edit
Increase editor retention after a project or program ends.
Informal venue edit
You have a limited budget and want to host your event in a public place.
Improve photo contest results edit
How to improve quality, increase user retention or reach more participants through photo contests and events.
Improve the quality of articles written by new editors edit
Articles written by students or new editors can be low quality.
Improving your building photography edit
Identifying articles for translation edit
Translation content - especially in groups - is an effective way to build Wikipedia content. Finding gaps can be tricky if you are not familiar with a particular subject, and identifying priority areas to translate helps direct this work.
How to write an agreement with a GLAM or institution edit
Sometimes you need or you are asked to write an agreement with a GLAM or another institution to partner with it on the Wikimedia projects.
How to write a job description edit
You need to recruit your first paid employee, or a valued volunteer who will help your organization with specific tasks. You need this person to understand their role, and you need the organization to understand what they are doing too.
How to use active listening edit
It can be easy to dive into arguments with out truly listening to each other
How to talk to educators about using Wikimedia in the classroom edit
You don't know what the best messages and strategies are to speak to an educator about using Wikimedia in the classroom.
How to write a staffing plan edit
You need to have good practices in place before you take on the responsibility of paid staff or contractors.
How to podcast edit
How to make the most out of WMF site visits edit
WMF has been conducting site visits as part of their due dilligence reviews over the past few years. However, apart from the formalities these visits are agreat opportunity to showcase the work of affiliates and adressing grant making challenges on both sides.
How to set the number of images in an article and preserve the quality edit
How to teach primary students how to position their own pictures to improve Wikipedia articles.
How to start a Wiki Loves contest edit
You want to organize Wiki Love Monuments or Wiki Loves Earth for the first time.
How to improve the knowledge of your local culture in other Wikipedias edit
Wikipedia face the challenge of including articles that refer as much cultures as possible, properly.
How to introduce a new target group to free knowledge and open source edit
Reaching out to an audience which is not yet part of your community (e.g. game developers and designers) can be challenging, but has great potential to enlarge your existing community.
How to make an Educational Editathon without a good Internet's connectivity edit
In many remote schools far away from the big cities, the Internet connectivity is not good. Especially if many people connect at the same time. Educational editathons seeking to value local histories, so to realize them in these cities is essential to create installed capacity with the local people. In many cases, the geographical distance is big, so have a trip by the WMAR Staff or volunteers is something that we can do once or twice, I have to be an important and complete experience where we can detect potential ambassadors to enroll.
How to implement quality management in your organization or team edit
The more effective we collaborate in our organizations or project teams the more impact we can create with the available resources. Kaizen is a low-threshold approach achieve this.
How to generate new editors in onsite proposals with teachers edit
Often specific training are not enough for teachers to generate projects with Wikipedia in the classroom with good results.
How to generate engagement with students to become a Wikiambassador edit
Education proposals aimed often teachers, but students are valuable allies to motorize and actively accompany the Wikimedia projects in the classroom. Young people are active users of Wikipedia, recognizing its value as a reference, so that the interest of teachers in captivate their attention is already guaranteed. On the other hand are, students are great communicators of values and ways of Wikipedia.
How to generate publicity and foster collaboration: Organizing an event series edit
How to apply for a Simple Annual Plan Grant edit
Effective organizations and groups need funding for program expenses and operating expenses, but aren't able to undergo the rigorous FDC process.
How to create a campaign on Commons edit
A campaign on Wikimedia Commons has two goals: first, it is about generating easier access to photos of a certain institution or theme; second, participants of the campaign already have the category added to the photos they upload and can easily find all their files grouped in one place.
How to campaign on a political issue edit
Sometimes government and governmental bodies will propose policy and legislation that will have negative impact on the Wikimedia projects and free and open knowledge.
How to conduct interviews with your project partners edit
Storytelling about the work of your organization / group
How to build a core community from scratch using the local network of libraries edit
The Wikimedia movement is lacking new contributors, how can we solve the challenge of finding new users
How User Groups can select Wikimedia Conference Delegates edit
This pattern is intended to help User Groups in selecting appropriate delegates for Wikimedia Conference.
Hosting a multi-location gender gap edit-a-thon edit
Training women to participate in Wikipedia
Help the "deletionists' victims" edit
Many new but promising editors encounter that one of their articles gets marked for deletion.
Guía con criterios para evaluar artículos en un concurso edit
Cuando se hace un concurso online para crear artículos en Wikipedia, las evaluaciones suelen ser muy dispares y subjetivas
Guide for involving new volunteers edit
Sometimes we don't know how to match our projects with our existing volunteer community. We all lack volunteers when projects get deeper or bigger. How to deal with this?
Getting a sample of users edit
It is often impossible or very expensive to get information from an entire population
Getting enough sleep at multi-day events edit
Multi-day conferences and hackathons have a lot happening, and it can be easy to get swept up in it and not get enough sleep. This then devalues the subsequent day(s) of the event, which is bad.
Governance Codex edit
How to avoid typical rookie mistakes when hiring your first staff.
Get started with SMART program objectives! edit
Making good SMART program objectives is hard at first!
Following Wikipedia policies in gender gap events edit
How to better prepared the participants for the notability and verifiability guidelines during gender gap bridging events.
Forms with blank responses can be confusing! edit
Sometimes forms are incomplete because applicants and grantees can't answer a question that doesn't apply to them or their situation.
Fostering affinity groups edit
Women represent 9–20% of the Wikipedia editing community worldwide. It can be isolating and difficult for women to know how and when to call attention to the problem, and how to promote gender diversity on WIkipedia.
Festival advertisement edit
Wikimedia affiliates often face the organization of many events in a very short time.
Features requests for a software edit
After a software release and its spreading, users start to interact with it and rapidly they come up with many precious ideas. According to circumstances there are better ways to provide a channel for collecting them.
Featured Articles in classroom courses edit
Featured Articles are some of the most difficult to improve for new editors because the pages are already high-quality.
Facilitator's toolbox edit
During a conference, the facilitator’s toolbox ensures that the facilitator has all the tools they need. It may contain items for the facilitator's own use or items that the conference participants may need.
Fear of editing edit
Even with an Oxford degree, I don't feel qualified to edit.
Facilitating a productive discussion edit
Community discussions are an important tool for progress and decision making in our movement. In order to be productive, they usually require a discussion facilitator, who makes sure the discussion progresses as planned. What makes a good facilitator? What are some do's and don'ts for a successful facilitation process?
Extracting usernames listed on a wiki page edit
You need to extract a clean list of usernames from a wiki page
Facilitate the preparation of an FDC report edit
You do not want to lose your time in formatting the table and copy/pasting section that come from the proposal or a previous report
Event app for conferences edit
In large conferences with over 100 participants, it is not always possible to meet all participants and encourage conversations with all people. It is possible that one misses meeting people she/he intended to meet.
Event planning process edit
It is hard to remember all the variables involved when planning an event and even harder to assess how they will impact on one another. Leaving things out of the planning jeopardises success and creates more stress too.
Evaluating project outcomes edit
Writing project evaluations can be challenging if you cannot quantify what the outcomes of a project mean.
Enriching lists of monuments with coordinates edit
When lists of moments don't have coordinates, they can't be projected onto a map
Establish strong local support edit
If you are moving around internationally, don't underestimate the need for local knowledge.
Engaging volunteers with the grants process edit
Making the process of applying for grants more appealing and attractive.
Estimating and evaluating in-kind resources edit
Simple guidelines for obtaining data about in-kind resources of events
Engaging participants through critical theory edit
You want to encourage participation on Wikipedia to remediate systemic biases in Wikipedia's coverage
Engaging non-Wikipedian academic experts to identify content gaps edit
Non-Wikipedian experts are often interested in Wikipedia, but don't have the time to commit to editing. This learning pattern proposes a concrete way of engaging them
Editing leads to media literacy edit
How can you explain Wikipedia to a group of people without any Wikipedia experience by letting them write a Wikipedia article?
Edithaton evaluation form edit
When organizing a series of editathons, especially with mostly new editors, it is crucial to have their feedback in order to improve the methodology or approach according to the needs and comments of participants.
Editing and writing contest-planning templates edit
You want to plan an editing or writing contest.
Edit-a-thon in classroom edit
You are a Wikimedia Education Program manager/volunteer and you wish to collaborate with new high-schools, but it can be time consuming and the quality of outcome is at question.
EJemplo edit
Drop-in demo booth edit
Expos and other such events have a lot of exhibitors competing for attention and most potential visitors to your booth will have little knowledge of Wikimedia projects beforehand.
Donations segmentation edit
We need to increase the amount of direct donations we receive every year
Designing and developing for an active, existing project edit
Existing projects have strange, complicated requirements. Users can be highly resistant to change. Problems are complicated.
Developing strong relationships with donors - more than communication via banners edit
Developing a mission statement with your community edit
How to create a meaningful mission statement that your most important stakeholders can identify with.
Developing Apertium MT for your language in Content Translation edit
Creating a machine translator for your language
Define program goals and measures of success edit
The best programs focus on one or two realistic goals and have clear measures of success.
Dealing with authorities for institutional partnerships edit
Design of a proposed distance learning resource edit
How to generate a proposal for training on issues of digital culture and en:open educational resources
Delivering prizes edit
I need to send a prize, mini-grant or item to someone living in a different country.
Cultivating interest among the editors during activities edit
Editor retention, follow up and awareness
Data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in your Google spreadsheet edit
Not many in the Wikimedia community are well aware of running queries or even using tools to acquire different kinds of data-points.
Credit authors and partners edit
Creating a network of organizers edit
Burn out for multi-location edit-a-thon organizers
Creating an article right away edit
The learning curve for creating articles is far too high.
Create a portal for your education program edit
You don't know how best to organize and share localized or translated training and outreach materials with students and other educators.
Coordinating with a WikiProject edit
You are designing an outreach program and would like to address the needs of the online community
Continuous engagement of New Wikimedians. edit
Newbie biting is a major problem over Wikimedia movement and it reduces retention of newbie.
Contest scoring systems edit
You want to set up or improve an editing contest scoring system.
Contest bots edit
I don't have enough time to score, judge and track contest submissions manually.
Conducting user experience research edit
Streamlining the user experience for non-Wikipedians
Consolidate Wikipedia and Education using UNESCO's principles for education edit
Wikipedia is not well accepted in education
Conducting technical workshops and talks edit
Find some easy ways to teach people and encourage to contribute into Wikimedia/MediaWiki
Connectivity issues edit
What to do if you are in an activity (workshop, editathon, etc.) and there are problems with the Internet connection
Communications for surveys edit
Communicating results of your survey edit
Survey takers want to know - what will you do with their data?
Choose promising program participants edit
Demand for a program may exceed the resources you have available.
Choosing to meet up virtually or in person edit
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Cleaning the Augean stables: DIY discovery of fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff edit
Smaller wikis need relatively less maintenance efforts, but after longer periods of community inactivity, it becomes gradually more difficult to detect – and clean – fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff.
Bringing your students to edit-a-thons edit
You are an instructor and you want to teach your students about Wikipedia
Books from wiki pages edit
How to create a single document/book from multiple wiki pages
Birds of a feather edit
In large conferences, the participants do not get to meet people who have similar interests as they have.
Being the connector between GLAM partners and community edit
How can we connect GLAM partners and community members?
Batch categorizing users' photos in Wikimedia Commons edit
Sometimes, users in a photography project forget to categorize their photos as belonging or generated through the project
Asking the right questions edit
You need to make sure that you don't accidentally leave important questions out of your survey.
Appreciation of volunteer work IV: towards a culture of appreciation edit
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of Volunteer Work I: Give Individual Feedback edit
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of volunteer work II: make it tangible edit
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of volunteer work III: let others know edit
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
An advanced editing workshop: a social and professional get-together of new and veteran editors. edit
Air travel edit
A successful crowdfunding operation edit
We're trying to find new ways of financing projects
Accommodations at meetups edit
How can organizers arrange accomodations at meetups in a cost-effective way?
A short guide to the recording of high-quality audio samples for Wiktionary edit
A hybrid learning curve from a Wikipedia Education Program edit
It has always been a problem to cultivate new editors for Indian language Wikipedia projects as Indian languages are complex, and so are the input methods as learning the same is mostly not part of the school syllabus in India. Encyclopedic writing, Wiki markup and guidelines with an added layer of linguistic and language input complexity has been a bigger obstacle in cultivating new editors.