Learning and Evaluation/Evaluation reports/2015/Editathons/Outputs

Edit-a-thons

Summary

Limitations

Inputs

Outputs

Outcomes

Key findings

Appendix

On this page, you will find answers to: How many participants are involved in edit-a-thons? How much content is typically produced?

Participation

Event length Edit-a-thons ranged from 2 to 48 hours, and the average edit-a-thon is five hours long. Event length was reported for 99 (82%) of edit-a-thons included in this report. Edit-a-thon length ranged from 2 to 48 hours and averaged 5 hours. As the graph below shows, the majority of event lengths fell into either the 3-4 hour or 5-8 hour windows (both 34%), followed by 1-2 hours (21%) and over 8 hours (12%). Most edit-a-thons lasted between 3 and 6 hours. For this chart, event length categories were rounded to the nearest full hour. (Eg, an event that was 2.5 hours long falls in the 3-4 hour range while an event that was 2.4 hours falls in the 1-2 hour range). Welcome to Meta! Afrikaans | العربية | অসমীয়া | asturianu | azərbaycanca | Boarisch | беларуская | беларуская (тарашкевіца) | български | ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ | বাংলা | བོད་ཡིག | bosanski | català | کوردی | corsu | čeština | Cymraeg | dansk | Deutsch | Deutsch (Sie-Form) | Zazaki | ދިވެހިބަސް | Ελληνικά | emiliàn e rumagnòl | English | Esperanto | español | eesti | euskara | فارسی | suomi | français | Nordfriisk | Frysk | galego | Alemannisch | ગુજરાતી | עברית | हिन्दी | Fiji Hindi | hrvatski | magyar | հայերեն | interlingua | Bahasa Indonesia | Ido | íslenska | italiano | 日本語 | ქართული | ភាសាខ្មែរ | 한국어 | Qaraqalpaqsha | kar | kurdî | Limburgs | ລາວ | lietuvių | Minangkabau | македонски | മലയാളം | молдовеняскэ | Bahasa Melayu | မြန်မာဘာသာ | مازِرونی | Napulitano | नेपाली | Nederlands | norsk nynorsk | norsk | occitan | Kapampangan | Norfuk / Pitkern | polski | português | português do Brasil | پښتو | Runa Simi | română | русский | संस्कृतम् | sicilianu | سنڌي | Taclḥit | සිංහල | slovenčina | slovenščina | Soomaaliga | shqip | српски / srpski | svenska | ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ | ślůnski | தமிழ் | тоҷикӣ | ไทย | Türkmençe | Tagalog | Türkçe | татарча / tatarça | ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ  | українська | اردو | oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча | vèneto | Tiếng Việt | 吴语 | 粵語 | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/- Hello, Learning and Evaluation. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum if you need help with something (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Also worthwhile acquainting yourself with the functions of global user pages. Happy editing! Participation Participation averaged 14 users per event. Sixteen percent of participants in all the editathons were new users and 25% were existing active editors, while 15% were existing users who were not active and 44% were participants whose editing frequency could not be determined. The participant counts were obtained for 92% of edit-a-thons included in this report (111 edit-a-thons). Number of participants ranged from 1 to 300 and averaged 14. In these edit-a-thons, there were 354 new users (16% of participants) and 913 existing users (40% of participants). Twenty-five percent of users were existing active users (573 participants). However, for 44% of participants for whom user names were not reported, we cannot determine if they are new, existing, or existing active users. Thus, we must use caution when interpreting statistics drawn from participant counts such as retention or productivity, since these could vary widely based when considering a more complete set of users. EDT Participation 2015 Report On editors and content “...we held a series of editathons with Medical Research Council and the Royal Society. These introduced dozens of people to editing Wikipedia, and got them thinking about the coverage of women in science as we related it back to Ada Lovelace Day." Richard Nevell Wikimedia UK Cost per participant For the 17% of events for which participant and budget data were available the average cost per participant was $0.05 USD. Only 20 (17%) edit-a-thons had both budget and participant count data available. Cost per participant ranged from $0.00 USD to $26.32 USD and averaged $0.05 USD.