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Blog series What I Learned continues to share stories of Wikimedia programs in communities all over the world! In this second blog, we review one lesson shared by Wikimedia Serbia in their latest report, that describes what happened after a Wiki Photo School co-hosted with a local partner: Petnica Science Center. Read the blog, comment and share!
This new case study shows the first analysis of Wikimania, that looks only at the quantitative data pulled from the feedback survey after the conference was held. This data shows how Wikimedia's biggest conference impacts the movement and the projects that are carried out across the world. In a second phase, we will hold a learning circle to process the qualitative information and pull lessons learned. We believe this information will serve to improve the conference every year. Read the report and leave follow up questions on the Talk Page
The Learning and Evaluation Team Workshop Kits are aimed at helping community leaders lead peer and volunteer training. In each kit you will find all the steps you need to take to host a workshop, as well as infrastructure needed, and all the resources to present. All kits have a learning journal, for workshop hosts to be able to document their experience and share with other community members across the movement. The first two releases include Storytelling workshop and Fail Fest. We have expanded this page to include all workshops and training sessions hosted by Learning and Evaluation team: review the page now.
The Photo Contests and Events Toolkit is a step-by-step guide on how to implement this Wikimedia program in your local community. Find information on how to plan, run and evaluate Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth, and other photo contests and events. Connect with expert program leaders and find advice if it is your first time hosting this type of program, and offer your experience to others! Find out more on the initiative landing page.
In this new blog series, we will share a story a month that stems from the implementation and practice of Wikimedia programs in communities all over the world. In this first delivery, we review one lesson shared by Wikimedia Argentina in their latest report, that serves to describe the work done through their education program. Read the blog, comment and share!
The Learning and Evaluation team is happy to launch the fourth of a series of ten Wikimedia programs reports 2015! Find here Editathons Evaluation report 2015. Read the reports to understand how this Wikimedia program engages communities, to learn about user retention, and to see how effective writing contests are at expanding and improving content on Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage discussion around next steps! Contribute your views on the report's talk page. Think of next steps both as potential areas for further investigation and areas in which to improve tracking of inputs, outputs, and outcomes to improve future reports. Help us spread the word among program leaders!
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The last Learning Day summoned program leaders from different parts of the world in Mexico City. It was held in the pre-conference days to Wikimania 2015, and it was an opportunity for community members to share something they learned running a Wikimedia program, doing research or engaging the local community in other ways. Topics ranged from SMART proposals to engaging volunteers, and reporting and storytelling. Find the presentations, pictures and participants' feedback on the event page.
What does a Healthy Community look like to you? From July 16 to August 23, we are asking community members to give us feedback on what makes them feel welcome, unwelcome, what are the shared values that bring us together online, and what we could improve looking towards the next million users coming online. The results of the work on Community Health will be published after Wikimedia Conference USA, to be held in Washington DC from October 9 to 11, 2015.
In this blog, we announce the launch of two new products: the Writing Contest evaluation report and toolkit. Read the blog to understand how these two compliment each other, what information to find in each product and how to use them. Comment and share! Go to blog now.
The writing contests toolkit is a step-by-step guide on how to plan, run and evaluate editing competitions on Wikipedia. It was created gathering feedback from several program leaders who directed successful contests. Go to the toolkit to find the most typical format of editing competitions, and templates to plan them; find bots, scoring systems, experience working with volunteer roles, and more! Ask and answer questions in the Forum. Go to toolkit now.
The Learning and Evaluation team is happy to launch the third of a series of ten Wikimedia programs reports 2015! Find here Writing Contests Evaluation report 2015. Read the reports to understand how this Wikimedia program engages communities, to learn about user retention, and to see how effective writing contests are at expanding and improving content on Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage discussion around next steps! Contribute your views on the report's talk page. Think of next steps both as potential areas for further investigation and areas in which to improve tracking of inputs, outputs, and outcomes to improve future reports. Help us spread the word among program leaders!
We have expanded the page dedicated to the storytelling initiative. It now includes all the resources shared since this capacity development initiative started. Find all the resources you need, examples and case studies in the movement. Ask questions on the discussion page! Go to page.
In this new blogpost, we go over the last evaluation workshop, co-hosted by Partnerships team at Wikimedia Deutschland and Learning and Evaluation at Wikimedia Conference 2015, and other presentations and resources shared by Community Engagements teams. Find the resources that help you make your programs a success! Read the blogpost, comment and share.
In this event page, we captured the workshop outputs, how participants got engaged in conversation and the insights shared in the sessions. Learn about goals, hopes and fears, the work done on Logic Models and find the presentations shared during the sessions. This workshop was co-hosted together with Wikimedia Deutschland. Read more about it on the event page!
In this blog, we introduce the first two evaluation reports 2015: Wiki Loves Monuments and Other Photo Events. The blog highlights key takeaways from the reports and gives background on the Program Evaluation and Design initiative in the Wikimedia movement. We hope the reports will help readers understand how many new users are introduced to wiki projects through these programs, to learn about user retention, and to see how effective these programs are at expanding and improving content on Wikimedia projects. Help us spread the word among program leaders and think of next steps together! Read the blog now.
The Learning and Evaluation team is happy to launch the first two Wikimedia programs reports 2015! Find here Other Photo Events Evaluation report 2015. Read the reports to understand how many new users are introduced to wiki projects through Other Photo Events, to learn about user retention, and to see how effective this program is at expanding and improving content on Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage discussion around next steps! Contribute your views on the report's talk page. Think of next steps both as potential areas for further investigation and areas in which to improve tracking of inputs, outputs, and outcomes to improve future reports. Help us spread the word among program leaders!
The Learning and Evaluation team is happy to launch the first two Wikimedia programs reports 2015! Find here Wiki Loves Monuments Evaluation report 2015. Read the reports to understand how many new users are introduced to wiki projects through Wiki Loves Monuments, to learn about user retention, and to see how effective this program is at expanding and improving content on Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage discussion around next steps! Contribute your views on the report's talk page. Think of next steps both as potential areas for further investigation and areas in which to improve tracking of inputs, outputs, and outcomes to improve future reports. Help us spread the word among program leaders!
If you are planning to attend Wikimedia Conference 2015, we need your insights! We want to know which workshops and session offerings are most desired, and who among conference attendees are available to come to the pre-conference. Please fill out this survey with this information. Read the announcement here for more information. Help us spread the word among your colleagues!
We are pleased to inform that our proposed workshops for GLAM-Wiki Conference have been accepted! We will host two different workshops, both on Friday, April 11. We encourage program leaders to share their views, give us feedback and share your own experience in these topics. Learn more about them on the news page we created for both.
As the first experiment with learning event concludes, we find ourselves with a great turnout in Let's Talk Diversity campaign. We are excited with the results, and want to share with the community the report, that provides numbers as well as some insights and takeaways from the organizing team. If you have questions or comments, we'd love to read you! Make sure you leave a comment on the Report Talk Page. Thanks to all who took part: together we are learning best practices to better share what we now!
The Learning & Evaluation and the Education teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, together with the Education Collaborative, have created the Education Toolkit, the first in a series of program toolkits — guides for implementing effective Wikimedia programs. The program toolkits aim to share best practices among the experiences of Wikimedia program leaders from all over the world, to create a blueprint for designing successful Wikimedia programs. Explore the resource, expand it and make it yours! Go to toolkit now.
For many years, the Wikimedia movement has acknowledged that language, culture and gender diversity are vital for its goal to share the sum of all human knowledge. But we are still facing some challenges in supporting diversity across Wikimedia projects. To address these gaps, several initiatives have been set to foster a better understanding of this problem, and also to increasing diversity in participation and content coverage. The Learning and Evaluation team now wants to capture the learnings that stem from these initiatives: join Let's Talk Diversity!
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Learning and Evaluation team recently made its Learning Pattern Library easier to navigate. This special library is a shared resource for Wikimedia program leaders and organizations across the world, created to help them find learning patterns that are relevant to them. Read the blogpost and find out more!
How is Data Collection Round II going? What programs were captured so far? In this round, we found 733 program implementations, 571% more than last year; 157% more program leaders; and 197% more countries programs. But we know there is more out there! Read the blogpost to learn more. If your program is not on the program's list, reach out to us! Leave a comment on the blog, comment on our discussion page or email eval@wikimedia.org.