Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Interference Archive 2018 wikipedia programming/Report

Report accepted

Hi Interference Archive staff, thank you for submitting this final report. We have reviewed and accepted your expense documentation and this grant is now complete. Congratulations!

Thank you for sharing all you learned with WMF and the community. Here are some questions/points of reflection:

• We're happy you were able to recruit so many new editors! Do you know if any of them have continued to stay involved after the events?
• The Train the Trainers session sounds incredibly worthwhile. What takeaways would you share with other groups that are looking to organize a similar event?
• You mentioned that you might experiment with different outreach strategies due to lower-than-expected turnout at these events. Will you be implementing any new strategies for your 2019 events?

We welcome any addition learning you'd like to share with us or the community! Thank you for all your effort on this grant. Best wishes, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your feedback on this! With regards to your questions:

• With regards to engaging new editors: we've found that some of them have returned to subsequent editing events, but we don't feel like we've found the best mechanism for staying in communication with participants after events. Do you have any suggestions?
• We were also really pleased with how our Train the Trainers session worked out! I think it worked really well to go to a space that folks would be at (the Allied Media Conference), rather than try to bring that group of people into our own space. We had a captive audience at the conference, and they were ready and willing to have the conversations that we wanted to engage them in.
• With regards to outreach, we've focused our 2019 programming plan on doing edit-a-thons in conjunction with exhibitions that are happening in our space, which are being organized in collaboration with other organizations. We did one exhibition-related edit-a-thon in 2018 and it was our most successful, so we are continuing that strategy and planning to use our collaborator organizations from these exhibitions for help with outreach. We'll also be doing an Art + Feminism edit-a-thon again in 2019, but we've changed the structure to bring in new audiences: we'll have a guest speaker talking about her experience as a media maker in 1970s social movement organizing, to provide context for some of the source material that our archive offers people to use as source material in editing.

Perimeander (talk) 18:41, 9 February 2019 (UTC)