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Create an event pageEdit
I need to make an event page, for a contest or something else.
Six-account limitEdit
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 editorsEdit
Student contributions are being reverted or deleted, or student accounts have been blocked.
IcebreakerEdit
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 WikimaniaEdit
Some people write a lot in their forms but they sometime miss their personal contribution
A concise compendium to catastrophic conference callsEdit
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 WikimaniaEdit
The pattern aims at providing future Wikimania participants with tips on how to prepare for the conference.
A playful logo builds identity and invites interactionEdit
Spaces on Wikipedia can sometimes be intimidating to newcomers who are afraid to jump in.
How to make editathons for new users more successfulEdit
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 formEdit
This pattern is an outcome of organising Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 and observing other conferences registration process.
How to manage a Wikipedia awareness VideoEdit
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When things go wrong, just tell peopleEdit
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 projectsEdit
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Make volunteers provide activity report before reimbursing themEdit
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.
WikiblitzEdit
Edit-a-thons can become training events, without accomplishing much.
Writing a production schedule of eventEdit
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 projectsEdit
Media contributions are most valuable when they are integrated into Wikimedia projects.
Calculating global metricsEdit
You need to measure your project's output according to the global metrics specified by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Tracking an online campaignEdit
It is difficult to track new user registrations that come from a specific event or online campaign.
Tracking user contributions by chapterEdit
Difficulties in tracking user contributions by chapter.
Framing survey questionsEdit
If people misunderstand your survey questions, they may not answer them the way you intended.
Cookies by the exitEdit
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 cycleEdit
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 disabilitiesEdit
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 courseEdit
You need to select mental patients for your course.
Supporting volunteers in administrationEdit
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 partnershipEdit
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 coordinatorEdit
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 gadgetEdit
How to fully centralize and internationalize a gadget
Wikidata mass importsEdit
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 tradeEdit
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 questionsEdit
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 eventEdit
Paper books are endangered, these days!
Firm foundation for projectsEdit
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 GroupEdit
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Wikimedians in residence working in isolation, with no standardised support
Teaching new editors about copyrightEdit
Students or workshop participants are making copyright violations.
Expert involvementEdit
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You don't have all the skills or knowledge needed to accomplish your project alone.
Finding programmers for a WMF grantEdit
You need developers to work on a Wikimedia grant proposal
Reducing the north–south divideEdit
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 WikipediansEdit
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 meetingEdit
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 licensesEdit
Keeping communities engagedEdit
Wikimedia has communities of supporters who are not necessarily of the work carried out by organisations they support.
Communities of Interest to Recruit VolunteersEdit
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 periodEdit
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 participantsEdit
In several workshops you may find mixed audience, which is actually a hindrance towards conducting an advanced-level workshop smoothly.
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Understanding the shared goals of an external organisation and Wikimedia can be very helpful to understand how they can work together
Making the Digital Library of India really usefulEdit
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 messagingEdit
How to get notices out to as many potential editors as possible
Spread cutenessEdit
It is difficult to start a conversation with strangers during large conferences.
How to involve cultural partner as active GLAM participantsEdit
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 volunteersEdit
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 toolEdit
How do we get all democratic political data into Wikidata?
Git repository for softwareEdit
Dealing with multiple versions of software or components of it can easily become messy
Harvesting new Wikimedians from social mediaEdit
Often times, especially in the case of Indian languages, the major road block in recruiting new editors is in language input.
Ensuring your wiki project is inclusiveEdit
Issues of race, gender, and sexuality representation among Wikipedia editors
Disengaging from Wikipedia warfareEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
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 editsEdit
How to count and track edits in activities where users improve wiki projects
A Short Guide to Using Twitter for In-event EngagementEdit
Using Twitter for your chapter or affiliate's social media outreach?
New users are afraid of doing something wrongEdit
An editor is reluctant to contribute because they are unsure whether their idea is helpful or not.
Training senior citizensEdit
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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 articlesEdit
Creating a new biographical article is very intimidating for new editors.
Capturing User names at workshopsEdit
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 evidenceEdit
Words can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.
Posters that workEdit
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Posters are meant to be glanced at, pointed at, and talked about—not read like a book.
How to prepare an infographicsEdit
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 projectEdit
You want to improve the software that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Working with developers who are not WikimediansEdit
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 roomEdit
Taking care of children while attending a conference is difficult.
Lightning talksEdit
During conferences, it may not be possible to provide stage-time to all participants who want to talk.
Volunteers versus journalists: top-of-mind considerationsEdit
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 softwareEdit
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 recordsEdit
You are digitizing records from an archives to upload to Wikimedia Commons
Workshop sizeEdit
Many editing events are way too big and are less effective because of this.
Repeat eventsEdit
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 involvedEdit
Engaging and retaining productive Wikimedia contributors is as important as recruiting new ones.
International events? Allow three months for visa formalitiesEdit
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 travelEdit
Centering Marginalised KnowledgeEdit
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" campaignsEdit
Often people come up with "Wiki Loves" initiatives and face problems regarding planning, and understanding the scope and potential of the campaign.
Achievable goalsEdit
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 perspectiveEdit
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 approachEdit
Wikipedia faces the challenge of approaching properly the gender gap issue in terms of its content.
Wikimedia events and Instructional designEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
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 CommonsEdit
You want to upload videos to Wikimedia Commons
Quiet roomEdit
Some conference participants need rest, sleep or personal time.
How to write communications materials with a balanced portrayal of women and menEdit
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 overloadEdit
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 reportEdit
Tips about preparing grant' financial reports from the perspective of user groups or individuals.
Grant reporting for volunteers. Part 1: Report of project activitiesEdit
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 platformsEdit
Promoting and spreading awareness of the work done by students as a part of the Education program
Plan an education program pilotEdit
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 ProgramEdit
For the students who can code but don't possess writing skills
Wikipedian KulTour – the little sister of GLAM on TourEdit
Documenting your event experienceEdit
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 processesEdit
I attended a training session held at Wikimania for members of grants advisors/ adjudicators
Lessons from creating a diversity toolkitEdit
Recruiting advisors, course creators & writers, collaborators for a diversity and inclusion project.
Let the community knowEdit
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You have an awesome idea for a project or activity, but it will only succeed if enough of the right people participate.
5 articles gameEdit
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 ReportingEdit
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 haveEdit
Nuances in a new program deviated from expectations during the workshop and our plan for it
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All Social media accounts of Wikimedia projects aren't handled by professionals, sometimes it is difficult to engage followers of your projects twitter and share your work through one tweet.
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 complimentsEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
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 lanyardsEdit
It is hard to know the photography preferences of the participants at conferences.
First editEdit
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 treasureEdit
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Technical innovation, in a popular area
Let the media knowEdit
You planned an awesome event or activity, but too few people showed up, or no one found out about the awesomeness afterwards.
Filling content gapsEdit
The pattern presents several ways filling content gaps on Wikipedia.
How to make a multi-day editathon?Edit
Use Wikimedia content to assist teaching WikipediaEdit
Sometimes what we are trying to teach does not get the attention it should to have a result.
Engage with public broadcastersEdit
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 trainingEdit
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 downEdit
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 invitesEdit
You are running an event and you want to invite Wikimedians.
The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendlyEdit
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 venuesEdit
Allow audience to browse multiple threads of interest in a physical conference?
Safe space policyEdit
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Some people do not feel welcome at events because of previously having a hostile encounter at a similar event.
Planning effective conference sessionsEdit
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 outreachEdit
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 PattypanEdit
How to successfully prepare and process batch upload using the tool Pattypan
How not to organize a conferenceEdit
You're organizing a conference, and you think everything is too easy. That's no fun, right?
Data transfers to Wikimedia Commons: Sharing institutional archivesEdit
"WikTungi"-city based community groupEdit
Bringing Wikipedians at a common place regularly.
GLAM on Tour - connecting Wikipedians and cultural institutions on the local levelEdit
How to get diverse presenters at your conference (from a gender, Global South... perspective)Edit
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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 organisationEdit
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 CommunityEdit
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?
AfterpartyEdit
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People like to have some time to socialize with one another after a long day of events.
Social mediaEdit
You run a social media account, but how do you maximize its effectiveness?
Project rolesEdit
Without assigned roles, sometimes important tasks don't get done.
Build trust to know what sort of challenges are coming up for the partner organisationEdit
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 onEdit
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 organisationEdit
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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How to ensure that the role of governance – mainly that of the board of trustees – is clear to everyone or who is or wants to be involved, and to optimise efficency
Board rolesEdit
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 unwatchedEdit
Every new wiki page, starts with 1 watchlister (the author). It is hard to attract collaboration at an unknown destination.
Promote photo contestsEdit
Promote photo contests and events to reach new users.
Digitising books with minimal apparatusEdit
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 staffEdit
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 trainingEdit
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 communityEdit
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“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 projectsEdit
The amount of content that a project has contributed to a Wikimedia project can be hard to measure.
Cooperative note-taking at meetings and workshopsEdit
Nobody likes note-taking for the rest.
Five tips for preparing a great conferenceEdit
Conferences can be effective tools for solving problems; but they usually have little real impact.
Learning questionEdit
Did your work increase the motivation of contributors? How do you know?
Creating portalsEdit
The pattern explains the process of creating portals on Wikipedia.
Mix newcomers and veteransEdit
Newcomers at editing events may be afraid of 'breaking' Wikipedia, or getting in trouble for editing.
Reporting CriteriaEdit
A short guide to in-kind donationsEdit
Finding sponsors for Wikimedia projects
Collecting usernames for in-person eventsEdit
When collecting usernames for in-person events for data analysis on Wikimetrics, it can be tricky to gather all of the participants' usernames.
CategoriesEdit
Best practices in training adultsEdit
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 assignmentsEdit
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 filesEdit
The pageviews data files use their own project codes with several formats.
Audience response systemEdit
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During conferences, it is good to conduct a poll to know what the participants are thinking.
Using open licensesEdit
Producing free knowledge outside the Wikimedia projects in a word of all rights reserved.
Country editor base survey of South Africa 2015Edit
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 surveysEdit
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Track Wikipedia "Knowledge Leafage" of each traineeEdit
Education programs should evaluate trainees, trainers, methods and education program itself, or they are not acceptable education, nor can evolve.
Imagery for event promotionEdit
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 languagesEdit
Social media is a widespread medium with millions of users. Dovetailing its large userbase to promote native language and promoting openly-published content like the Wikimedia content is a great way to grow reader base.
Using Wikidata on Wikipedia infoboxesEdit
How can I enable Wikidata for an infobox on my language's Wikipedia without writing all the Lua scripts from scratch?
Number of women participatingEdit
Collecting data with personal informationEdit
It is very important to collect and store personal information carefully.
Business cards and email adresses for volunteersEdit
Working with cultural institutions to upload archival photographsEdit
You want to improve coverage of historic topics
Partnering with a government agencyEdit
You identify a government agency (at any level) with high-quality content that would benefit the Wikimedia projects.
Frugal video production for Wikimedia CommonsEdit
How to effectively produce videos and upload them on Wikimedia Commons with low bandwidth
Charts on wiki pagesEdit
How do you create editable charts and graphs on Wiki pages?
Cross chapter collaboration on wiki writing contestEdit
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 expeditionsEdit
The pattern aims at providing organisers of expeditions with detailed guidelines for efficient conducting of expeditions.
Find volunteers to support a programEdit
You need volunteers to support a program online or offline.
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Community impactEdit
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 toolEdit
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-thonsEdit
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 wikisEdit
You want to organize information in the form of a portal
How to avoid duplicated items during a museum based photography eventEdit
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 translationEdit
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 inclusivenessEdit
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 patternsEdit
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 LibraryEdit
How can someone find patterns in the Learning Patterns Library that are relevant to his or her project?
Writing durable documentationEdit
How to run software on a dedicated Wikimedia Cloud VPS serverEdit
Some services requires customized operating system environments or extensive computational resources beyond what is available in the toolforge environment.
Strategic planning retreatEdit
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 effectivelyEdit
如何用360環景攝影機紀錄學術會議Edit
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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 PartnershipEdit
Coding da Vinci - the culture hackathonEdit
Wikiverse World Café - getting to know Wikimedia projects and volunteersEdit
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When should an author pay open access fees for wiki research?
¿Cómo hacer que los docentes se apropien de los proyectos de Wikimedia y los apliquen en el aula?Edit
Contest prizes that motivateEdit
Offer prizes that contest participants want to win.
Organize childcare during a Wikimedia eventEdit
More and more members of the community are parents
Qué canales podemos usar para hacer comunicación externaEdit
La importancia de los talleres previos a las editatonesEdit
Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event participants in the best way to get a Schengen VisaEdit
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 FridayEdit
You want to get into the habit of writing documentation on a regular basis
Learn in detail about existing tools before building new onesEdit
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 sessionsEdit
International travelEdit
How can someone arrange safe and cost-effective international travel?
How to design and develop an education hackathon within the Wikipedia Education ProgramEdit
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 schoolsEdit
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 ProgramEdit
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 conferenceEdit
How can Wikimedia contributors do outreach at a non-wiki academic conference?
Producing video oral histories about Wikimedia participantsEdit
Wikimedia project participants need a way to document what they do and why they do it.
Recruiting high school participantsEdit
Reaching out to high schools and generating interest.
Request brochures or other materials from WMFEdit
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 programEdit
How do you know if your education program is successful?
Short reports go a long wayEdit
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 conferenceEdit
Strategies to achieve editing contest goalsEdit
You set great contest goals, now all you need is strategies to achieve them!
Survey legal practices around the worldEdit
Legal practices for surveys differ around the world
The pre-jury as a tool for community engagementEdit
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 classroomEdit
What do educators need to learn before using Wikimedia in course.
Treasures or landmines: detecting uncategorized, language-specific uploads in CommonsEdit
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 programEdit
Some programs were not tailored to the local volunteers' needs and wants and became ineffective.
Use advanced site notice to promote eventsEdit
A low-cost solution to effectively promote an event to all readers on your Wikipedia
Using CentralNotice banners for surveysEdit
Reaching users for a survey using CentralNotice can be daunting
Using Wikipedia's gaps as feminist teaching toolsEdit
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 extensionEdit
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 crowdEdit
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 volunteersEdit
Volunteers and staff don't always work together effectively
Wiki MOOCEdit
Which scalable solution can we use to teach new contributors how to contribute to Wikimedia project?
Focus on contentEdit
Gender identityEdit
Get the community involved earlyEdit
What can you do to plan for success when teaching students to contribute to Wikimedia?
Help new editors learn WikimarkupEdit
New editors or students are making many mistakes with Wiki markup.
Help students and educators understand community rules and normsEdit
Student and educator user pages, articles, edits or content are being deleted.
Hiring a metrics processor for a Wikimedia outreach projectEdit
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 buttonEdit
Identifying content gapsEdit
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Finding or creating the right illustration for our Wikimedian press releases or publications in blogs or social networks, is sometimes intuitive and natural, while in other cases can be really challenging.
Improve photo quality with better camerasEdit
Your community has good photographers, but they need better equipment.
Increase number of photos in useEdit
Strategies to achieve goals to integrate photos from projects and contests into Wiki projects.
Keeping nonprofit organization insuranceEdit
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 GLAMEdit
Providing the best resources for your institution to learn about Wikipedia
Monitor student contributionsEdit
You want to check student contributions for errors or monitor their progress on an education program assignment.
Motivating students to contribute to Wikimedia projectsEdit
How do you get students interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects as part of a course?
Number of articles created or improved in Wikimedia projectsEdit
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 involvedEdit
It is easier to demonstrate impact if you can show who participated, or benefited, from your work.
Number of newly registered usersEdit
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 educationEdit
You do not know if you need to work with the Ministry of Education in your region.
Photographing your local buildingsEdit
Plan a Wiki expeditionEdit
How to plan an enjoyable and effective Wiki expedition.
Plan aerial photography projectsEdit
How to plan an aerial photography project.
Annual Wikimedia CEE meeting: drafting the programmeEdit
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 travelEdit
How can safe and cost-effective automobile travel to events be arranged?
Choosing an education program modelEdit
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 effectiveEdit
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Conducting a semi-structured interviewEdit
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 sweepstakesEdit
Sweepstakes, contests, and giveaways have strict legal requirements
Counting featured, quality and valued content in CommonsEdit
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 programsEdit
The community is having frequent problems with students or new editors.
Don't fiddle with the AVEdit
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Sometimes, the audio-visual apparatus fails to work and the participants spend a lot of time to make it working.
Edit-a-thon worklistsEdit
You host an edit-a-thon and no one knows what to work on.
Edit 1 and Challenge 1Edit
Participation hasn't increased in the past seven years.
Facilitating social interaction at conferencesEdit
Conferences often bring together people who have not met each other before and so it may be difficult for them to start interacting and contribute to the programmatic goals of the conference.
Failing at a crowdfunding campaign and what we can learn from itEdit
The crowdfunding campaign for the German Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci did not reach its financial goal.
Evaluate student workEdit
How to evaluate student contributions to Wikimedia for a grade or mark.
Adapt Wiki Loves contests to prevent burnoutEdit
How to change Wiki Loves contests to maintain volunteer and participant interest.
Project management for edit-a-thonsEdit
How do you keep all your ducks in a row to organize an edit-a-thon?
Writing legal disclaimersEdit
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 worklistsEdit
I do not know if I should make a work list for an editing contest.
Writing Contest Topic SelectionEdit
I want to pick a writing contest topic that will be popular with new or existing editors.
Working with an existing movement....Edit
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Building enthusiasm, initiative and promoting a project
Working constructively with the Wikimedia communityEdit
Community members are reverting student edits or deleting user pages.
Wikipedia & Medicine: Practical Details for EducatorsEdit
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 takenEdit
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 museumEdit
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 2016Edit
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 dataEdit
WikiDayEdit
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 PolicyEdit
What do you do with data from Wikimedia projects or research?
What to expect when doing a surveyEdit
Using structured assessment tools for development planningEdit
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-upEdit
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 outcomesEdit
How can we evaluate outcomes of particular programs as compared to their costs?
Using social media channels for editors retentionEdit
Follow up with the individuals, strengthening of existing Wikipedians, and reaching to Wikipedians at a very short time is very difficult.
Using ordered response scalesEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
Using mass message for surveysEdit
Banners are not the only way to reach users quickly on-wiki
Using Wikidata to make Machine Translation dictionary entriesEdit
Expanding MT coverage with Wikipedia-relevant translations
Using QuickSurveysEdit
Userpage organizerEdit
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 studentsEdit
Education uses work sheets for teaching in schools
Use of a single diagram to imprint Wikipedia basics onto newcomersEdit
Introductory presentations to Wikipedia can be confusing as many new things have to be said
Use telephone calls or Skype to clarify questions earlyEdit
Some people in important positions would not read their email, miss important information, and create inconsistency and confusion.
Use social media for promotionEdit
I want to promote an event to new audiences.
Use an article nursery garden for each new editorEdit
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 toolboxEdit
Slow access through help for immediately needed stuff
Use course pages to organize student assignmentsEdit
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-homesEdit
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 involvementEdit
TranslationEdit
It is difficult to carry out evaluation and sharing because of language barriers
Tools for managing a survey projectEdit
Managing a survey project can be difficult
Track project hours in Google CalendarEdit
How can we use Google Calendar to track of how many hours we have spent on a project?
Tracking contest submissionsEdit
I want to know the best way to track contest submissions.
Tips for surveys in google formsEdit
Tools for communicating what Wikipedia is aboutEdit
Most of the world doesn't know Wikipedia and what is about.
Tools are short-lived, so archive your pagesEdit
Unlike Wikis, tools are maintained by fewer people – the platform change very quickly and tools will no longer function.
Thanking usersEdit
Users can spend a lot of time on surveys and get survey fatigue
Testing survey questionsEdit
Third place for local groupsEdit
Local groups need a clearly identifiable meeting place to organize actions.
The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projectsEdit
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 analysisEdit
It can be confusing how to do qualitative analysis for surveys
Sustaining dialogue with your communityEdit
To ensure there is a continuous conversation with the community about changes in processes by maintaining communication.
Surfacing activityEdit
MediaWiki pages are static, but interactive group workspaces work need to be dynamic.
Surveys at different pointsEdit
At different points in a process you need to get different kinds of information from participants.
Support a community of photographersEdit
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 communityEdit
Storytelling over demonstration in a Wikipedia outreachEdit
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 blastsEdit
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 communitiesEdit
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.
StatboardEdit
Participants are not motivated to contribute throughout the duration of a month-long edit-a-thon
Sharing relevant information with the Wikimedia movementEdit
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 travelEdit
How can safe and short-distance travel to events be arranged?
Show statistics to GLAM partnersEdit
Your GLAM partner wants to know how the media they have shared are being used.
Service Credit for University StudentsEdit
We need to engage more undergraduate and graduate level students to edit Wikipedia.
Selecting winners of a large photo contestEdit
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-thonsEdit
You are organizing a hack-a-thon and you want participants to share their work
Set test tasks for recruiting programmersEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
Non availability of reliable resources in Telugu language, especially online, related to Telugu Language, Culture, Social and Political Aspects
Reimagining traditional classroom assignmentsEdit
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 WikipediaEdit
We all know PR editing happens on Wikipedia. How can we reduce the amount, and impact, of it?
Recipe for a strategic planEdit
Some groups, organizations, or projects want to develop longer term plans to guide them toward their long term goals
Regional action planEdit
The members, gathered in local groups, may have difficulty maintaining a group dynamic when not related to a specific action.
Recombine tiled imagesEdit
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 judgesEdit
Find the right people and tools to judge a writing or photo contest.
Public contributionEdit
How can we persuade the general public to contribute?
Quality content generationEdit
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 surveysEdit
Publication policyEdit
Rail travelEdit
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Quick start to batch uploading in institutional partnershipsEdit
Introduction for beginner-level developers new to the Wikimedia sphere