Definitely! It's a shame we missed it this year but thanks for flagging it
up Mike, would be good to be involved in future. Cheers, Lucy
On 12 October 2015 at 18:39, Michael Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just discovered that this week is 'Get Online Week', see:
> http://getonlineweek.com/
> htt
Dear Mike,
I think the target group is significant here. My suspicion is that editing
Wikipedia is not an entry level computer task. I have twice trained non
computer users at editathons I was helping at, on one occasion I spent an
inordinate amount of time teaching someone how to use a mouse. My
Hi all,
I am following this thread with interest. A lot of libraries are doing
interesting things around Get Online week, and I think it’s worth thinking less
in terms of people editing Wikipedia and more in terms of using it.
Obviously, edits is a metric, but I note in Martha Lane Fox’s dot.ev
Getting people to understand how to interact with Wikipedia *properly* as a
reader has always struck me as the most important thing. Because people
sometimes don't apply the sort of critical thinking needed. An
encyclopaedia is nothing if it's content is not *useful*.
For this reason (and I feel i
Hi all,
I think there is what we do and what we imagine we do. Although the propaganda
is that editathons are there to develop new editors, in fact they are very poor
at this with somewhere around a 5% success level. This is something Wikimedia UK
has known for several years, yet we have continued
I consider a 5% editor retention rate from editathons as a consistent huge
success.
Deryck
On 13 October 2015 at 15:12, leu...@fabiant.eu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think there is what we do and what we imagine we do. Although the
> propaganda is that editathons are there to develop new editors, in
On 13 October 2015 at 15:12, leu...@fabiant.eu wrote:
...
> I think there is what we do and what we imagine we do. Although the
> propaganda is that editathons are there to develop new editors, in fact they
> are very poor at this with somewhere around a 5% success level. This is
> something Wi
Hi all,
It's worth remembering that editathons weren't originally intended to recruit
new editors - they were aimed at bringing together experienced editors with
knowledgable people (e.g. museum creators) to improve Wikipedia articles using
the knowledge of both groups. The change to focus on n
On 13/10/15 13:48, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
> I think the target group is significant here. My suspicion is that
> editing Wikipedia is not an entry level computer task.
Indeed. I have sat in on sessions in community centres, teaching and
helping to teach. Image manipulation (using The Gimp) an
This sounds like a great idea, let's do it. I am not sure that a WIkiproject
work for this. Is there a better
way to approach things?
all the best
Fabian
aka Leutha
> Rather than running our own events for new internet users, how about providing
> leaflets to 'Get Online' events that walk peo
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