Rather than making edit-a-thons more restrictive, our project in DC is doing the opposite - having a Wikipedia on-ramp available five days a week, in one of the most high profile places in the US, at the National Archives (NARA).
Wikipedia Space is a project launching by July 2015 at the NARA Innovation Hub where any GLAM professional or member of the general public can learn about Wikipedia and free culture in a standing facility and immediately contribute content. Details here: http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201450237/ Feel free to contact me for anyone interested in pitching in. -Andrew On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > I really like editathons because of the ease with which they can be > designed to address systemic bias, but I'm not sure having them supported > by the Foundation is optimal from the perspective of time and money both. > > Therefore, I propose that someone try some editathons where half the > tickets are auctioned, the other half are raffled, and the Foundation pays > to support them if and only if the auction fails to pay all of the expenses > in advance, and then only the difference. This will allow them to become > more exclusive, but not completely exclusive, and it will incentivize the > organizing wikipedians by allowing them to pay themselves some contingent > portion of the proceeds to be negotiated with the Foundation, and which > could, for example, include an open-ended proportion of auction proceeds. > > Please share your thoughts on this proposal. I am also making diagrams for > nine of the twelve steps listed on > http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review > and its talk page, where I will soon be proposing a different alternate > funding model to avoid relying on Google Summer of Code. I would also be > most interested in comments on that. Thank you! > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
