Grants:Project/Rapid/Music Library Association/Wikipedia-edit-a-thon 2019/Report

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This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Goals[edit]

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

We are very happy to report that we met our goals for this project. We had 28 Wikipedians, both new and experienced, local and from out-of-town, edit 47 articles and create six brand new articles about notable St. Louis musicans.

Outcome[edit]

Please report on your original project targets.


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
1 event 1 event We planned to have one event, and we did.
40 participants 28 participants We learned after we submitted the grant that the room available to us for the event had a maximum capacity of 30 people, so we had to limit participation in the live event.
20 new editors circa 14 We do not have exact stats for this, but based on observations during the event, at least half the attendees had not used Wikipedia before
40 articles created or improved 47 edited, 6 created We had a very motivated group of new and experienced Wikipedians focused on adding as much quality content as possible.

List of articles created or edited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_LeFlore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Gibson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw,_St._Louis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_system_atrophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Artists_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Cruz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serkal_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_intersex_surgery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Hurts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Burrage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatle_Bob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bumbry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Pillars

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61861826

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Bibb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Randle

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassan_Al-Khudhairi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_History_of_American_Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Library_Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Judd_O'Meara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Middleton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiet_Bluiett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Postlewaite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_St._Louis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Jackson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R._Kroeger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_Palmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubie_Blake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Llewellyn_Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Weathers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Bullock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Johnson_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Susskind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Theofanidis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stern_(conductor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Bulgaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Owens_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_J._Hill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Miller_(drummer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Crispell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Gagliano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Scruggs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Gagliano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Taylor

Learning[edit]

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

What worked well?

  • Having training at the beginning of the event while folks ate their lunch worked really well. They were ready to dive into editing once they had finished eating and learning.
  • Having people think about topics they wanted to edit before the event and bring research materials with them meant most people spent the majority of the event adding content.
  • Partnering with the local public library was highly beneficial because we had access to their collections and space.
  • Offering a remote participation option via Zoom for a few attendees who could not be at the event in person
  • Having a number of free loaner laptops on hand for users without a machine.

What did not work so well?

  • Reaching out to the local Missouri Wikipedian community was very difficult. Luckily, they found us! At the event we learned the local editing community is very small, but they were excited to participate in the event.

What would you do differently next time?

Finances[edit]

Grant funds spent[edit]

Wikipedia branded merchandise for free giveaways - $296.89; Amazon giftcards for prizes - $200; Lunch catering - $479.07

Total spent: $975.96

Remaining funds[edit]

Remaining funds from this grant have been returned to WMF in the amount of US$199.04.

A total of $199.04 was unspent from the grant funds. We had budgeted this amount originally to provide childcare resources for attendees. However, no attendees ultimately required childcare, so this service was not used. Remaining funds have been transferred back to Wikimedia.

Anything else[edit]

Anything else you want to share about your project?

This event went well. It really couldn't have gone better. Now that we know how much interest there is in editing Wikipedia, we plan to hold annual editing events during the Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association. We don't know exactly what these events will look like, but we want to keep the momentum and interest going to keep improving Wikipedia.

In addition to the 47 articles edited and 6 created mentioned above, the event resulted in 260 total edits and 10.3K words added. Two new Wikidata entries were also created.

A meetup page for the event was created and is available here.

The hashtag #mlawiki2019 was used for the event. Images and updates from the event were posted to Twitter using this hashtag.

The event organisers would like to thank our instructors for the day, Anna Kjias and Angela Pratesi and to St.Louis Public Library for hosting us.

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