Grants:TPS/Rosiestep/Wikimania/2016/Report

Accepting the co-Wikipedian of the Year award

Welcome back from Wikimania 2016!

Participant

• Rosiestep
• en.wiki

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

Add a link here to a blog post or newsletter you wrote about your participation afterwards, or to a meet-up you organized to share your experience with your local community.

Option 2: Learning Pattern: What is one useful learning pattern you can share with the Wikimedia movement?

Add a link to a learning pattern - either a new pattern you created with insights from your participation, or an existing pattern to which you added your endorsement and some significant new "considerations" or “examples” from your experience.

Learning Days, Wikimania 2016; May on my right, Vassia on my left.

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome that was created at the event for the Wikimedia movement?

• Grants:PEG/FloNight & Rosiestep/WikiConference North America 2016: Decided during Wikimania, en:user:FloNight, en:user:DrMel and I applied for a grant -- for WikiConference North America. (DrMel subsequently dropped off the grant.) This is my first grant application. There is a wonderful planning committee assembled and we are diligently to towards developing a great conference.
• en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/18: I met May Hashem at Learning Days, she invited me and my team, Women in Red, (WiR) to participate in the Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project in August, and I said yes: 12 July - 12 August, and on 12 August, I'll be at the United Nations Headquarters to facilitate the in-person editathon.
• en:User:Rosiestep/100wikidays: after chatting with Vassia during Learning Days, I decided to make the #100wikidays commitment. Today is day #40.

Connections

• Lightening Talk at Learning Days (about 50 people)
• Presentation on Content Gender Gap (about 100 people)
• Facilitated Discussion Room on Gender Gap, the Way Forward (about 50 people)
• Facilitated Discussion Room on Global South, the Way Forward (about 50 people)
• Met Ewan (Scotland), Wikipedian in Residence in Scotland. WiR had previously collaborated with him on Spy Week, and we agreed to coordinate future events together.
• Met Adam Cuerden (Scotland), who had improved some images for WiR previously, and he has subsequently improved lots of them for us!
• Met Rich Farmbrough (England), who had done some metrics for WiR previously, and we discussed how to move it forward.
• Met Camelia Boban (Italy), and we discussed how to create a Women in Red in Italy. And we have had subsequent emails.
• Met several Affiliate leaders during Affiliate office hours, and had conversations with them about issues affecting their Chapters.

Anything else

Learning Days Lightening Talk: "How to design & run a successful virtual editathon on a budget of $0"

Presentation: "Content gender gap, an international movement"