Learning patterns/Make a stand

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Make a stand

problemMake a good experience at a fair stand

solutionStep up your set up to have a better experience

creator• Noé

created on16:52, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

status:DRAFT

Let's look at several questions, ideas and best practices to enfance your stands, be pertinent for your audience and nice to animate. This learning pattern could lead to clear perspectives and a desire for some new material and New interaction scenarios.

Definition

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A fair stand or an exhibition stand is a medium to communicate and relate between human beings.

People

• people that create the set for the stand: communication

• people using the stand: wikimedians (volunteers and salaries)

• people visiting the stand: audience

• people on other stands and staff of the event: embassy

Possible goals

• Diffuse projets existence, values or an specific on-going initiative

• Make people realize there is human beings beyond those websites

• Answering to any query related to wikiprojects (usually: why my page was deleted?)

• Initiate local partnership or obtain some funding

• Share knowledge

• Have a good time

Intentions of each accessories

• Informationnal
• Promotionnal
• Attractive

Main accessories

• paper
  • flyers

• screen
  • free to use or not
  • fix content (a fancy Wikipedia article, page of the event, picture with logos to ask "Which one do you know?") or animated (videos from a MOOC, Listen Wikipedia, qualité pictures like Wiki Loves Earth ones)

• table
  • nice blanket
  • pluch
  • flower, candle, etc.

• Table settings
  • Banners
  • Posters
  • Information panels (with data porn)
  • Chairs for the audience
  • Candy for volunteers

Objectives for the supports

• Modular
• Easy to learn
• Light to carry
• Covers different purposes

Unfolded

• Identifying a location, booking, and canvassing for people to staff the stand
• Preparing materials: selecting existing materials, creating long-term materials, and creating materials tailored to the event (schedule of upcoming meetings)
• Collecting and delivering materials
• Setting up: decorating the stand, welcoming volunteers, and training volunteers
• Welcoming the public
• Promoting other stands, meals, breaks, and relaying volunteers
• Wrapping up the day: thanking everyone who came, gathering materials, noting any gaps and good ideas for the next stand

Points of vigilance

• Boredom when it is only a question of providing materials made by others → plan activities: demonstration of a project/initiative, ambassadorship to other stands, research to propose new anecdotes

• Detachment: leaving a computer with a Wikimedian allows them to isolate themselves → bring back reading material related to the projects: local group guide, book published on the projects, wikipress, new booklets

• Exhaustion: repeating the same information over and over again is useless → information that is repeated too often should be on a poster, games can also amuse the people who do it, plan food or go get drinks to take care of each other

• Fear of amateurism: the people who run a stand are not communicators, do not know all the projects → it’s good to be amateurs, we play as a team, we look for information that we don’t have, we are nice

Specific feedback, best practices and points of attention

• Be careful with posters, which can become obsolete quickly.

• Posters can be adapted to the occasion of the stand.

• It can happen that you find yourself caught up in a vehemently curious person, and if you are alone, contact with other people is lost, it is sometimes better to pass the word to another person to take turns or move the person away from the stand.

See also

• Presentation given on this topic at the 2022 Francophone WikiConvention

External links

• 5 tips by AAkonsult