Learning patterns
A collection of solutions and effective practices in the Wikimedia world.
Learning patterns are a simple way to document an important lesson. They explain how to reproduce a successful strategy for executing or evaluating an activity, such as running an edit-a-thon, or how to run a survey.
In a bit more detail, a learning pattern is (1) a guideline that provides advice on how to do something and (2) a template with clear title and consistent format so people can quickly find the information they need when they browse through the library of learning patterns. If you've been involved in a Wikimedia activity, you've probably learned some valuable tips, tricks, advice, or considerations about what works and what doesn't for that kind of activity. You can read more about learning patterns and this project here on the Wikimedia blog.
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I need to make an event page, for a contest or something else.
You're going to give a workshop on how to edit Wikimedia projects or going to get students in a school or university to edit for the first time. Take care: no more than six people will be able to create their own accounts from the same IP.
Student contributions are being reverted or deleted, or student accounts have been blocked.
You want to make the people attending your event relaxed, excited, and ready to work together.
Some people write a lot in their forms but they sometime miss their personal contribution
A conference call is coming? You know it’s gonna get boring? Here are a few ideas to spice things up, avoid oversharing, and make sure no one gets heard.
The pattern aims at providing future Wikimania participants with tips on how to prepare for the conference.
Spaces on Wikipedia can sometimes be intimidating to newcomers who are afraid to jump in.
Editing Wikipedia is not easy for new comers, and they are embarrassed when they realized actual Wikipedia-editing is different from what they thought.
This pattern is an outcome of organising Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 and observing other conferences registration process.
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Everything has gone horribly wrong! Panic! Don't tell anyone, and maybe the problem will go away!
Volunteers are very enthusiastic to organize and host activities, but may not be very interested in providing an activity report and metrics after the event is done. Activity reports for each activity are necessary in order to produce reports required as part of the WMF's grant process.
Edit-a-thons can become training events, without accomplishing much.
To run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
Media contributions are most valuable when they are integrated into Wikimedia projects.
You need to measure your project's output according to the global metrics specified by the Wikimedia Foundation.
It is difficult to track new user registrations that come from a specific event or online campaign.
Difficulties in tracking user contributions by chapter.
If people misunderstand your survey questions, they may not answer them the way you intended.
Post-event surveys are a great way to gather feedback and contact information from participants; but people get distracted and often don't fill them out.
Even promising ideas with detailed project plans and broad appeal can fail to achieve their goals if what they produce is not useful and relevant to the right people.
Psiquiatric patients tend to abandon the editing course and you may feel frustrated.
You want to coordinate an editing workshop or course with patients at an institution.The project may be delayed due to possible interferences.
This is intended for small projects that need to grow and need to attract new users.
You need to select mental patients for your course.
Groups of volunteers doing Wikimedia activities may become overwhelmed and demotivated by the amount of administration work that is required to be done to sustain their activities.
Clear agreement between the partners about the intended impact of the project creates a helpful focus to direct programme’s efforts. Having broad and flexible objectives is a strength of a programme, but not at the cost of unclear expectations from both partners.
Since 2013, the small team of WikiFranca dedicated to the coordination of the International Francophone Contribution Month, is made up of only one person! How to manage not to drown in all the discussions, requests and global coordination when you are alone?
How to fully centralize and internationalize a gadget
You have a large corpus of data that you want to migrate to Wikidata, and you want to do it right.
Good proposals and reports are more than sheer facts and numbers, they tell stories which make people understand what's great about your work.
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Paper books are endangered, these days!
Projects that require a lot of preliminary work before they can start, or depend on many external factors, easily get bogged down and may fail to achieve their goals.
Wikimedians in residence working in isolation, with no standardised support
Students or workshop participants are making copyright violations.
You don't have all the skills or knowledge needed to accomplish your project alone.
You need developers to work on a Wikimedia grant proposal
There is a giant gap between countries of the global south and those of the north when it comes to producing south-related free content.
Geeks are the people who are obsessed with specific interest and are potentially very good wikipedians. What makes them excited in volunteering for wikipedia.
Volunteer Wikimedians sometimes don't manage to get their message across or the leave the best possible impression at meetings with decision-makers.
Wikimedia has communities of supporters who are not necessarily of the work carried out by organisations they support.
Finding new volunteers who understand the fun in Wikipedia Editing and can involve in movement is not an easy task.
In most of the theme-specific training activities, participants don't get enough time to understand and practice the concepts or tools discussed. This will have a negative effect on the overall outcome of the event or a project.
In several workshops you may find mixed audience, which is actually a hindrance towards conducting an advanced-level workshop smoothly.
Digital library of india is a big online books repository for indic languages. But it's not well categorized and the metadata is not easily found in search engine queries or even in that website's queries also.
Several topics concerning your country do not yet exist in Wikipedia? You could create them yourself, but it's a colossal job and you could have it for years ... maybe even centuries!
How to get notices out to as many potential editors as possible
It is difficult to start a conversation with strangers during large conferences.
Cultural institutions are one of the most important partners for the Wikimedia movement. Sometime, the role of the cultural institutions is passive; we approach their heritage and they invite us to perform activities, but, how can we make organizations become active?
When Wikimedia chapters decide to hire staff, the question arises who is responsible for what. Unclarity can lead to problems, frustration and conflicts.
How do we get all democratic political data into Wikidata?
Dealing with multiple versions of software or components of it can easily become messy
Issues of race, gender, and sexuality representation among Wikipedia editors
You have just discovered that an edit you or a trainee have proudly made is being unfairly attacked by other user(s). Soon enough you get embroiled in the discussion and can't resist retorting the accusations.
Some outreach events are not used for (first-time) Wikipedia editing on-site because a short amount of time and other circumstances seem to be disadvantageous for this kind of immediate Wikipedia experience.
Using Twitter for your chapter or affiliate's social media outreach?
An editor is reluctant to contribute because they are unsure whether their idea is helpful or not.
Senior citizens represent a large and ofter very educated part of our society, yet are underrepresented among Wikipedia editors and attempts to reach to them bring special challenges.
Creating a new biographical article is very intimidating for new editors.
With workshops one of the key points to retention is being able to assist participants. Another is being able to identify the impact of an event, this provides a method to accurately capture usernames.
Words can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.
Posters are meant to be glanced at, pointed at, and talked about—not read like a book.
Infographics can be a great way to make sense of complex data and share it with the public. Creating an infographic with a designer is a task, which has to have a plan and tips to create solid infographics to be kept in mind.
You want to improve the software that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Coordinating developers who are not Wikimedians
The Wikimedia movement has a large variety of assonant terms which mean different things but they are confusing and mysterious for the majority of humankind.
Taking care of children while attending a conference is difficult.
During conferences, it may not be possible to provide stage-time to all participants who want to talk.
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Digital policy is insufficiently represented in the German election campaigns and discussions.
Many projects, programs or whole grants start accumulating dozens of receipts to be paid out to various people. At some point this gets confusing and your accountant will go crazy.
You are digitizing records from an archives to upload to Wikimedia Commons
Many editing events are way too big and are less effective because of this.
Newbies attending edit-a-thons are not motivated by a single event. They do not sustain their interest levels if they are not motivated further.
Engaging and retaining productive Wikimedia contributors is as important as recruiting new ones.
If your Wikimedia event is open to international visitors you never know which country they will be from. Don't assume that everyone is travelling on a EU passport.
The knowledge of marginalised communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects?
Often people come up with "Wiki Loves" initiatives and face problems regarding planning, and understanding the scope and potential of the campaign.
Even impactful projects may look unimpressive if the project team sets unrealistic goals, or doesn't develop some way to measure their progress ahead of time.
Wikipedia faces the challenge of including more women editors . This situation involves creating spaces in our programs for women to be part of them. The evaluation through gender perspective is essential .
Wikipedia faces the challenge of approaching properly the gender gap issue in terms of its content.
How to make Wikimedia events instructionally guided
Many emerging communities or communities are confronted with the problems of engagement, motivation or how to retain their members; here are some orientations, result of experience
Publishers on YouTube have the option of publishing their material under a CreativeCommons-Attribution 2.0 license.
With limited resources, the wisdom shared during conferences remain limited among the participants only as it is practically hard to live broadcast or record everything. Similarly, smaller Wikimedia communities cannot have a wider engagement with potential readers and contributors.
Video is still relatively rare in articles on Wikipedia. It could potentially enrich the encyclopedia and make it more attractive to younger audiences.
You want to upload videos to Wikimedia Commons
Some conference participants need rest, sleep or personal time.
When developing communications materials it is important to give a balanced portrayal of men and women, not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of quality.
Al desarrollar materiales de comunicación, es importante ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres, no solo en términos de cantidad sino también en términos de calidad.
During outreach events, there is a tendency that the mentor gives too much information to the newbies. This makes newbies overwhelmed.
Tips about preparing grant' financial reports from the perspective of user groups or individuals.
Tips about preparing the report of project activities from the perspective of user groups or individuals
You want to start a new education program and you don't know if you need to start with a pilot or with an entire program.
For the students who can code but don't possess writing skills
Attending an event can be overwhelming, and it is easy to forget what you did, who you talked to and what sessions you attended.
I attended a training session held at Wikimania for members of grants advisors/ adjudicators
Recruiting advisors, course creators & writers, collaborators for a diversity and inclusion project.
You have an awesome idea for a project or activity, but it will only succeed if enough of the right people participate.
Understanding Wikipedia, Wikimedia and their communities is challenging. We can start building understanding by having anyone writing 5 articles for Wikipedia.
The Program & Events Dashboard is a valuable reporting tool, but implementation is sometimes inconsistent when working with a large number of organizers or events.
Nuances in a new program deviated from expectations during the workshop and our plan for it
You've attracted newbies to your program or event but you don't know how to motivate them to stay as editors.
Many people are not admired and encouraged adequately for their successes at workshops and conferences.
How can you learn from other’s who have experience in doing a project you are about to start (and know almost nothing about)?
Managing the resources from large content donors are often difficult.
It is hard to know the photography preferences of the participants at conferences.
A brand new user has no idea on where to start editing, and might start with something that is very hard.
Technical innovation, in a popular area
You planned an awesome event or activity, but too few people showed up, or no one found out about the awesomeness afterwards.
The pattern presents several ways filling content gaps on Wikipedia.
Sometimes what we are trying to teach does not get the attention it should to have a result.
Public Broadcasters and the Wikimedia movement to a large degree exist with the same purpose in mind: educating and informing. How can they collaborate?
Most training and recruitment sessions, or Wikimedia clinics, have an acute way of training new recruits or even people who have a fair knowledge of WIkipedia and its sister projects.
This Learning Pattern provides pointers on what to do when your plane is delayed or cancelled on your way to a Wikip/media event.
You are running an event and you want to invite Wikimedians.
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual conference for Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation and its committees. In the past, there have been complaints by newcomers, that integrating into this conference has become difficult.
Allow audience to browse multiple threads of interest in a physical conference?
Some people do not feel welcome at events because of previously having a hostile encounter at a similar event.
Conference sessions are often planned at the last minute with little consideration for goals, expected outcomes, audience preparation, or follow-up.
Wikipedia is a key resource for anyone curious about astronomy. Therefore, ensuring there is quality and accurate astronomy information on Wikipedia in many languages is critical.
How to successfully prepare and process batch upload using the tool Pattypan
You're organizing a conference, and you think everything is too easy. That's no fun, right?
Bringing Wikipedians at a common place regularly.
Gender and global diversity benefit our conferences! But it's not easy to get a diverse line-up of speakers. Interesting people might be too shy to apply, or too unexperienced in writing a good proposal.
Offering best practices on how to go about hiring an ED for your organisation and what you should look out for.
New users of Wikipedia often need to search for introductions in a very time-consuming way and are unable to find a solution on help pages quickly. To support them with guided tours, we aim to describe in this learning pattern how guided tours for new users can be created in cooperation with the community and with minimum effort by engaging the help of an external service provider.
How can you tell if students or workshop participants understand and are using skills you have taught them?
People like to have some time to socialize with one another after a long day of events.
You run a social media account, but how do you maximize its effectiveness?
Without assigned roles, sometimes important tasks don't get done.
It can be hard to anticipate challenges experienced by a partner organisation. Those unplanned barriers can throw up barriers to the success of the project.
Having a breakthrough, tangible case study early enough in a partnership project is a powerful facilitator to generating additional support for the project to carry it forward. A successful case study project helps to illustrate the aims of a project.
The projects within Wikimedian in Residence programme - such as a mass image upload - presupposes a range of conditions, for example internal copyright knowledge, clean databases, digital skills.
To function well, a board needs to understand what they are responsible for doing for the organization, and individual members and key office holders should also understand their roles. If these are not documented in a central location, roles may not be clear, or members may disagree about who is responsible for what. If board members do not agree on responsibilities, important tasks may be neglected and conflicts may arise.
Every new wiki page, starts with 1 watchlister (the author). It is hard to attract collaboration at an unknown destination.
Promote photo contests and events to reach new users.
Digitising books and archives often requires expensive scanning apparatus not available everywhere. This pattern provides alternate methods.
How can you use Wikipedia in libraries to facilitate digital information literacies?
Public libraries and Wikipedia both are devoted to freely expanding access to information for all. However, the majority of US public library staff do not edit Wikipedia and 80% of US public libraries are small and rural, which means there are few opportunities to meet Wikipedians locally. How can an online training program effectively meet the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia?
“It’s always the same few people doing things”: the core community of Wikimedians engaged in group activities or organizing events stays rather constant.
The amount of content that a project has contributed to a Wikimedia project can be hard to measure.
Nobody likes note-taking for the rest.
Conferences can be effective tools for solving problems; but they usually have little real impact.
Did your work increase the motivation of contributors? How do you know?
The pattern explains the process of creating portals on Wikipedia.
Newcomers at editing events may be afraid of 'breaking' Wikipedia, or getting in trouble for editing.
Finding sponsors for Wikimedia projects
When collecting usernames for in-person events for data analysis on Wikimetrics, it can be tricky to gather all of the participants' usernames.
We need to train people to contribute to Wikimedia and in general, the trainees will be adults. The only experience many volunteer trainers have is from when they were being taught as children. The result is that the remembered practices (good or bad) of their teachers will often be what they draw upon when they are training other adults. Those approaches may not be appropriate or effective..
For teachers, a Wikipedia writing assignment is much more work than other writing assignments. They have to double check the content of the article, grammar, spelling and the validity of the sources.
The pageviews data files use their own project codes with several formats.
During conferences, it is good to conduct a poll to know what the participants are thinking.
Producing free knowledge outside the Wikimedia projects in a word of all rights reserved.
It is often impossible or very difficult to know the community that a country wide chapter is founded to support.
Education programs should evaluate trainees, trainers, methods and education program itself, or they are not acceptable education, nor can evolve.
Accurately conveying both the objective (subject-matter, technical) and subjective (social, emotional) gist of an event to a potential attendee is challenging, especially in written. This makes it especially hard to engage underrepresented audiences.
How can I enable Wikidata for an infobox on my language's Wikipedia without writing all the Lua scripts from scratch?
It is very important to collect and store personal information carefully.
You want to improve coverage of historic topics
You identify a government agency (at any level) with high-quality content that would benefit the Wikimedia projects.
How to effectively produce videos and upload them on Wikimedia Commons with low bandwidth
How do you create editable charts and graphs on Wiki pages?
How can two chapters organize parallel on wiki writing contest about each other’s countries in order to build a closer relationship between two chapters?
The pattern aims at providing organisers of expeditions with detailed guidelines for efficient conducting of expeditions.
You need volunteers to support a program online or offline.
You worked hard on a project you believe in, but no one seemed interested in what you made or wants to carry your work forward.
You want to run a survey for your project. Free online survey tools usually only provide limited functionality, and better tools usually cost money.
While organizing an online Editathon, often it is difficult to track the numbers of articles created, articles created by number of participants, the total number of bytes added and many other problems.
You want to organize information in the form of a portal
Sometimes it may happen that during a museum photothon some exhibited items were photographed multiple times, while others remained uncovered. Here is a simple idea how to avoid this situation.
When a resource you created has multiple wiki pages, and you use a navigation bar, contributing translations can become hard.
Low women participation in Wikipedia projects is known all over the world. There is less participation of women as well as less content related to women. Many languages are spoken in and around Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. Enriching these language Wikipedias and bringing more women into Wikipedia activities have to be achieved .
We need to make it easier for people to capture and share what they learn when they perform mission-aligned activities.
How can someone find patterns in the Learning Patterns Library that are relevant to his or her project?
Some services requires customized operating system environments or extensive computational resources beyond what is available in the toolforge environment.
The Wikimedia New York City chapter was supporting an increasingly diverse array of ambitious and challenging projects and events, and it became apparent that in order to support these activities properly, we needed a more cohesive strategy to manage them and report on their progress to chapter funders.
環景相機的架設位置和傳統攝影機不同,在舉辦維基演講或其他活動的時候,要在什麼地方架設這樣的攝影機最為適當?
Offer prizes that contest participants want to win.
More and more members of the community are parents
Inviting international delegates to an event, some of them are required to obtain a visa (sometimes even more due to a stop over in a country) in order to be able to travel and attend the event. Visa applications require careful preparation and a profound knowledge of the relevant processes and requirements behind it. Being not well prepared or informed about these facts, problems may arise. Occasionally, it happens that the invited guests experience obstacles in the visa application process or can’t even attend the event as a result of their visa request denial.
You want to get into the habit of writing documentation on a regular basis
You need to write a new technical tool and there are already similar but unsuitable tools in existence.
How can someone arrange safe and cost-effective international travel?
Workshops and lectures for educators are traditional and in some point useless. Specially because these learning spaces don’t establish links between assistants or generate educational products. Most importantly, they do not generate a commitment to an education issue or present solutions to the educational realities of the attendees.
Activities and proposals between the Wikimedia Education Programs and schools are usually punctual and an exceptional. It is possible to generate different strategies to promote a stronger and more relevant relations, to inspire long term projects and experiences.
Transferring an experience like the design, implementation and evaluation of an education program is not always an easy task: what we share and how we do it, to make it a valuable contribution to a program that is starting or wants to be strengthened in some aspect.
How can Wikimedia contributors do outreach at a non-wiki academic conference?
Wikimedia project participants need a way to document what they do and why they do it.
Reaching out to high schools and generating interest.
You want to bring brochures, training guides or other materials to an event, but you don't have any yourself.
How do you know if your education program is successful?
It can be hard to write a good report on complex projects in which multiple people are responsible for individual activities.
You set great contest goals, now all you need is strategies to achieve them!
Legal practices for surveys differ around the world
You conduct a photography contest like Wiki Loves Monuments several years in a row. Over time, how can you keep up or even intensify volunteer engagement?
What do educators need to learn before using Wikimedia in course.
Inexperienced users often upload to Commons uncategorized, poorly described and then abandoned stuff, which remains invisible and unutilized for ages.
Some programs were not tailored to the local volunteers' needs and wants and became ineffective.
A low-cost solution to effectively promote an event to all readers on your Wikipedia
There are many excellent resources for teaching with Wikipedia. But for feminist non-Wikipedian instructors limited by time or skill, it's not always feasible to devote time to including content editing in a course syllabus. What other ways can feminist non-Wikipedian instructors can use the encyclopedia in their instruction?
As an education program leader, how do you manage course pages, facilitate community engagement with students, monitor user contributions and evaluate your program?
Imagine the awkward situation when after announcing the winners in a contest for encyclopedic photography, fake photomontage images are detected among the winners. Ooops!
Volunteers and staff don't always work together effectively
Which scalable solution can we use to teach new contributors how to contribute to Wikimedia project?
What can you do to plan for success when teaching students to contribute to Wikimedia?
New editors or students are making many mistakes with Wiki markup.
Student and educator user pages, articles, edits or content are being deleted.
The Wikimedia Foundation requests "global metrics" reporting when providing grant funding for Wikimedia outreach. Learning to report global metrics is its own skill set, as is making this data locally relevant.
You want to organize a Wiki Loves Monuments contest, but it is difficult to obtain documentation of cultural heritage sites.
Your community has good photographers, but they need better equipment.
Strategies to achieve goals to integrate photos from projects and contests into Wiki projects.
Many nonprofit organizations keep insurance as a way to manage the liability they assume as an organization.
Providing the best resources for your institution to learn about Wikipedia
You want to check student contributions for errors or monitor their progress on an education program assignment.
How do you get students interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects as part of a course?
Edits, files, and bytes contributed and other metrics may not totally represent the significance of content contributions that involve creating or improving many pages.
It is easier to demonstrate impact if you can show who participated, or benefited, from your work.
You need to represent the potential impact of your outreach project on the growth of the Wikimedia movement.
You do not know if you need to work with the Ministry of Education in your region.
How to plan an enjoyable and effective Wiki expedition.
How to plan an aerial photography project.
Drafting the programme for the annual 3-day edition of a relatively large-scale regional event, such as the annual Wikimedia CEE Meeting, can be a daunting task.
How can safe and cost-effective automobile travel to events be arranged?
You want to start an education program, but you are not sure what kind of educators and students you should work with.
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Do you want to learn more about someone's perspective and experiences? Have you ever conducted an interview only to find you've very little usable information at the end?
Sweepstakes, contests, and giveaways have strict legal requirements
In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
The community is having frequent problems with students or new editors.
Sometimes, the audio-visual apparatus fails to work and the participants spend a lot of time to make it working.
You host an edit-a-thon and no one knows what to work on.
Participation hasn't increased in the past seven years.
The crowdfunding campaign for the German Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci did not reach its financial goal.
How to evaluate student contributions to Wikimedia for a grade or mark.
How to change Wiki Loves contests to maintain volunteer and participant interest.
How do you keep all your ducks in a row to organize an edit-a-thon?
This learning pattern gives guidance on how to find information about writing a legal disclaimer. This is not legal guidance, but information instead about how to obtain legal guidance.
I do not know if I should make a work list for an editing contest.
I want to pick a writing contest topic that will be popular with new or existing editors.
Building enthusiasm, initiative and promoting a project
Community members are reverting student edits or deleting user pages.
Are you a medical educator? Want to work with your students on adding quality medical content to Wikipedia and don't know how to get started?
Wiki Takes ... is free content generation with some cultural and social extras.
It can be difficult to find information about the accomplishments of Wikimedia organizations for somebody not already familiar with those organizations.
There is no organization of historical images according to year, ethnicity or other categories related to historical interpretation on Wikipedia.
During the experiences developed in the long distance course, «Puentes entre las culturas escolares, digitales y libres» (Bridges between school, digital and free cultures) made in 2014 and 2015 we found the difficulty of engaging and supporting teachers in the course and in editing articles on Wikipedia.
What you learn from your survey, and how you can use that knowledge, depends who you ask (and how many people respond).
Make audiovisuals material it´s not only hire a designer or editing a video. This work has several layers of analysis that should be considered. In many cases do not take notes of this and the goals are not fullfilled.
What do you do with data from Wikimedia projects or research?
Your organization needs to grow or you are trying to work out a strategic plan but you have trouble establishing priorities for development.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of every project, hence the need to retain them for future projects.
How can we evaluate outcomes of particular programs as compared to their costs?
Survey questions often ask for ordered responses, but it can be hard to think of them on the spot
Banners are not the only way to reach users quickly on-wiki
Expanding MT coverage with Wikipedia-relevant translations
Userpage or user page is used to organize your important details to remember, such as user languages, userboxes, etc. It formerly used as sliding, enabling users to scroll accurately between the skin.
Education uses work sheets for teaching in schools
Introductory presentations to Wikipedia can be confusing as many new things have to be said
Some people in important positions would not read their email, miss important information, and create inconsistency and confusion.
New editors are discouraged by old users' interventions and (secondary) cannot organize their work with ease. Less computer-literated people have a hard time trying to contribute.
Slow access through help for immediately needed stuff
How to keep course information organized in a central, public space so educators, volunteers and the community can identify student work?
How to make the most out of Wikimedians travelling to events for the wider community and how to overcome the limitations of written reports.
It is difficult to carry out evaluation and sharing because of language barriers
Managing a survey project can be difficult
How can we use Google Calendar to track of how many hours we have spent on a project?
I want to know the best way to track contest submissions.
Most of the world doesn't know Wikipedia and what is about.
Unlike Wikis, tools are maintained by fewer people – the platform change very quickly and tools will no longer function.
Users can spend a lot of time on surveys and get survey fatigue
Local groups need a clearly identifiable meeting place to organize actions.
Many education programs have a closed proposal that do not include the teacher's own experiences and context, but expect them to apply certain practices any ways.
It can be confusing how to do qualitative analysis for surveys
To ensure there is a continuous conversation with the community about changes in processes by maintaining communication.
MediaWiki pages are static, but interactive group workspaces work need to be dynamic.
At different points in a process you need to get different kinds of information from participants.
Get experienced photographers to continue to contribute quality images after photo contests have ended.
Some outreach program leaders manage to make a long time impact on many outreach participants where some fail to understand why their hard work did not paid for.
Staying connected to volunteer editors and potential volunteers can be a challenge, especially if there is a lapse of time between events.
Basic issues and major discussions within the communities cannot be solved productively by the means available to the individual, and often prove to be unfruitful and frustrating. It is impossible to compensate those social dynamics with classic support methods, solely addressing material and organisational needs.
Participants are not motivated to contribute throughout the duration of a month-long edit-a-thon
Mutual experience and shared learnings are key to practice our culture of sharing. Given the sheer variety of international target groups and communication channels, how do we best get the word out about our publications?
How can safe and short-distance travel to events be arranged?
Your GLAM partner wants to know how the media they have shared are being used.
We need to engage more undergraduate and graduate level students to edit Wikipedia.
Having over 10,000 submissions in a photo contest is great, but selecting winners is tricky
You are organizing a hack-a-thon and you want participants to share their work
Recruiting inexperienced newcomers for open source software development projects is valuable, but it is a great risk if you don't know anything about the person yet.
Tulu Wikipedia started as an incubator project in 2008, there was some activity in 2008-09 and remained almost dormant till 2014. It needed to be made live.
Non availability of reliable resources in Telugu language, especially online, related to Telugu Language, Culture, Social and Political Aspects
In India, the university students are expected to submit a report as part of their classroom assignments as paper work. However, the reports, post evaluation, never get published anywhere.
We all know PR editing happens on Wikipedia. How can we reduce the amount, and impact, of it?
Some groups, organizations, or projects want to develop longer term plans to guide them toward their long term goals
The members, gathered in local groups, may have difficulty maintaining a group dynamic when not related to a specific action.
Image banks sometimes tile large images to safe on server load. In order to get the full resolution image on Wikimedia Commons, these tiles need to be recombined
Find the right people and tools to judge a writing or photo contest.
How can we persuade the general public to contribute?
There were very few articles related to women's studies and gender. In order to generate quality content, one of our institutional partner followed peer reviewing process and expert feedback from the faculty to create a quality article.
Introduction for beginner-level developers new to the Wikimedia sphere
Proofreading large amounts of text is a very demanding task. The process should be planned intelligently and operate in an "always learning" mode.
Prioritizing articles when we are trying to improve quality is tough task. Especially when there are many articles and volunteers think that they should spend their time in improving most prior article to the project.
Surveys are great tools for collecting data, but caution should be taken when asking people for their information
Whenever you make a project, you are expected to produce a report, but it is boring and when you finish the project you just wish to do something else.
Problems may come up when using Wikimedia in education.
When working in a team project, sometimes team members do not have the same overall idea for how the project should proceed, which might lead to a loss of overall direction
When working on a project with a team, it can take a lot of time to work on various documents when only one person is writing them.
To reduce the amount of future transition issues while a Project is currently being built
How to plan a course, camp, workshop or other multi-session program that will teach students how to contribute to WIkimedia projects.
Help beginners to rejoin the volunteer photographers community
New editors who are just learning to use Wikipedia benefit from a collaborative environment.
Surveys involve data, which may involve laws
Co-animate training on free licensing and on co-construction of knowledge through the Wikimedia projects to high school students.
You are planning an event and want to work with another organization to provide prizes, promotion or support from subject experts.
Steps to follow while organising a photowalk for Wikimedia Commons.
While it is important for students to be integrated into Wikimedia movement, a generic orientation programme does not serve the purpose.
Orientation programme for WEP activity usually involves a large crowd of 150-200 students.
You want to start an education program and are not sure how to find educators to collaborate with.
OER creation using Wikibooks. Creation of free content textbook using Wikibooks
You have a project idea that you believe is powerful but you don't have all the skills to make it real.
Many affiliates send volunteers to Wikimania. But can we ensure - espcially in smaller communities - that we don't only sent the same people every year.
If you dealing with small human capacities so you want to address several different target groups at once.
You are interested in measuring a WikiProject's activity to determine how active it is as a project, or to determine its potential to become an active project.
How can we facilitate a range of people contributing to publicity for an event and monitor their effectiveness?
It can be difficult for all-volunteer organizations to create an annual report each year at the time it is expected.
Wikimedia affiliates addressing the same language community can lead to internal and external nebulosity and confusion.
You want to resolve a disagreement between a student or educator and a Wikimedia community member.
To get the most out of an event, people need to understand what they hear and what they read.
Often during panel and round table discussions, there is a lot of discussion that essentially becomes pointless and/or directionless.
Often, emails and text-messages are insufficient to attract volunteers. Some volunteers will say "yes" at first, but do not actually come at the D-day.
Wikimedia organizations, and sometimes other organizations and individuals responsible to the movement, need a way to show what they spent and received during the year.
Wikipedia can be effective used as a rich resource for authentic texts for translation classes. Trainee translators can choose and translate their preferable texts from Wikipedia.
Groups, organizations, and project leaders may find it difficult to summarize an entire year's worth of work in an annual report.
It is sometimes hard to get local sponsors or partners to support one's activities and projects
I need to connect proposal and report reviewers to relevant learning patterns.
New articles written by students or educators are being deleted.
You come across an idea or concept that doesn't have a learning pattern
How do we go about lobbying in competition with an enormous lobby?
In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
There is a lack of a framework for supporting the volunteers and enabling mutual information sharing and collaboration.
Chapter workplans are developed by a small group and may not be representative of what is really needed
Is an online survey the right choice to solve a problem?
Increase editor retention after a project or program ends.
You have a limited budget and want to host your event in a public place.
How to improve quality, increase user retention or reach more participants through photo contests and events.
Articles written by students or new editors can be low quality.
Translation content - especially in groups - is an effective way to build Wikipedia content. Finding gaps can be tricky if you are not familiar with a particular subject, and identifying priority areas to translate helps direct this work.
Sometimes you need or you are asked to write an agreement with a GLAM or another institution to partner with it on the Wikimedia projects.
You need to recruit your first paid employee, or a valued volunteer who will help your organization with specific tasks. You need this person to understand their role, and you need the organization to understand what they are doing too.
It can be easy to dive into arguments with out truly listening to each other
You don't know what the best messages and strategies are to speak to an educator about using Wikimedia in the classroom.
You need to have good practices in place before you take on the responsibility of paid staff or contractors.
WMF has been conducting site visits as part of their due dilligence reviews over the past few years. However, apart from the formalities these visits are agreat opportunity to showcase the work of affiliates and adressing grant making challenges on both sides.
How to teach primary students how to position their own pictures to improve Wikipedia articles.
You want to organize Wiki Love Monuments or Wiki Loves Earth for the first time.
Wikipedia face the challenge of including articles that refer as much cultures as possible, properly.
Reaching out to an audience which is not yet part of your community (e.g. game developers and designers) can be challenging, but has great potential to enlarge your existing community.
In many remote schools far away from the big cities, the Internet connectivity is not good. Especially if many people connect at the same time. Educational editathons seeking to value local histories, so to realize them in these cities is essential to create installed capacity with the local people. In many cases, the geographical distance is big, so have a trip by the WMAR Staff or volunteers is something that we can do once or twice, I have to be an important and complete experience where we can detect potential ambassadors to enroll.
The more effective we collaborate in our organizations or project teams the more impact we can create with the available resources. Kaizen is a low-threshold approach achieve this.
Often specific training are not enough for teachers to generate projects with Wikipedia in the classroom with good results.
Education proposals aimed often teachers, but students are valuable allies to motorize and actively accompany the Wikimedia projects in the classroom. Young people are active users of Wikipedia, recognizing its value as a reference, so that the interest of teachers in captivate their attention is already guaranteed. On the other hand are, students are great communicators of values and ways of Wikipedia.
Effective organizations and groups need funding for program expenses and operating expenses, but aren't able to undergo the rigorous FDC process.
A campaign on Wikimedia Commons has two goals: first, it is about generating easier access to photos of a certain institution or theme; second, participants of the campaign already have the category added to the photos they upload and can easily find all their files grouped in one place.
Sometimes government and governmental bodies will propose policy and legislation that will have negative impact on the Wikimedia projects and free and open knowledge.
Storytelling about the work of your organization / group
The Wikimedia movement is lacking new contributors, how can we solve the challenge of finding new users
This pattern is intended to help User Groups in selecting appropriate delegates for Wikimedia Conference.
Training women to participate in Wikipedia
Many new but promising editors encounter that one of their articles gets marked for deletion.
Cuando se hace un concurso online para crear artículos en Wikipedia, las evaluaciones suelen ser muy dispares y subjetivas
Sometimes we don't know how to match our projects with our existing volunteer community. We all lack volunteers when projects get deeper or bigger. How to deal with this?
It is often impossible or very expensive to get information from an entire population
Multi-day conferences and hackathons have a lot happening, and it can be easy to get swept up in it and not get enough sleep. This then devalues the subsequent day(s) of the event, which is bad.
How to avoid typical rookie mistakes when hiring your first staff.
Making good SMART program objectives is hard at first!
How to better prepared the participants for the notability and verifiability guidelines during gender gap bridging events.
Sometimes forms are incomplete because applicants and grantees can't answer a question that doesn't apply to them or their situation.
Women represent 9–20% of the Wikipedia editing community worldwide. It can be isolating and difficult for women to know how and when to call attention to the problem, and how to promote gender diversity on WIkipedia.
Wikimedia affiliates often face the organization of many events in a very short time.
After a software release and its spreading, users start to interact with it and rapidly they come up with many precious ideas. According to circumstances there are better ways to provide a channel for collecting them.
Featured Articles are some of the most difficult to improve for new editors because the pages are already high-quality.
During a conference, the facilitator’s toolbox ensures that the facilitator has all the tools they need. It may contain items for the facilitator's own use or items that the conference participants may need.
Even with an Oxford degree, I don't feel qualified to edit.
Community discussions are an important tool for progress and decision making in our movement. In order to be productive, they usually require a discussion facilitator, who makes sure the discussion progresses as planned. What makes a good facilitator? What are some do's and don'ts for a successful facilitation process?
You need to extract a clean list of usernames from a wiki page
You do not want to lose your time in formatting the table and copy/pasting section that come from the proposal or a previous report
In large conferences with over 100 participants, it is not always possible to meet all participants and encourage conversations with all people. It is possible that one misses meeting people she/he intended to meet.
It is hard to remember all the variables involved when planning an event and even harder to assess how they will impact on one another. Leaving things out of the planning jeopardises success and creates more stress too.
Writing project evaluations can be challenging if you cannot quantify what the outcomes of a project mean.
When lists of moments don't have coordinates, they can't be projected onto a map
If you are moving around internationally, don't underestimate the need for local knowledge.
Making the process of applying for grants more appealing and attractive.
Simple guidelines for obtaining data about in-kind resources of events
You want to encourage participation on Wikipedia to remediate systemic biases in Wikipedia's coverage
Non-Wikipedian experts are often interested in Wikipedia, but don't have the time to commit to editing. This learning pattern proposes a concrete way of engaging them
How can you explain Wikipedia to a group of people without any Wikipedia experience by letting them write a Wikipedia article?
When organizing a series of editathons, especially with mostly new editors, it is crucial to have their feedback in order to improve the methodology or approach according to the needs and comments of participants.
You want to plan an editing or writing contest.
You are a Wikimedia Education Program manager/volunteer and you wish to collaborate with new high-schools, but it can be time consuming and the quality of outcome is at question.
Expos and other such events have a lot of exhibitors competing for attention and most potential visitors to your booth will have little knowledge of Wikimedia projects beforehand.
We need to increase the amount of direct donations we receive every year
Existing projects have strange, complicated requirements. Users can be highly resistant to change. Problems are complicated.
How to create a meaningful mission statement that your most important stakeholders can identify with.
Creating a machine translator for your language
The best programs focus on one or two realistic goals and have clear measures of success.
How to generate a proposal for training on issues of digital culture and en:open educational resources
I need to send a prize, mini-grant or item to someone living in a different country.
Editor retention, follow up and awareness
Not many in the Wikimedia community are well aware of running queries or even using tools to acquire different kinds of data-points.
Burn out for multi-location edit-a-thon organizers
The learning curve for creating articles is far too high.
You don't know how best to organize and share localized or translated training and outreach materials with students and other educators.
You are designing an outreach program and would like to address the needs of the online community
Newbie biting is a major problem over Wikimedia movement and it reduces retention of newbie.
You want to set up or improve an editing contest scoring system.
I don't have enough time to score, judge and track contest submissions manually.
Streamlining the user experience for non-Wikipedians
Wikipedia is not well accepted in education
Find some easy ways to teach people and encourage to contribute into Wikimedia/MediaWiki
What to do if you are in an activity (workshop, editathon, etc.) and there are problems with the Internet connection
Survey takers want to know - what will you do with their data?
Demand for a program may exceed the resources you have available.
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Smaller wikis need relatively less maintenance efforts, but after longer periods of community inactivity, it becomes gradually more difficult to detect – and clean – fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff.
You are an instructor and you want to teach your students about Wikipedia
How to create a single document/book from multiple wiki pages
In large conferences, the participants do not get to meet people who have similar interests as they have.
How can we connect GLAM partners and community members?
Sometimes, users in a photography project forget to categorize their photos as belonging or generated through the project
You need to make sure that you don't accidentally leave important questions out of your survey.
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
We're trying to find new ways of financing projects
How can organizers arrange accomodations at meetups in a cost-effective way?
It has always been a problem to cultivate new editors for Indian language Wikipedia projects as Indian languages are complex, and so are the input methods as learning the same is mostly not part of the school syllabus in India. Encyclopedic writing, Wiki markup and guidelines with an added layer of linguistic and language input complexity has been a bigger obstacle in cultivating new editors.
To run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
The Wikimedia movement has a large variety of assonant terms which mean different things but they are confusing and mysterious for the majority of humankind.
You want to improve the software that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Browse patterns
Patterns about how to plan, run, grow and scale education programs.
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/ko
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/ko
- Learning patterns/Outreach for participants without laptops
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/hu
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/hu
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/de
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/de
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/pt
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/da
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/da
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/ne
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/en
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects/es
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/ne
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/es
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community/en
- Learning patterns/Using Community Building Exercises to Teach Digital Writing Skills
- Learning patterns/Coordinating Amongst Student Courses
- Learning patterns/EduWiki resources for Maithili Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Balancing work life and online learning
- Learning patterns/Preparation to be carried out for EduWiki programs
- Learning patterns/Completing online training courses
- Learning patterns/Research on Wikipedia as a thesis' project
- Learning patterns/Three Different Models of Wikipedia Assignments
- Learning patterns/Effect of page visibility on contribution
- Learning patterns/university laboratory research accounting
- Learning patterns/Evaluation of data affected by seasonal or calendar effects
- Learning patterns/Collaborate with teachers who share your enthusiasm
- Learning patterns/Make it easy to identify student editors
- Editing Learning patterns/Working with psychiatric patients in an editing workshop
- Editing Learning patterns/Trabajar con pacientes psiquiátricos en un taller de edición
- Learning patterns/Wikimedia events and Instructional design
- Learning patterns/Promoting the work of students as part of Wikiedu programs on social media platforms
- Learning patterns/Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit
- Learning patterns/How to choose patients for an editing teaching course
- Learning patterns/How to avoid abandoning the course when your students have intellectual or mental disabilities
- Learning patterns/Wikipedia as a tool for astronomy education and outreach
- Learning patterns/Digital information literacy with Wikipedia for public library staff
- Learning patterns/Meeting the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia with online training
- Learning patterns/MediaWiki Education Program
- Learning patterns/Creation of an editing workshop or course with patients in an institution.
- Learning patterns/Wikimedia young projects in therapy settings with psychiatric patients.
- Category:Education patterns/Translations
- Learning patterns/Edit-a-thon in classroom
- Learning patterns/How to design and develop an education hackathon within the Wikipedia Education Program
- Learning patterns/How to generate a stronger and more relevant relationship with the schools
- Learning patterns/Use Wikimedia content to assist teaching Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Featured Articles in classroom courses
- Learning patterns/Wikipedia & Medicine: Practical Details for Educators
- Learning patterns/Why we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016?
- Learning patterns/How to generate new editors in onsite proposals with teachers
- Learning patterns/Orienatation of students for WEP
- Learning patterns/How to set the number of images in an article and preserve the quality
- Learning patterns/Matching newcomers to Wikimedia projects and activities: nurturing happy, passionate editors:)
- Learning patterns/Disengaging from Wikipedia warfare
- Learning patterns/How to transfer the knowledge and the experience of an Education Program
- Learning patterns/How to make an Educational Editathon without a good Internet's connectivity
- Learning patterns/Peer support for new editors
- Learning patterns/Relicensing encyclopedic work under CC license to grow Wikisource and Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Orientation for WEP
- Learning patterns/Using Wikipedia's gaps as feminist teaching tools
- Learning patterns/How to generate engagement with students to become a Wikiambassador
- Learning patterns/Use work sheets for school students
- Learning patterns/Use an article nursery garden for each new editor
- Learning patterns/A hybrid learning curve from a Wikipedia Education Program
- Learning patterns/Reimagining traditional classroom assignments
- Learning patterns/OER creation using Wikibooks
- Learning patterns/Track Wikipedia "Knowledge Leafage" of each trainee
- Learning patterns/Use of a single diagram to imprint Wikipedia basics onto newcomers
- Learning patterns/Recruiting high school participants
- Learning patterns/Consolidate Wikipedia and Education using UNESCO's principles for education
- Learning patterns/Use cheatsheeting in the form of a collapsible toolbox
- Learning patterns/Pedagogical scenario implementation
- Learning patterns/Planning a course or program where students will contribute to Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Evaluate student work
- Learning patterns/Monitor student contributions
- Learning patterns/You are teaching, but are they learning?
- Learning patterns/Training educators how to use Wikimedia in the classroom
- Learning patterns/Find volunteers to support a program
- Learning patterns/How to talk to educators about using Wikimedia in the classroom
- Learning patterns/Article assessment for student assignments
- Learning patterns/Design of a proposed distance learning resource
- Learning patterns/Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community
- Learning patterns/The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Partnerships with ministries of education
- Learning patterns/Improve the quality of articles written by new editors
- Learning patterns/Identifying content gaps
- Learning patterns/Manage disputes
- Learning patterns/Choose promising program participants
- Learning patterns/Create a community policy for education programs
- Learning patterns/Request brochures or other materials from WMF
- Learning patterns/Setting goals for an education program
- Learning patterns/Get the community involved early
- Learning patterns/Problem solving for education programs
- Learning patterns/Focus on content
- Learning patterns/Plan an education program pilot
- Learning patterns/Outreach to educators
- Learning patterns/Choosing an education program model
- Learning patterns/Create a portal for your education program
- Learning patterns/Using the education extension
- Learning patterns/Help new editors learn Wikimarkup
- Learning patterns/Teaching new editors about copyright
- Learning patterns/Local standards of notability
- Learning patterns/Use course pages to organize student assignments
- Learning patterns/Bringing your students to edit-a-thons
- Learning patterns/Help students and educators understand community rules and norms
- Learning patterns/Working constructively with the Wikimedia community
- Learning patterns/Training senior citizens
- Learning patterns/Motivating students to contribute to Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Making translation classes more interactive via Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Help the "deletionists' victims"
- Learning patterns/New users are afraid of doing something wrong
- Learning patterns/Best practices in training adults
- Learning patterns/Creating new articles
- Learning patterns/Mix newcomers and veterans
- Learning patterns/Project roles
- Talk:Learning patterns/Motivating students to contribute to Wikimedia projects
Patterns about evaluating the impact of a project, program, initiative, or event using data (edit counts, interviews, surveys).
- Learning patterns/Evaluating project outcomes/hu
- Learning patterns/Evaluating project outcomes/en
- Learning patterns/Analysing effects of offline meetups
- Learning patterns/Collecting data on offline meetups
- Learning patterns/Working with the Wikipedia data dump for research
- Learning patterns/Cookies by the exit
- Learning patterns/Editathon evaluation form
- Learning patterns/Effect of page visibility on contribution
- Learning patterns/Evaluation of data affected by seasonal or calendar effects
- Editing Learning patterns / How to write a report when working with mental health patients
- Editing Learning patterns/Como redactar un informe cuando se trabaja con pacientes de salud mental
- Learning patterns/Audience response system
- Learning patterns/Cooperative note-taking at meetings and workshops
- Learning patterns/How to prepare and plan for Online Edit-a-thons
- Learning patterns/Capturing User names at workshops
- Learning patterns/Use tags to count and track edits
- Learning patterns/How to generate a stronger and more relevant relationship with the schools
- Learning patterns/Privacy considerations for surveys
- Learning patterns/Guía con criterios para evaluar artículos en un concurso
- Learning patterns/Why we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016?
- Learning patterns/Learning pattern needed
- Learning patterns/Using ordered response scales
- Learning patterns/How to use the global metrics magic button
- Learning patterns/Treasures or landmines: detecting uncategorized, language-specific uploads in Commons
- Learning patterns/A hybrid learning curve from a Wikipedia Education Program
- Learning patterns/Reimagining traditional classroom assignments
- Learning patterns/Track Wikipedia "Knowledge Leafage" of each trainee
- Learning patterns/Link to relevant learning patterns in proposals and reports
- Learning patterns/Cleaning the Augean stables: DIY discovery of fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff
- Learning patterns/Tools are short-lived, so archive your pages
- Learning patterns/Article assessment for student assignments
- Learning patterns/Using the education extension
- Learning patterns/Tracking user contributions by chapter
- Category:Survey patterns
- Category:Wikimetrics learning patterns
- User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/GLAM learning pattern
- Learning patterns/Timing and tenaciousness - How to ensure high participation rates at post-conference surveys
- Learning patterns/Prepare the report at the beginning of your project and update it while the project is developing.
- Learning patterns/Wikimedia organizations can use the Reports page on Meta!
- Learning patterns/Using the general ledger and project codes to evaluate outcomes
- Learning patterns/Set up a GitHub profile for your hack-a-thons
- Learning patterns/Wall of compliments
- Learning patterns/Conducting a semi-structured interview
- Learning patterns/Git repository for software
- Learning patterns/Number of newly registered users
- Learning patterns/Number of active editors involved
- Learning patterns/Translation
- Learning patterns/Number of individuals involved
- Learning patterns/Learning question
- Learning patterns/Calculating global metrics
- Learning patterns/Bytes added to or removed from Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Number of images or media used in Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Number of articles created or improved in Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Use hidden categories to track projects
- Learning patterns/Tracking an online campaign
- Learning patterns/Forms with blank responses can be confusing!
- Learning patterns/Evaluating project outcomes
- Learning patterns/Posters that work
- Learning patterns/Using expense-tracking software
- Learning patterns/Facilitate the preparation of an FDC report
- Learning patterns/Show statistics to GLAM partners
- Learning patterns/Statboard
- Learning patterns/Collecting usernames for in-person events
- Learning patterns/Community impact
- Learning patterns/Achievable goals
- Learning patterns/Feedback cycle
- Learning patterns/Counting featured, quality and valued content in Commons
- Learning patterns/Qualtrics survey tool
- Learning patterns/Gender identity
- Learning patterns/Charts on wiki pages
- Learning patterns/Short reports go a long way
- Learning patterns/Photographic evidence
- Learning patterns/Asking the right questions
- Learning patterns/Who should we survey?
- Learning patterns/Surfacing activity
- Learning patterns/Surveys at different points
- Learning patterns/Framing survey questions
- Category:Evaluation measurement learning patterns
- Category:Evaluation design learning patterns
- Category:Global metrics patterns
- Category:Reporting patterns
Patterns about Wikimedia events, such as editathons, meetups, and conferences.
- Learning patterns/How to write a thousand articles about your country without getting tired (workshops)
- Category:Event patterns/Translations
- Learning patterns/How to generate publicity and foster collaboration: Organizing an event series
- Learning patterns/How to introduce a new target group to free knowledge and open source
- Category:Editing workshops learning patterns
- Category:Workshops learning patterns
- Category:Photo events learning patterns
- Category:Conferences learning patterns
- Category:Hackathon learning patterns
- Category:Event management learning patterns
- Category:Editathons learning patterns
- Learning patterns/Timing and tenaciousness - How to ensure high participation rates at post-conference surveys
Patterns addressing the Wikipedia Gender Gap—including outreach campaigns, publicity and advocacy, and research studies.
- Learning patterns/Building a community around gender gap issues
- Learning patterns/Engaging Regional US-Based Museums Around the Gender Gap
- Learning patterns/It doesn't need to be always feminist to attract women users
- Learning patterns/Museum Image Releases to Coincide with Exhibit Openings
- Learning patterns/How to measure from a gender perspective
- Learning patterns/How to create or edit an article in terms of gender approach
- Learning patterns/Como ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres en nuestras comunicaciones.
- Learning patterns/How to write communications materials with a balanced portrayal of women and men
- Learning patterns/Bringing women together to work towards gender and linguistic inclusiveness
- Learning patterns/Following Wikipedia policies in gender gap events
- Learning patterns/Service Credit for University Students
- Learning patterns/Working with an existing movement....
- Learning patterns/Peer support for new editors
- Learning patterns/Quality content generation
- Learning patterns/Using Wikipedia's gaps as feminist teaching tools
- Learning patterns/Recruiting high school participants
- Learning patterns/Consolidate Wikipedia and Education using UNESCO's principles for education
- Learning patterns/How to get diverse presenters at your conference (from a gender, Global South... perspective)
- Learning patterns/Hosting a multi-location gender gap edit-a-thon
- Category:Gender learning patterns/Translations
- Learning patterns/Gender identity
- Learning patterns/Safe space policy
- Learning patterns/Fostering affinity groups
Patterns describing WMF grantmaking's global metrics.
- Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Global Metrics for Grants: one way of doing, reporting and learning better
- Learning patterns/How to use the global metrics magic button
- Learning patterns/Tracking user contributions by chapter
- Learning patterns/Number of newly registered users
- Learning patterns/Number of active editors involved
- Learning patterns/Number of individuals involved
- Learning patterns/Learning question
- Learning patterns/Calculating global metrics
- Learning patterns/Bytes added to or removed from Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Number of images or media used in Wikimedia projects
- Learning patterns/Number of articles created or improved in Wikimedia projects
Patterns to learn about organizing online initiatives or events, on-wiki collaborations, or tools to encourage participation
- Learning patterns/Organize paid translators for your on-wiki information
- Learning patterns/Valoriser les contenus et l’implication bénévole
- Learning patterns/Collecting data on requests for adminship
- Learning patterns/Using Community Building Exercises to Teach Digital Writing Skills
- Learning patterns/Using a chapter Discord server
- Learning patterns/Working with a dev team from different timezones
- Learning patterns/Vote Matching Tool (Digital-o-Mat)
- Learning patterns/Developing sustained academic-expert engagement
- Learning patterns/Setting up a two-day, two-track conference online
- Learning patterns/Implementing VideoWiki on your Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Online community meeting platform
- Learning patterns/Wikidata verification-pages tool
- Learning patterns/Promoting the work of students as part of Wikiedu programs on social media platforms
- Learning patterns/How to prepare an infographics
- Learning patterns/Organizing "Wiki Loves" campaigns
- Learning patterns/Using social media to promote endangered, indigenous and other marginalized languages
- Learning patterns/A Short Guide to Using Twitter for In-event Engagement
- Learning patterns/Designing portals on wikis
- Learning patterns/Identifying articles for translation
- Learning patterns/Use tags to count and track edits
- Category:Online engagement patterns/Translations
- Learning patterns/Filling content gaps
- Learning patterns/Cultivating interest among the editors during activities
- Learning patterns/Using social media channels for editors retention
- Learning patterns/Ensuring your wiki project is inclusive
- Learning patterns/What to consider when we generated audiovisual materials?
- Learning patterns/Using 'Share a fact' to engage social media followers of small Wikipedias
- Learning patterns/Make use of mistakes on Wikipedia
- Learning patterns/Matching newcomers to Wikimedia projects and activities: nurturing happy, passionate editors:)
- Learning patterns/Disengaging from Wikipedia warfare
- Learning patterns/Harvesting new Wikimedians from social media
- Learning patterns/Measuring a WikiProject's community and activity
- Learning patterns/Coordinating with a WikiProject
- Learning patterns/Mass messaging
- Learning patterns/Making the Digital Library of India really useful
- Learning patterns/Set up a GitHub profile for your hack-a-thons
- Learning patterns/Photographing your local buildings
- Learning patterns/Feedback cycle
- Learning patterns/Tracking user contributions by chapter
- Learning patterns/Writing a new MediaWiki extension for deployment on a Wikimedia project
- Learning patterns/Help the "deletionists' victims"
- Learning patterns/Wikipedia visual museum
- Learning patterns/Fear of editing
- Learning patterns/New users are afraid of doing something wrong
- Learning patterns/Improving your building photography
Patterns about structuring formal organizations (such as Wikimedia chapters, user groups, and thematic organizations) effectively.
- Learning patterns/Wikiblabla (confusing Wikimedia lexicon)
- Learning patterns/Wikipedian at Large
- Learning patterns/Wikimedian-in-residence mentorship model
- Learning patterns/Vote Matching Tool (Digital-o-Mat)
- Learning patterns/Slow and spacious: feminist practices of care during Covid-19
- Learning patterns/Let the community know
- Learning patterns/Clarity of expectations when setting up a partnership
- Learning patterns/Online community meeting platform
- Learning patterns/Partnerships require human-to-human connection
- Learning patterns/Grant projects are not startups
- Learning patterns/Starting a project with new paid personnel
- Learning patterns/Collaborate with teachers who share your enthusiasm
- Learning patterns/Estimating time and complexity
- Learning patterns/Tutorial on developing Wikipedia Animation and Explainer Videos
- Learning patterns/Wikiblitz
- Learning patterns/Quiet room
- Learning patterns/5 articles game
- Learning patterns/How to survive to an international edit-a-thon when you're the only coordinator
- Category:Organizational effectiveness learning patterns/Translations
- Learning patterns/Hiring an ED in your organisation
- Learning patterns/How to prepare an infographics
- Learning patterns/Mix newcomers and veterans
- Learning patterns/Cooperative note-taking at meetings and workshops
- Learning patterns/Digital-o-Mat
- Learning patterns/Hiring a Program Coordinator/Project Manager
- Learning patterns/Strategic planning retreat
- Learning patterns/Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa
- Learning patterns/Working with developers who are not Wikimedians
- Learning patterns/Creation of an editing workshop or course with patients in an institution.
- Learning patterns/Conducting expeditions
- Learning patterns/Using structured assessment tools for development planning
- Learning patterns/How User Groups can select Wikimedia Conference Delegates
- Learning patterns/A concise compendium to catastrophic conference calls
- Learning patterns/Conducting user experience research
- Learning patterns/Ensuring your wiki project is inclusive
- Learning patterns/A short guide to bad projects
- Learning patterns/Facilitating social interaction at conferences
- Learning patterns/How to apply for a Simple Annual Plan Grant
- Learning patterns/Board roles
- Learning patterns/How to make the most out of WMF site visits
- Learning patterns/How to write a job description
- Learning patterns/Get started with SMART program objectives!
- Learning patterns/Userpage organizer
- Learning patterns/How to campaign on a political issue
- Learning patterns/Sustaining dialogue with your community
- Learning patterns/How to implement quality management in your organization or team
- Learning patterns/Many affiliates, one language community
- Learning patterns/Leverage WMF relationship with Wikipedia Zero partners