WikiForHumanRights/Organize
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Organize an event
What?
We want to encourage editing across languages and contexts. To expand impact, organizers might consider:
- Hosting a webinar
- Hosting an Wikipedia editathon or editing workshop
- Running a local wiki drive or contest
- Recording expert feedback about a Wikipedia article
- Try something else? add it to the list
Need ideas? Watch our office hour video. If you need help please reach out to Alex Stinson astinson
wikimedia
org and Michel Bakni M.mbakni-ctr@wikimediaorg. Please remember to evaluate your context in light of local COVID-19 protocols for events, consider using the WMF Grants COVID risk assessment.
How?
Webinar or digital event
Human rights topics are not always straight forward for a general audience of Wikipedians and activist audiences may need help seeing the connection between Wikipedia and Human Rights Communication. Consider running a webinar in conversation with an expert organization. Hosting a webinar includes: designating a topic, inviting guests, hosting the event, and sharing that on social media channels.
Let participants know about the event by reporting it: click here to add a row to event page with Visual Editor
Edit-a-thon
To run an editathon, consider the following:
- Identify if you want to run a human rights editathon as part of the campaign. If you are a Wikimedia organizer, make sure to discuss with your local partners and decide the venue and location.
- If you don't have experience with editathon consider partnering with a local Wikimedia affiliate. If you need help please reach out to Alex Stinson astinson
wikimedia
org and Michel Bakni M.bakni-ctrwikimediaorg.
- If you don't have experience with editathon consider partnering with a local Wikimedia affiliate. If you need help please reach out to Alex Stinson astinson
- If you have never run an editathon before, we recommend reviewing the the Programs and Events Dashboard training on editathons before developing the event.
- Create a local wiki event page using the best practice for your wiki or community. Please use a tracking tool such as a Programs and Events Dashboard event as part of the Campaign. If you need help, see instructions below.
- Let us know by reporting your event by adding a row to event page with Visual Editor
If you need help running an editathon, consider checking out:
On-Wiki Campaign, Contest or Content Drive
To run a local content drive:
- Create a Homepage for the event on your Wiki (consider formatting it with your localized WAM template)
- Create a page on your local wiki for letting people sign up and report their contributions. We recommend including:
- A brief explanation for the campaign
- A way for People to Sign Up
- A place to report work that they did as part of the campaign
- Consider using notices, contacting village pumps, social media, mailing lists and other tools that you usually use to invite people!
- We invite you to think about ways of overlapping with other campaigns (e.g. Wiki Loves Earth), WikiProjects or programs (i.e. CEE Spring).
- Let us know by reporting on the event list page with this link
Expert interview
Human rights, climate topics and other environmental issues topics are sometimes hard to navigate for non-experts. Several communities have been experimenting with various methods of collecting feedback from expert communities. In light of COVID, we recommend that organizers try recording.
Examples of this kind of organizing include:
- Wikimedia DC tried an Expert protocol to collect feedback as part of the National Academies of Science editathon in January 2020
- Wikimedia Switzerland and Écrire pour les droits experimented with expert consultations on missing information in migrant rights pages
- Wikimedistas de Uruguay recorded a critical reading workshop with activists and experts on missing information about underrepresented groups and the environment for the City of Montevideo page as part of an editathon.
Recording a critical reading can also help with creating expert videos describing why certain topics are important as part of Wikipedia articles (for example, see this #Wiki4Climate newsletter by Scann (en español).
If you record an expert, report it on the event table.
Other Resources
Here are some additional resources if you need help organizing. If you have questions, need advice or mentoring, or need support contact
Dashboard
Create a Programs and Events Dashboard event as part of the WikiForHumanRights Campaign. Make sure to pick an "Article Scoped Program".
Tracking "in scope" articles
To track contributions to the list of topics follow the following instructions:
- Go to the articles tab within the event you just created.
- Click on Add Petscan ID
- In another browser, Modify a Petscan Query:
- Go to Petscan ID 13015247
- In the Use Wiki section, pick your language Wikipedia in the last radio button and adding "enwiki" or similar.
- Click the "Do it!" button
- Copy the Petscan ID
- In the Programs and Events Dashboard, paste the PSID and click "Add this PSID"
- Add individuals who participate in your event to the campaign event, so we can track their participation and edits.
Funding
Do you need funding for your event? Rapid Grants are available, and will be prioritized for emerging communities. Please apply. Grants will be available during the entire window of March 1 - April 15 2021.
Working with Activists on Sensitive Topics
Human rights topics can be complicated to work on: they are both complex to write about and participants in events or activities may have strong emotional connections with the topics.
Wikimedia Argentina has been running events in several countries with activists working in Human Rights fields. They have developed a set of recommendations to keep in mind for your event:
Privacy and Safety
Working in Human Rights it's also important to pay attention to the safety of participants. Activist participants may be taking risks by being public. If you are concerned about safety at your event and want to learn more, we recommend taking this training and using the resources available on Commons.
If you have incident reported at your event, please share it with the Wikimedia Foundation's Support and Safety team: ca
wikimedia.org.
Keep in mind the campaign schedule
| Language | Event type | Target Community | Event Page | Coordinator | Date, time (w/ GMT) and (optional) location |
Tracking Page (i.e. Dashboard) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en, fr, zh, ar, es, ru | Webinar | International, global | Announcement on diff | Astinson (WMF) (talk · contribs) | April 15 2021, 3 pm GMT | NO TRACKING |
| en, ar, fr | Newcomer trainings | International, Global | Join us on April 16!
(fr) 14:30 GMT (zoom link) (en) 15:00 GMT (zoom link) (ar) 1900 GMT (zoom link) |
MBakni (WMF), Astinson (WMF) (talk · contribs) | April 16 | Dashboard coming soon |
| all | Writing challenge | International | WikiForHumanRights Challenge | MBakni (WMF) | April 15- May 15 | Participants |
| ar, ary, shi, fr | Editing contest | Local Moroccan community | WikiForHumanRights 2021 in Morocco | Abdeaitali (talk · contribs), Rachidourkia (talk · contribs) |
March 18th, 2021 at 00.00 am (GMT+1) | TBA |
| mk | edit-a-thons, editing days, editing weekends | Macedonian Wikipedia | Wiki for Human Rights 2021 | Kiril Simeonovski (talk · contribs) | 4 February 2021 15 April – 15 May 2021 |
Wiki for Human Rights 2021 |
| es | Edit-a-thon, others TBD | Spanish Wikipedia | Editatón en línea por la semana de la Tierra | Sophivorus (talk · contribs) Scann (talk · contribs) Cbrescia (talk · contribs) | 19 - 25 April 2021 | TBA |
| Ar, Fr | editing days | WikiDZ Algeria | TBD | TBD | 15 April 2021 to 15 May 2021 | TBD |
| en | Webinar, translatathon, Wiki festival | Caribbean,Caribbean Diaspora, North America, international, global | Wiki Caribbean Earthweek 2021 | Shanluan (talk · contribs) | April 17 - May 3 2021 | Wiki_Caribbean Earthweek 2021 |
| bcl, tl | Edit-a-thon, Translate-a-thon, Lectures | Central Bikol Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia | Wiki para sa Karapatan Pantawo | Daramlagon (talk · contribs) Kunokuno (talk · contribs) | 15 April to 15 May 2021 | Wiki para sa Karapatan Pantawo |
| en | Editathon, Editing Contest | Local Uganda Community | WikiForHumanRights 2021 in Uganda | Sandra Aceng, Kateregga1 | 24 April to May 15 2021 | WikiForHumanRights 2021 in Uganda |
| Ar, Fr, En | Edit-a-thon | Wikimedia Tunisia | TBD | TBD | 15 April 2021 to 15 May 2021 | TBD |
| Ha | Workshop and Editing Contest | Hausa Wikimedians User Group | Hausa Wikipedia Contest for Human Right Campaign 2021 | Abubakar A Gwanki (talk · contribs) | 15 April 2021 to 15 May 2021 | Dashboard |
| Ar | Editing Contest | Iraqi Wikimedians | WikiForHumanRights 2021 in Iraq | Ravan (talk · contribs) | 15 April 2021 to 15 May 2021 | TBD |
| Ar | Editing Contest | Wikimedians of the Levant | Wikimedia Levant Contest/Right to a healthy environment | ساندرا (talk · contribs) | 20 April 2021 to 02 May 2021 | TBD |
| en | Editathon | New England Wikimedians, and all interested in environmental health | Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: BU Earth Day 2021 | TBD | 22 April 2021 | BU Earth Day 2021 |
| sv | Editing days | Swedish Wikipedia | Wikipedia:WikiForHumanRights | Ainali | 15 April to 15 May 2021 | TBD |
| it | Edit-a-thon days | Italian Wikipedia | Progetto:WikiDonne/WikiForHumanRights 2021 | Camelia.boban (talk · contribs) | 15 April to 15 May 2021 | WDG - WikiForHumanRights 2021 |
To add your item to the list add a row to this table with Visual Editor.
