Wikipedia Asian Month 2016/Planning Meeting
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WAM Planning Meeting
First[edit]
- Date and Time: Saturday, September 24 at 15:00 UTC
Agenda[edit]
- Introduction
- Updates from Addis
- Plans on New User Training, and thoughts
- Outreach to other community
- Prize plan and thought
- Outreach to general public
- Wrap-up
Attendees[edit]
- Addis Wang (US / China)
- E.A. (Korea)
- Rover (Hong Kong)
- Satdeep Gill (India - Punjabi Wikimedians)
- Takashi (Wikimedians in Kansai)
- Kevin (SuperHamster) (US - Ohio Wikimedians)
- Liang-chih Shang Kuan(上官良治) (Wikimedia Taiwan)
- Reke Wang (Wikimedia Taiwan)
- Pharos (Richard) (US - Wikimedian NYC)
- Sky Harbor (Josh) (Philippines - Wikimedia Philippines)
Meeting Minutes[edit]
Original meeting minutes on Etherpad
- Introduction
- Updates from Addis
- Grants!
- Grant is approved! Waiting for money to come in to distribute.
- Plans on New User Training, and thoughts
- Different criteria to participate? Simple tasks?
- Create 1 - 2 articles?
- Add content to articles?
- Tiers contributions?
- 1 - 2 articles (barnstar?)
- 3 - 4 articles (certificate / postcard?)
- 5+ articles (button?)
- Tiers would let editors of all levels participate and feel accomplished.
- Worry: Would have lower-tier criteria cause people to contribute less than they otherwise would have?
- Play Wikipedia Adventure?
- Editathons for new-user outreach
- Different criteria to participate? Simple tasks?
- Onsite editathons
- Taiwan
- Work with university club & local community in Taiwan
- We will have our first workshop / editathon on 15 October in Taipei
- Full Day Workshop for 30 participants
- Encourage them to create their own article and achieve DYK criteria
- From help with Wikipedia Ambassador
- Follow the check list to reach DYK
- Provide pin to award the new DYK contributors
- Event page
- US
- New York City
- Editathon at the Guggenheim (event page)
- Focused on contemporary art
- Some prizes throughout the month
- Columbus (Ohio)
- Editathon at the Ohio State University
- Working with faculty focused on Asian studies
- New York City
- Korea
- Editathon for Women, discuss with female university
- Train women editors, ask them to join the WAM
- Taiwan
- Outreach to other communities
- Facebook advertisements
- Targeted ads by nation/region
- Women in Red: In November, focusing on Asian biographies
- Central Notice on wikis
- Facebook advertisements
- Prize planning and thought
- Last year: Postcards / Certificates / Buttons
- This year:
- Physical certificates
- Stickers
- Handwriting postcards (Very special feeling for the receivers)
- Write what on the postcards?
- And in what language - in your native language or in English?
- From Philippines - if know the receiver, then customized. If not, then send standardized one.
- Japan: mostly same with Philippines :-)
- Video of editors/organizers/editathons, kind of like Facebook's friend video and the Art+Feminism video
- Can we make the postcard as a "follow up" and "rock on " invitation?
- Estimation on # of award winners
- 43 award winners last year.
- Each Wikipedia has at least 1 winner
- Outreach to the general public
- Warp-up
- Next date for the meet up
- One in October
- Goals
- Last year: ~300 contributors
- This year: Let's aim for 500