Wikipedia Asian Month 2017/Position Description

Rough total hours: 700 hours; This page is intended to describe the appox. time to run a basic structure of the Wikipedia Asian Month. The work hours listed here is only a reference, which could be more or less in the actually practise.

Project Manager

Minimum voluntary hours

60-70 hours/ month

• Supervising other team member's work (0.5-1 hour/day)
  • Connecting the resource with member
  • Assisting members when needed, especially in larger/major problems
  • Make sure the entire project running smoothly
• Event development (10 hours total)
  • Develop many events that can be held in different communities, rules and reward
  • Postcard Design, event page design
• Check progress in each community (0.5 hour/day)
  • Make sure all communities has finished the translation of the event page in time, and providing assistance
  • Locating more local organizers to make sure each community is not rely on one person
• Website management (0.5 hour/day)
  • Routine maintenance
  • Keep the website update
• Communication (1 hour/day)
  • Maintain the mailing list, task management tool
  • Make sure problems are properly assigned or solved

Outreach Manager

Minimum voluntary hours

30-50 hours/ month

• Contacting Wikimedia communities from all kinds of ways, especially smaller communities. Looking for potential WAM activities. (0.5 hour/day in September and November, 1 hour/day in October)
  • Leave message on active admin/editors talk page
  • Find introducer who knows the community
  • Design WAM activities for each community (Main event, offline event, training camp etc)
  • Reporting the actions and progress
  • Assisting the grant application for local communities if needed (extra 0.5-1 hour/ application)
• Outreach to institutions, colleges and enterprises for potential cooperation (1 hour/week in September and October, 0.5 hour/week in November)
  • Photo exhibition (Photos from all kinds of photo events in Asia, not just WAM events)
  • Cooperation with local communities (editing event etc)
  • Sponsorship (souvenir, marketing assistance etc)
  • Reporting the actions and progress
• Meeting and other work (1 hours/week)

Media Manager

Minimum voluntary hours

around 50-60 hours/ month

• Keeping the twitter, facebook page updated every day from October to November, and every week in September, December, January, February. (1 hour/day)
  • Posting event information, rules update, fun moment, interesting articles and good pictures.
  • Reposting other account's post that related with Wikipedia Asian Month
• Publicity (1 hour/day in October and November, 2-4 hours/week in September and December)
  • Write a formal media release at before, beginning and end of the WAM
  • Contact media platform at all kinds to spread the information about the Wikipedia Asian Month
  • Assisting any media demand from the local communities
  • Interviewing some local organizers and active contributors in the event
• Reporting, communication, and meeting (2 hours/ week)

Community Manager

Minimum voluntary hours

50-70 hours/month

• Monitoring WAM communities (0.5 hour/day in October and November, 1.5 hours/day in November)
  • Watchlist all event and talk pages of in all WAM communities, answer question if not being answered by local organizers in 3 days if possible (can understand the question by translation)
  • Answering questions posted to the international team (meta, mail, chat)
• Send update (1.5 hours/week)
  • Update the Q&A page for latest information
  • Send updates of the WAM to organizers (by MassMessage, or by talk page)
• Provide Assistance (1-2 hours/day)
  • Help the organizers and participants to solve the problem/question with other team members
  • Judging articles that are not judged after 5th December, if local organizers do not finish it.