Grants talk:Project/Rapid/LDTC Wikipedians/Language Page Editathons 2018

Community involvement

w:en:Wikipedia:LDTC Wikipedians was created less than 4 days ago and shows no involvement whatsoever with the English Wikipedia community. The users mentioned as experienced contributors seem to have around 100 edits in total, do I see right? --Nemo 12:05, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback. We have been contributing to Wikipedia independently and only recently created this group. The "experienced" users have taken a Wikiedu course, so they have the proper training, though it's true, "experienced" is a relative term. BlakeALee (talk) 22:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Outputs

It's not clear what is going to be done. Do you want to expand the existing articles linked from e.g. w:en:List of ISO 639-2 codes? With what information according to what sources? What is your competitive advantage in handling that content? The page states «graduate students from the Department of Linguistics are paired with speakers of under-documented languages», which is nice; I'd suggest "using" them to translate MediaWiki into their language on translatewiki:, it's going to be much more rewarding. Nemo 12:05, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback. We want to give our editors some freedom to pursue their own interests regarding which pages they want to work on. An example would be a page like Manado Malay which has been marked as needing citations, and which has published resources available at our university library. Based on past turnouts, we expect more linguistics students than minority language speakers to attend the editathons. We will definitely encourage our minority language speakers to do wiki article translations! BlakeALee (talk) 23:18, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Comments upon Approval

Hello BlakeALee, we’re really excited about your plan for a series of editathons and look forward to supporting your work. We also wanted to offer a couple of suggestions:

• In your activities section you suggested hosting the editathon in a coffee shop. It has been our experience that running an editathon for 10+ people in a coffee shop is rather difficult. So we would like to encourage you to consider the alternative location more strongly.
• In resources you mentioned you will be making custom button giveaways. Would it be helpful if we sent you Wikipedia buttons? Please look at the requesting swag page for more information and let us know.

Lastly, through communication with the WMF staff we understand you are a newer but enthusiastic group and we are excited to support your work on languages. I will go ahead and approve this rapid grant. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 17:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for approving us and for your feedback!

• We have reserved a group meeting room which comfortably seats 20 at the coffee shop for the first editathon; if we can't reserve it for the other events, we'll find somewhere else.
• Thanks for informing me what wiki swag is available. Sounds great; I'll put an order in!BlakeALee (talk) 03:11, 5 December 2017 (UTC)