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Create an event page
editI need to make an event page, for a contest or something else.
Six-account limit
editYou'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.
Make it easy to identify student editors
editStudent contributions are being reverted or deleted, or student accounts have been blocked.
Icebreaker
editYou want to make the people attending your event relaxed, excited, and ready to work together.
Suggestions on how to complete a scholarship form for Wikimania
editSome people write a lot in their forms but they sometime miss their personal contribution
A concise compendium to catastrophic conference calls
editA 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.
Preparation for Wikimania
editThe pattern aims at providing future Wikimania participants with tips on how to prepare for the conference.
A playful logo builds identity and invites interaction
editSpaces on Wikipedia can sometimes be intimidating to newcomers who are afraid to jump in.
How to make editathons for new users more successful
editEditing Wikipedia is not easy for new comers, and they are embarrassed when they realized actual Wikipedia-editing is different from what they thought.
Setting-up a conference registration form
editThis pattern is an outcome of organising Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 and observing other conferences registration process.
How to manage a Wikipedia awareness Video
edit{{Evaluation/Resource/Summary | time= 30 January 2019 | title = How to manage a Wikipedia awareness Video | title link= Learning patterns/How to manage a Wikipedia awareness Video | summary= This learning pattern gives pointers for do's and don'ts for Animation or 3D Motion graphics video ad or promotional movie. | creator= User:Wikilover90 | image = [[File:Punjabi Wikipedia Tales - A Trip To Lahore!.webm }}
When things go wrong, just tell people
editEverything has gone horribly wrong! Panic! Don't tell anyone, and maybe the problem will go away!
A fine selection of mistakes for organizing an international conference (and how to make sure you commit them)
editA short guide to bad projects
editMake volunteers provide activity report before reimbursing them
editVolunteers 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.
Wikiblitz
editEdit-a-thons can become training events, without accomplishing much.
Writing a production schedule of event
editTo run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
Number of images or media used in Wikimedia projects
editMedia contributions are most valuable when they are integrated into Wikimedia projects.
Calculating global metrics
editYou need to measure your project's output according to the global metrics specified by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Tracking an online campaign
editIt is difficult to track new user registrations that come from a specific event or online campaign.
Tracking user contributions by chapter
editDifficulties in tracking user contributions by chapter.
Framing survey questions
editIf people misunderstand your survey questions, they may not answer them the way you intended.
Cookies by the exit
editPost-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.
Feedback cycle
editEven 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.
How to avoid abandoning the course when your students have intellectual or mental disabilities
editPsiquiatric patients tend to abandon the editing course and you may feel frustrated.
Creation of an editing workshop or course with patients in an institution.
editYou want to coordinate an editing workshop or course with patients at an institution.The project may be delayed due to possible interferences.
Wikimedia young projects in therapy settings with psychiatric patients.
editThis is intended for small projects that need to grow and need to attract new users.
How to choose patients for an editing teaching course
editYou need to select mental patients for your course.
Supporting volunteers in administration
editGroups 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.
Clarity of expectations when setting up a partnership
editClear 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.
How to survive to an international edit-a-thon when you're the only coordinator
editSince 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?
Developing a fully internationalized and centralized gadget
editHow to fully centralize and internationalize a gadget
Wikidata mass imports
editYou have a large corpus of data that you want to migrate to Wikidata, and you want to do it right.
Storytelling for grant reports and proposals: tricks of the trade
editGood proposals and reports are more than sheer facts and numbers, they tell stories which make people understand what's great about your work.
Volunteers versus journalists: the evergreen questions
editMany wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Book swapping table at your event
editPaper books are endangered, these days!
Firm foundation for projects
editProjects 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.
Wikimedian in Residence Support Group
editWikimedians in residence working in isolation, with no standardised support
Teaching new editors about copyright
editStudents or workshop participants are making copyright violations.
Expert involvement
editYou don't have all the skills or knowledge needed to accomplish your project alone.
Finding programmers for a WMF grant
editYou need developers to work on a Wikimedia grant proposal
Reducing the north–south divide
editThere is a giant gap between countries of the global south and those of the north when it comes to producing south-related free content.
Turning geeks to Wikipedians
editGeeks are the people who are obsessed with specific interest and are potentially very good wikipedians. What makes them excited in volunteering for wikipedia.
Public policy work: How to have an effective meeting
editVolunteer Wikimedians sometimes don't manage to get their message across or the leave the best possible impression at meetings with decision-makers.
©©-Change your mind - a fun workshop for open licenses
editKeeping communities engaged
editWikimedia has communities of supporters who are not necessarily of the work carried out by organisations they support.
Communities of Interest to Recruit Volunteers
editFinding new volunteers who understand the fun in Wikipedia Editing and can involve in movement is not an easy task.
Effectively using the pre-event period
editIn 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.
Advanced workshop with focused and dedicated participants
editIn several workshops you may find mixed audience, which is actually a hindrance towards conducting an advanced-level workshop smoothly.
Understanding the shared goals of an external organisation and Wikimedia
editMaking the Digital Library of India really useful
editDigital 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.
How to write a thousand articles about your country without getting tired (workshops)
editSeveral 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!
Mass messaging
editHow to get notices out to as many potential editors as possible
Spread cuteness
editIt is difficult to start a conversation with strangers during large conferences.
How to involve cultural partner as active GLAM participants
editCultural 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?
Division of tasks and responsibilities between board, staff and volunteers
editWhen Wikimedia chapters decide to hire staff, the question arises who is responsible for what. Unclarity can lead to problems, frustration and conflicts.
Wikidata verification-pages tool
editHow do we get all democratic political data into Wikidata?
Git repository for software
editDealing with multiple versions of software or components of it can easily become messy
Harvesting new Wikimedians from social media
editEnsuring your wiki project is inclusive
editIssues of race, gender, and sexuality representation among Wikipedia editors
Disengaging from Wikipedia warfare
editYou 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.
Make use of mistakes on Wikipedia
editSome 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.
Use tags to count and track edits
editA Short Guide to Using Twitter for In-event Engagement
editUsing Twitter for your chapter or affiliate's social media outreach?
New users are afraid of doing something wrong
editAn editor is reluctant to contribute because they are unsure whether their idea is helpful or not.
Training senior citizens
editSenior 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 new articles
editCreating a new biographical article is very intimidating for new editors.
Capturing User names at workshops
editWith 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.
Photographic evidence
editWords can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.
Posters that work
editPosters are meant to be glanced at, pointed at, and talked about—not read like a book.
How to prepare an infographics
editInfographics 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.
Writing a new MediaWiki extension for deployment on a Wikimedia project
editYou want to improve the software that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Working with developers who are not Wikimedians
editCoordinating developers who are not Wikimedians
Wikiblabla (confusing Wikimedia lexicon)
editThe Wikimedia movement has a large variety of assonant terms which mean different things but they are confusing and mysterious for the majority of humankind.
Child room
editTaking care of children while attending a conference is difficult.
Lightning talks
editDuring conferences, it may not be possible to provide stage-time to all participants who want to talk.
Volunteers versus journalists: top-of-mind considerations
editMany wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Vote Matching Tool (Digital-o-Mat)
editDigital policy is insufficiently represented in the German election campaigns and discussions.
Using expense-tracking software
editMany 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.
Digitizing archival records
editYou are digitizing records from an archives to upload to Wikimedia Commons
Workshop size
editMany editing events are way too big and are less effective because of this.
Repeat events
editNewbies attending edit-a-thons are not motivated by a single event. They do not sustain their interest levels if they are not motivated further.
Number of active editors involved
editEngaging and retaining productive Wikimedia contributors is as important as recruiting new ones.
International events? Allow three months for visa formalities
editIf 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.
Arranging travel
editCentering Marginalised Knowledge
editThe 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?
Organizing "Wiki Loves" campaigns
editOften people come up with "Wiki Loves" initiatives and face problems regarding planning, and understanding the scope and potential of the campaign.
Achievable goals
editEven 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.
How to measure from a gender perspective
editWikipedia 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 .
How to create or edit an article in terms of gender approach
editWikipedia faces the challenge of approaching properly the gender gap issue in terms of its content.
Wikimedia events and Instructional design
editHow to make Wikimedia events instructionally guided
How might folks stay engaged?
editMany 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
Find free license videos on YouTube for Wikipedia
editPublishers on YouTube have the option of publishing their material under a CreativeCommons-Attribution 2.0 license.
IRL video broadcast is a winning horse. Can Wikimedia projects bet on it?
editWith 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.
Uploading video materials to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia
editVideo is still relatively rare in articles on Wikipedia. It could potentially enrich the encyclopedia and make it more attractive to younger audiences.
Uploading videos to Wikimedia Commons
editYou want to upload videos to Wikimedia Commons
Quiet room
editSome conference participants need rest, sleep or personal time.
How to write communications materials with a balanced portrayal of women and men
editWhen 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.
Como ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres en nuestras comunicaciones.
editAl 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.
Do not overload
editDuring outreach events, there is a tendency that the mentor gives too much information to the newbies. This makes newbies overwhelmed.
Grant reporting for volunteers. Part 2: Financial report
editTips about preparing grant' financial reports from the perspective of user groups or individuals.
Grant reporting for volunteers. Part 1: Report of project activities
editTips about preparing the report of project activities from the perspective of user groups or individuals
Promoting the work of students as part of Wikiedu programs on social media platforms
editPlan an education program pilot
editYou 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.
MediaWiki Education Program
editFor the students who can code but don't possess writing skills
Wikipedian KulTour – the little sister of GLAM on Tour
editDocumenting your event experience
editAttending an event can be overwhelming, and it is easy to forget what you did, who you talked to and what sessions you attended.
Checking bias and prejudice in grants advisory processes
editI attended a training session held at Wikimania for members of grants advisors/ adjudicators
Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit
editRecruiting advisors, course creators & writers, collaborators for a diversity and inclusion project.
Let the community know
editYou have an awesome idea for a project or activity, but it will only succeed if enough of the right people participate.
5 articles game
editUnderstanding Wikipedia, Wikimedia and their communities is challenging. We can start building understanding by having anyone writing 5 articles for Wikipedia.
Using the Programs & Events Dashboard for Reporting
editThe Program & Events Dashboard is a valuable reporting tool, but implementation is sometimes inconsistent when working with a large number of organizers or events.
Be flexible and work with the audience you have
editNuances in a new program deviated from expectations during the workshop and our plan for it
Using 'Share a fact' to engage social media followers of small Wikipedias
editMatching newcomers to Wikimedia projects and activities: nurturing happy, passionate editors:)
editYou've attracted newbies to your program or event but you don't know how to motivate them to stay as editors.
Wall of compliments
editMany people are not admired and encouraged adequately for their successes at workshops and conferences.
Conference workshop to help kickstart a project on a smaller language Wikipedia
editHow can you learn from other’s who have experience in doing a project you are about to start (and know almost nothing about)?
Collaborated with Government organisations, What's next?
editManaging the resources from large content donors are often difficult.
Colored lanyards
editIt is hard to know the photography preferences of the participants at conferences.
First edit
editA brand new user has no idea on where to start editing, and might start with something that is very hard.
Go the extra mile, and then search for treasure
editTechnical innovation, in a popular area
Let the media know
editYou planned an awesome event or activity, but too few people showed up, or no one found out about the awesomeness afterwards.
Filling content gaps
editThe pattern presents several ways filling content gaps on Wikipedia.
How to make a multi-day editathon?
editUse Wikimedia content to assist teaching Wikipedia
editSometimes what we are trying to teach does not get the attention it should to have a result.
Engage with public broadcasters
editPublic Broadcasters and the Wikimedia movement to a large degree exist with the same purpose in mind: educating and informing. How can they collaborate?
Mode of training
editMost 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.
What to do when airplane lets you down
editThis Learning Pattern provides pointers on what to do when your plane is delayed or cancelled on your way to a Wikip/media event.
Watchlist invites
editYou are running an event and you want to invite Wikimedians.
The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly
editThe 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.
Conference venues
editAllow audience to browse multiple threads of interest in a physical conference?
Safe space policy
editSome people do not feel welcome at events because of previously having a hostile encounter at a similar event.
Planning effective conference sessions
editConference sessions are often planned at the last minute with little consideration for goals, expected outcomes, audience preparation, or follow-up.
Wikipedia as a tool for astronomy education and outreach
editWikipedia 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.
Uploading files using Pattypan
editHow to successfully prepare and process batch upload using the tool Pattypan
How not to organize a conference
editYou're organizing a conference, and you think everything is too easy. That's no fun, right?
Data transfers to Wikimedia Commons: Sharing institutional archives
edit"WikTungi"-city based community group
editBringing Wikipedians at a common place regularly.
GLAM on Tour - connecting Wikipedians and cultural institutions on the local level
editHow to get diverse presenters at your conference (from a gender, Global South... perspective)
editGender 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.
Hiring an ED in your organisation
editOffering best practices on how to go about hiring an ED for your organisation and what you should look out for.
Creating Guided Tours together with the Community
editNew 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.
You are teaching, but are they learning?
editHow can you tell if students or workshop participants understand and are using skills you have taught them?
Afterparty
editPeople like to have some time to socialize with one another after a long day of events.
Social media
editYou run a social media account, but how do you maximize its effectiveness?
Project roles
editWithout assigned roles, sometimes important tasks don't get done.
Build trust to know what sort of challenges are coming up for the partner organisation
editIt can be hard to anticipate challenges experienced by a partner organisation. Those unplanned barriers can throw up barriers to the success of the project.
Securing project visibility and success by having a showcase early on
editHaving 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.
Need to establish the digital skills level of the partner organisation
editThe 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.
Board handbook − a shared vision of the board role in an evolving organisation
editBoard roles
editTo 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 page starts off unwatched
editEvery new wiki page, starts with 1 watchlister (the author). It is hard to attract collaboration at an unknown destination.
Promote photo contests
editPromote photo contests and events to reach new users.
Digitising books with minimal apparatus
editDigitising books and archives often requires expensive scanning apparatus not available everywhere. This pattern provides alternate methods.
Digital information literacy with Wikipedia for public library staff
editHow can you use Wikipedia in libraries to facilitate digital information literacies?
Meeting the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia with online training
editPublic 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?
Reach and engage your community
edit“It’s always the same few people doing things”: the core community of Wikimedians engaged in group activities or organizing events stays rather constant.
Bytes added to or removed from Wikimedia projects
editThe amount of content that a project has contributed to a Wikimedia project can be hard to measure.
Cooperative note-taking at meetings and workshops
editNobody likes note-taking for the rest.
Five tips for preparing a great conference
editConferences can be effective tools for solving problems; but they usually have little real impact.
Learning question
editDid your work increase the motivation of contributors? How do you know?
Creating portals
editThe pattern explains the process of creating portals on Wikipedia.
Mix newcomers and veterans
editNewcomers at editing events may be afraid of 'breaking' Wikipedia, or getting in trouble for editing.
Reporting Criteria
editA short guide to in-kind donations
editFinding sponsors for Wikimedia projects
Collecting usernames for in-person events
editWhen collecting usernames for in-person events for data analysis on Wikimetrics, it can be tricky to gather all of the participants' usernames.
Categories
editBest practices in training adults
editWe 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..
Article assessment for student assignments
editFor 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.
Tips for reading project codes from pageviews data files
editThe pageviews data files use their own project codes with several formats.
Audience response system
editDuring conferences, it is good to conduct a poll to know what the participants are thinking.
Using open licenses
editProducing free knowledge outside the Wikimedia projects in a word of all rights reserved.
Country editor base survey of South Africa 2015
editIt is often impossible or very difficult to know the community that a country wide chapter is founded to support.
Timing and tenaciousness - How to ensure high participation rates at post-conference surveys
editTrack Wikipedia "Knowledge Leafage" of each trainee
editEducation programs should evaluate trainees, trainers, methods and education program itself, or they are not acceptable education, nor can evolve.
Imagery for event promotion
editAccurately 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.
Using social media to promote endangered, indigenous and other marginalized languages
editUsing Wikidata on Wikipedia infoboxes
editHow can I enable Wikidata for an infobox on my language's Wikipedia without writing all the Lua scripts from scratch?
Number of women participating
editCollecting data with personal information
editIt is very important to collect and store personal information carefully.
Business cards and email adresses for volunteers
editWorking with cultural institutions to upload archival photographs
editYou want to improve coverage of historic topics
Partnering with a government agency
editYou identify a government agency (at any level) with high-quality content that would benefit the Wikimedia projects.
Frugal video production for Wikimedia Commons
editHow to effectively produce videos and upload them on Wikimedia Commons with low bandwidth
Charts on wiki pages
editHow do you create editable charts and graphs on Wiki pages?
Cross chapter collaboration on wiki writing contest
editHow can two chapters organize parallel on wiki writing contest about each other’s countries in order to build a closer relationship between two chapters?
Conducting expeditions
editThe pattern aims at providing organisers of expeditions with detailed guidelines for efficient conducting of expeditions.
Find volunteers to support a program
editYou need volunteers to support a program online or offline.
Project
editCommunity impact
editYou worked hard on a project you believe in, but no one seemed interested in what you made or wants to carry your work forward.
Qualtrics survey tool
editYou want to run a survey for your project. Free online survey tools usually only provide limited functionality, and better tools usually cost money.
How to prepare and plan for Online Edit-a-thons
editWhile 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.
Designing portals on wikis
editYou want to organize information in the form of a portal
How to avoid duplicated items during a museum based photography event
editSometimes 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.
Using Aggregate Groups to group pages for translation
editWhen a resource you created has multiple wiki pages, and you use a navigation bar, contributing translations can become hard.
Bringing women together to work towards gender and linguistic inclusiveness
editLow 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 .
Learning from patterns
editWe need to make it easier for people to capture and share what they learn when they perform mission-aligned activities.
Searching the Learning Patterns Library
editHow can someone find patterns in the Learning Patterns Library that are relevant to his or her project?
Writing durable documentation
editHow to run software on a dedicated Wikimedia Cloud VPS server
editSome services requires customized operating system environments or extensive computational resources beyond what is available in the toolforge environment.
Strategic planning retreat
editThe 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.
How to do photowalks more effectively
edit如何用360環景攝影機紀錄學術會議
edit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?
Towards a Successful GLAM Partnership
editCoding da Vinci - the culture hackathon
editWikiverse World Café - getting to know Wikimedia projects and volunteers
editPaying for an open license for academic research related to wiki
edit¿Cómo hacer que los docentes se apropien de los proyectos de Wikimedia y los apliquen en el aula?
editContest prizes that motivate
editOffer prizes that contest participants want to win.
Organize childcare during a Wikimedia event
editMore and more members of the community are parents
Qué canales podemos usar para hacer comunicación externa
editLa importancia de los talleres previos a las editatones
editTiming, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa
editInviting 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.
Documentation Friday
editYou want to get into the habit of writing documentation on a regular basis
Learn in detail about existing tools before building new ones
editYou need to write a new technical tool and there are already similar but unsuitable tools in existence.
Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference sessions
editInternational travel
editHow can someone arrange safe and cost-effective international travel?
How to design and develop an education hackathon within the Wikipedia Education Program
editWorkshops 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.
How to generate a stronger and more relevant relationship with the schools
editActivities 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.
How to transfer the knowledge and the experience of an Education Program
editTransferring 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.
Presenting wiki at an academic conference
editHow can Wikimedia contributors do outreach at a non-wiki academic conference?
Producing video oral histories about Wikimedia participants
editWikimedia project participants need a way to document what they do and why they do it.
Recruiting high school participants
editReaching out to high schools and generating interest.
Request brochures or other materials from WMF
editYou want to bring brochures, training guides or other materials to an event, but you don't have any yourself.
Setting goals for an education program
editHow do you know if your education program is successful?
Short reports go a long way
editIt can be hard to write a good report on complex projects in which multiple people are responsible for individual activities.
Step by step guide for finding the right venue for a conference
editStrategies to achieve editing contest goals
editYou set great contest goals, now all you need is strategies to achieve them!
Survey legal practices around the world
editLegal practices for surveys differ around the world
The pre-jury as a tool for community engagement
editYou 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?
Training educators how to use Wikimedia in the classroom
editWhat do educators need to learn before using Wikimedia in course.
Treasures or landmines: detecting uncategorized, language-specific uploads in Commons
editInexperienced users often upload to Commons uncategorized, poorly described and then abandoned stuff, which remains invisible and unutilized for ages.
Understand local volunteers' characteristics and behavior to develop an effective program
editSome programs were not tailored to the local volunteers' needs and wants and became ineffective.
Use advanced site notice to promote events
editA low-cost solution to effectively promote an event to all readers on your Wikipedia
Using CentralNotice banners for surveys
editUsing Wikipedia's gaps as feminist teaching tools
editThere 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?
Using the education extension
editAs an education program leader, how do you manage course pages, facilitate community engagement with students, monitor user contributions and evaluate your program?
WLX jury benefitting from the wisdom of the Commons crowd
editImagine the awkward situation when after announcing the winners in a contest for encyclopedic photography, fake photomontage images are detected among the winners. Ooops!
When staff work with volunteers
editVolunteers and staff don't always work together effectively
Wiki MOOC
editWhich scalable solution can we use to teach new contributors how to contribute to Wikimedia project?
Focus on content
editGender identity
editGet the community involved early
editWhat can you do to plan for success when teaching students to contribute to Wikimedia?
Help new editors learn Wikimarkup
editNew editors or students are making many mistakes with Wiki markup.
Help students and educators understand community rules and norms
editStudent and educator user pages, articles, edits or content are being deleted.
Hiring a metrics processor for a Wikimedia outreach project
editThe 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.
How to access to lists of cultural heritage sites or monuments.
editYou want to organize a Wiki Loves Monuments contest, but it is difficult to obtain documentation of cultural heritage sites.
How to use the global metrics magic button
editIdentifying content gaps
editIllustrating Wikimedia related publications and blog posts
editImprove photo quality with better cameras
editYour community has good photographers, but they need better equipment.
Increase number of photos in use
editStrategies to achieve goals to integrate photos from projects and contests into Wiki projects.
Keeping nonprofit organization insurance
editMany nonprofit organizations keep insurance as a way to manage the liability they assume as an organization.
Making a centralized resource space specific to your GLAM
editProviding the best resources for your institution to learn about Wikipedia
Monitor student contributions
editYou want to check student contributions for errors or monitor their progress on an education program assignment.
Motivating students to contribute to Wikimedia projects
editHow do you get students interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects as part of a course?
Number of articles created or improved in Wikimedia projects
editEdits, files, and bytes contributed and other metrics may not totally represent the significance of content contributions that involve creating or improving many pages.
Number of individuals involved
editIt is easier to demonstrate impact if you can show who participated, or benefited, from your work.
Number of newly registered users
editYou need to represent the potential impact of your outreach project on the growth of the Wikimedia movement.
Organising a Wiki Takes...
editPartnerships with ministries of education
editYou do not know if you need to work with the Ministry of Education in your region.
Photographing your local buildings
editPlan a Wiki expedition
editHow to plan an enjoyable and effective Wiki expedition.
Plan aerial photography projects
editHow to plan an aerial photography project.
Annual Wikimedia CEE meeting: drafting the programme
editDrafting 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.
Automobile travel
editHow can safe and cost-effective automobile travel to events be arranged?
Choosing an education program model
editYou want to start an education program, but you are not sure what kind of educators and students you should work with.
Community check-up: when online and offline communication becomes effective
edit{{Evaluation/Resource/Summary | time= 21 June 2017 | title = Community check-up: when online and offline communication becomes effective | title link= Learning patterns/Community check-up: when online and offline communication becomes effective | summary= For a project as diffused as the [[:wmph:Philippine Cultural Heritage Mapping | creator= User:Sky Harbor | image = File:WMPH Cultural heritage mapping project logo 1.png }}
Conducting a semi-structured interview
editDo 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?
Contests, giveaways and sweepstakes
editSweepstakes, contests, and giveaways have strict legal requirements
Counting featured, quality and valued content in Commons
editIn 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.
Create a community policy for education programs
editThe community is having frequent problems with students or new editors.
Don't fiddle with the AV
editSometimes, the audio-visual apparatus fails to work and the participants spend a lot of time to make it working.
Edit-a-thon worklists
editYou host an edit-a-thon and no one knows what to work on.
Edit 1 and Challenge 1
editParticipation hasn't increased in the past seven years.
Facilitating social interaction at conferences
editFailing at a crowdfunding campaign and what we can learn from it
editThe crowdfunding campaign for the German Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci did not reach its financial goal.
Evaluate student work
editHow to evaluate student contributions to Wikimedia for a grade or mark.
Adapt Wiki Loves contests to prevent burnout
editHow to change Wiki Loves contests to maintain volunteer and participant interest.
Project management for edit-a-thons
editHow do you keep all your ducks in a row to organize an edit-a-thon?
Writing legal disclaimers
editThis 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.
Writing contest worklists
editI do not know if I should make a work list for an editing contest.
Writing Contest Topic Selection
editI want to pick a writing contest topic that will be popular with new or existing editors.
Working with an existing movement....
editBuilding enthusiasm, initiative and promoting a project
Working constructively with the Wikimedia community
editCommunity members are reverting student edits or deleting user pages.
Wikipedia & Medicine: Practical Details for Educators
editAre 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 ... and those getting taken
editWiki Takes ... is free content generation with some cultural and social extras.
Wikimedia organizations can use the Reports page on Meta!
editIt can be difficult to find information about the accomplishments of Wikimedia organizations for somebody not already familiar with those organizations.
Wikipedia visual museum
editThere is no organization of historical images according to year, ethnicity or other categories related to historical interpretation on Wikipedia.
Why we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016
editWhy we achieved good results in the MOOC Edition 2016?
editDuring 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.
Where to find survey data
editWikiDay
editWho should we survey?
editWhat you learn from your survey, and how you can use that knowledge, depends who you ask (and how many people respond).
What to consider when we generated audiovisual materials?
editMake 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.
WMF Open Access Policy
editWhat do you do with data from Wikimedia projects or research?
What to expect when doing a survey
editUsing structured assessment tools for development planning
editYour organization needs to grow or you are trying to work out a strategic plan but you have trouble establishing priorities for development.
Volunteer feedback and follow-up
editVolunteers are the lifeblood of every project, hence the need to retain them for future projects.
Using the general ledger and project codes to evaluate outcomes
editHow can we evaluate outcomes of particular programs as compared to their costs?
Using social media channels for editors retention
editUsing ordered response scales
editSurvey questions often ask for ordered responses, but it can be hard to think of them on the spot
Using drones for aerial photography for Commons and Wikipedia
editUsing mass message for surveys
editBanners are not the only way to reach users quickly on-wiki
Using Wikidata to make Machine Translation dictionary entries
editExpanding MT coverage with Wikipedia-relevant translations
Using QuickSurveys
editUserpage organizer
editUserpage 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.
Use work sheets for school students
editEducation uses work sheets for teaching in schools
Use of a single diagram to imprint Wikipedia basics onto newcomers
editIntroductory presentations to Wikipedia can be confusing as many new things have to be said
Use telephone calls or Skype to clarify questions early
editSome people in important positions would not read their email, miss important information, and create inconsistency and confusion.
Use social media for promotion
editUse an article nursery garden for each new editor
editNew 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.
Use cheatsheeting in the form of a collapsible toolbox
editSlow access through help for immediately needed stuff
Use course pages to organize student assignments
editHow to keep course information organized in a central, public space so educators, volunteers and the community can identify student work?
Use hidden categories to track projects
editTravelling Wikimedians report to the stay-at-homes
editHow to make the most out of Wikimedians travelling to events for the wider community and how to overcome the limitations of written reports.
Travel policy − defining travel support conditions to further volunteer involvement
editTranslation
editIt is difficult to carry out evaluation and sharing because of language barriers
Tools for managing a survey project
editManaging a survey project can be difficult
Track project hours in Google Calendar
editHow can we use Google Calendar to track of how many hours we have spent on a project?
Tracking contest submissions
editI want to know the best way to track contest submissions.
Tips for surveys in google forms
editTools for communicating what Wikipedia is about
editMost of the world doesn't know Wikipedia and what is about.
Tools are short-lived, so archive your pages
editUnlike Wikis, tools are maintained by fewer people – the platform change very quickly and tools will no longer function.
Thanking users
editUsers can spend a lot of time on surveys and get survey fatigue
Testing survey questions
editThird place for local groups
editLocal groups need a clearly identifiable meeting place to organize actions.
The teacher as producer of educational proposals with Wikimedia projects
editMany 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.
Survey legal practices in the E.U.
editSurvey qualitative analysis
editIt can be confusing how to do qualitative analysis for surveys
Sustaining dialogue with your community
editTo ensure there is a continuous conversation with the community about changes in processes by maintaining communication.
Surfacing activity
editMediaWiki pages are static, but interactive group workspaces work need to be dynamic.
Surveys at different points
editAt different points in a process you need to get different kinds of information from participants.
Support a community of photographers
editGet experienced photographers to continue to contribute quality images after photo contests have ended.
Strategies to generate interest, motivation and continuity in the digital education community
editStorytelling over demonstration in a Wikipedia outreach
editSome 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 editors through email blasts
editStaying connected to volunteer editors and potential volunteers can be a challenge, especially if there is a lapse of time between events.
Social processes within communities
editBasic 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.
Statboard
editParticipants are not motivated to contribute throughout the duration of a month-long edit-a-thon
Sharing relevant information with the Wikimedia movement
editMutual 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?
Short-distance travel
editHow can safe and short-distance travel to events be arranged?
Show statistics to GLAM partners
editYour GLAM partner wants to know how the media they have shared are being used.
Service Credit for University Students
editWe need to engage more undergraduate and graduate level students to edit Wikipedia.
Selecting winners of a large photo contest
editHaving over 10,000 submissions in a photo contest is great, but selecting winners is tricky
Set up a GitHub profile for your hack-a-thons
editYou are organizing a hack-a-thon and you want participants to share their work
Set test tasks for recruiting programmers
editRecruiting 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.
Rejuvenating a dormant Wikipedia in incubator into an active live Wikipedia
editTulu 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.
Relicensing encyclopedic work under CC license to grow Wikisource and Wikipedia
editNon availability of reliable resources in Telugu language, especially online, related to Telugu Language, Culture, Social and Political Aspects
Reimagining traditional classroom assignments
editIn 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.
Saving Wikipedia from PR, and saving PR from Wikipedia
editWe all know PR editing happens on Wikipedia. How can we reduce the amount, and impact, of it?
Recipe for a strategic plan
editSome groups, organizations, or projects want to develop longer term plans to guide them toward their long term goals
Regional action plan
editThe members, gathered in local groups, may have difficulty maintaining a group dynamic when not related to a specific action.
Recombine tiled images
editImage 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
Recruiting contest judges
editFind the right people and tools to judge a writing or photo contest.
Public contribution
editHow can we persuade the general public to contribute?
Quality content generation
editThere 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.
Qualtrics resources for surveys
editPublication policy
editRail travel
editQuick start to batch uploading in institutional partnerships
editIntroduction for beginner-level developers new to the Wikimedia sphere
Proofreading large amounts of text
editProofreading large amounts of text is a very demanding task. The process should be planned intelligently and operate in an "always learning" mode.
Prioritizing articles for improvement
editPrioritizing 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.
Privacy considerations for surveys
editSurveys are great tools for collecting data, but caution should be taken when asking people for their information
Prepare the report at the beginning of your project and update it while the project is developing.
editWhenever 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.
Problem solving for education programs
editProblems may come up when using Wikimedia in education.
Planning the overall direction of a project
editWhen 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
Plan meetings around document creation and revision
editWhen 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.
Planning existing structures for ease of future access
editTo reduce the amount of future transition issues while a Project is currently being built
Planning a course or program where students will contribute to Wikimedia projects
editHow to plan a course, camp, workshop or other multi-session program that will teach students how to contribute to WIkimedia projects.
Photo training sessions
editHelp beginners to rejoin the volunteer photographers community
Peer support for new editors
editNew editors who are just learning to use Wikipedia benefit from a collaborative environment.
Overview of survey legal practices
editSurveys involve data, which may involve laws
Pedagogical scenario implementation
editCo-animate training on free licensing and on co-construction of knowledge through the Wikimedia projects to high school students.
Partnerships for contests
editYou are planning an event and want to work with another organization to provide prizes, promotion or support from subject experts.
Organising a photowalk for Wikimedia projects
editSteps to follow while organising a photowalk for Wikimedia Commons.
Orienatation of students for WEP
editWhile it is important for students to be integrated into Wikimedia movement, a generic orientation programme does not serve the purpose.
Orientation for WEP
editOrientation programme for WEP activity usually involves a large crowd of 150-200 students.
Outreach to educators
editYou want to start an education program and are not sure how to find educators to collaborate with.
OER creation using Wikibooks
editOER creation using Wikibooks. Creation of free content textbook using Wikibooks
Networking with outside experts to improve your project
editYou have a project idea that you believe is powerful but you don't have all the skills to make it real.
New faces for Wikimania: travel scholarships as prizes for Wiki contests
editMany affiliates send volunteers to Wikimania. But can we ensure - espcially in smaller communities - that we don't only sent the same people every year.
Multiple project events
editIf you dealing with small human capacities so you want to address several different target groups at once.
Measuring a WikiProject's community and activity
editYou 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.
Monitoring publicity for an event
editHow can we facilitate a range of people contributing to publicity for an event and monitor their effectiveness?
Monthly reports
editIt can be difficult for all-volunteer organizations to create an annual report each year at the time it is expected.
Managing the tech-pool
editMany affiliates, one language community
editWikimedia affiliates addressing the same language community can lead to internal and external nebulosity and confusion.
Meals during conferences
editManage disputes
editYou want to resolve a disagreement between a student or educator and a Wikimedia community member.
Materials in their own language
editTo get the most out of an event, people need to understand what they hear and what they read.
Making panel discussions (or roundtables) more productive
editOften during panel and round table discussions, there is a lot of discussion that essentially becomes pointless and/or directionless.
Making sure that the participants actually come to an event
editOften, 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.
Making an annual financial report
editWikimedia organizations, and sometimes other organizations and individuals responsible to the movement, need a way to show what they spent and received during the year.
Making translation classes more interactive via Wikipedia
editWikipedia 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.
Making an annual report
editGroups, organizations, and project leaders may find it difficult to summarize an entire year's worth of work in an annual report.
Leverage WMF relationship with Wikipedia Zero partners
editIt is sometimes hard to get local sponsors or partners to support one's activities and projects
Link to relevant learning patterns in proposals and reports
editI need to connect proposal and report reviewers to relevant learning patterns.
Local standards of notability
editNew articles written by students or educators are being deleted.
Learning pattern needed
editYou come across an idea or concept that doesn't have a learning pattern
Lead a lobbying operation
editHow do we go about lobbying in competition with an enormous lobby?
Keeping documentation of discussions with team
editIn 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.
Keeping in touch with volunteers
editThere is a lack of a framework for supporting the volunteers and enabling mutual information sharing and collaboration.
Involving communities in your survey
editInvolving the community in developing a chapter workplan
editChapter workplans are developed by a small group and may not be representative of what is really needed
Is an online survey the right choice?
editIs an online survey the right choice to solve a problem?
Increasing editor retention
editIncrease editor retention after a project or program ends.
Informal venue
editYou have a limited budget and want to host your event in a public place.
Improve photo contest results
editHow to improve quality, increase user retention or reach more participants through photo contests and events.
Improve the quality of articles written by new editors
editArticles written by students or new editors can be low quality.
Improving your building photography
editIdentifying articles for translation
editTranslation 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.
How to write an agreement with a GLAM or institution
editSometimes you need or you are asked to write an agreement with a GLAM or another institution to partner with it on the Wikimedia projects.
How to write a job description
editYou 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.
How to use active listening
editIt can be easy to dive into arguments with out truly listening to each other
How to talk to educators about using Wikimedia in the classroom
editYou don't know what the best messages and strategies are to speak to an educator about using Wikimedia in the classroom.
How to write a staffing plan
editYou need to have good practices in place before you take on the responsibility of paid staff or contractors.
How to podcast
editHow to make the most out of WMF site visits
editWMF 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 set the number of images in an article and preserve the quality
editHow to teach primary students how to position their own pictures to improve Wikipedia articles.
How to start a Wiki Loves contest
editYou want to organize Wiki Love Monuments or Wiki Loves Earth for the first time.
How to improve the knowledge of your local culture in other Wikipedias
editWikipedia face the challenge of including articles that refer as much cultures as possible, properly.
How to introduce a new target group to free knowledge and open source
editReaching 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.
How to make an Educational Editathon without a good Internet's connectivity
editIn 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.
How to implement quality management in your organization or team
editThe 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.
How to generate new editors in onsite proposals with teachers
editOften specific training are not enough for teachers to generate projects with Wikipedia in the classroom with good results.
How to generate engagement with students to become a Wikiambassador
editEducation 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.
How to generate publicity and foster collaboration: Organizing an event series
editHow to apply for a Simple Annual Plan Grant
editEffective organizations and groups need funding for program expenses and operating expenses, but aren't able to undergo the rigorous FDC process.
How to create a campaign on Commons
editA 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.
How to campaign on a political issue
editSometimes government and governmental bodies will propose policy and legislation that will have negative impact on the Wikimedia projects and free and open knowledge.
How to conduct interviews with your project partners
editStorytelling about the work of your organization / group
How to build a core community from scratch using the local network of libraries
editThe Wikimedia movement is lacking new contributors, how can we solve the challenge of finding new users
How User Groups can select Wikimedia Conference Delegates
editThis pattern is intended to help User Groups in selecting appropriate delegates for Wikimedia Conference.
Hosting a multi-location gender gap edit-a-thon
editTraining women to participate in Wikipedia
Help the "deletionists' victims"
editMany new but promising editors encounter that one of their articles gets marked for deletion.
Guía con criterios para evaluar artículos en un concurso
editCuando se hace un concurso online para crear artículos en Wikipedia, las evaluaciones suelen ser muy dispares y subjetivas
Guide for involving new volunteers
editSometimes 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?
Getting a sample of users
editIt is often impossible or very expensive to get information from an entire population
Getting enough sleep at multi-day events
editMulti-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.
Governance Codex
editHow to avoid typical rookie mistakes when hiring your first staff.
Get started with SMART program objectives!
editMaking good SMART program objectives is hard at first!
Following Wikipedia policies in gender gap events
editHow to better prepared the participants for the notability and verifiability guidelines during gender gap bridging events.
Forms with blank responses can be confusing!
editSometimes forms are incomplete because applicants and grantees can't answer a question that doesn't apply to them or their situation.
Fostering affinity groups
editWomen 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.
Festival advertisement
editWikimedia affiliates often face the organization of many events in a very short time.
Features requests for a software
editAfter 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 in classroom courses
editFeatured Articles are some of the most difficult to improve for new editors because the pages are already high-quality.
Facilitator's toolbox
editDuring 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.
Fear of editing
editEven with an Oxford degree, I don't feel qualified to edit.
Facilitating a productive discussion
editCommunity 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?
Extracting usernames listed on a wiki page
editYou need to extract a clean list of usernames from a wiki page
Facilitate the preparation of an FDC report
editYou do not want to lose your time in formatting the table and copy/pasting section that come from the proposal or a previous report
Event app for conferences
editIn 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.
Event planning process
editIt 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.
Evaluating project outcomes
editWriting project evaluations can be challenging if you cannot quantify what the outcomes of a project mean.
Enriching lists of monuments with coordinates
editWhen lists of moments don't have coordinates, they can't be projected onto a map
Establish strong local support
editIf you are moving around internationally, don't underestimate the need for local knowledge.
Engaging volunteers with the grants process
editMaking the process of applying for grants more appealing and attractive.
Estimating and evaluating in-kind resources
editSimple guidelines for obtaining data about in-kind resources of events
Engaging participants through critical theory
editYou want to encourage participation on Wikipedia to remediate systemic biases in Wikipedia's coverage
Engaging non-Wikipedian academic experts to identify content gaps
editNon-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
Editing leads to media literacy
editHow can you explain Wikipedia to a group of people without any Wikipedia experience by letting them write a Wikipedia article?
Edithaton evaluation form
editWhen 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.
Editing and writing contest-planning templates
editYou want to plan an editing or writing contest.
Edit-a-thon in classroom
editYou 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.
EJemplo
editDrop-in demo booth
editExpos 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.
Donations segmentation
editWe need to increase the amount of direct donations we receive every year
Designing and developing for an active, existing project
editExisting projects have strange, complicated requirements. Users can be highly resistant to change. Problems are complicated.
Developing strong relationships with donors - more than communication via banners
editDeveloping a mission statement with your community
editHow to create a meaningful mission statement that your most important stakeholders can identify with.
Developing Apertium MT for your language in Content Translation
editCreating a machine translator for your language
Define program goals and measures of success
editThe best programs focus on one or two realistic goals and have clear measures of success.
Dealing with authorities for institutional partnerships
editDesign of a proposed distance learning resource
editHow to generate a proposal for training on issues of digital culture and en:open educational resources
Delivering prizes
editI need to send a prize, mini-grant or item to someone living in a different country.
Cultivating interest among the editors during activities
editEditor retention, follow up and awareness
Data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in your Google spreadsheet
editNot many in the Wikimedia community are well aware of running queries or even using tools to acquire different kinds of data-points.
Credit authors and partners
editCreating a network of organizers
editBurn out for multi-location edit-a-thon organizers
Creating an article right away
editThe learning curve for creating articles is far too high.
Create a portal for your education program
editYou don't know how best to organize and share localized or translated training and outreach materials with students and other educators.
Coordinating with a WikiProject
editYou are designing an outreach program and would like to address the needs of the online community
Continuous engagement of New Wikimedians.
editNewbie biting is a major problem over Wikimedia movement and it reduces retention of newbie.
Contest scoring systems
editYou want to set up or improve an editing contest scoring system.
Contest bots
editI don't have enough time to score, judge and track contest submissions manually.
Conducting user experience research
editStreamlining the user experience for non-Wikipedians
Consolidate Wikipedia and Education using UNESCO's principles for education
editWikipedia is not well accepted in education
Conducting technical workshops and talks
editFind some easy ways to teach people and encourage to contribute into Wikimedia/MediaWiki
Connectivity issues
editWhat to do if you are in an activity (workshop, editathon, etc.) and there are problems with the Internet connection
Communications for surveys
editCommunicating results of your survey
editSurvey takers want to know - what will you do with their data?
Choose promising program participants
editDemand for a program may exceed the resources you have available.
Choosing to meet up virtually or in person
edit{{Evaluation/Resource/Summary | time= 20 June 2017 | title = Choosing to meet up virtually or in person | title link= Learning patterns/Choosing to meet up virtually or in person | summary= When a meeting is being scheduled, someone needs to decide if the event will take place via [[:en:teleconference | creator= User:Bgibbs (WMF) | image = File:Planeando_editatón_en_el_Museo_Soumaya.jpg }}
Cleaning the Augean stables: DIY discovery of fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff
editSmaller 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.
Bringing your students to edit-a-thons
editYou are an instructor and you want to teach your students about Wikipedia
Books from wiki pages
editHow to create a single document/book from multiple wiki pages
Birds of a feather
editIn large conferences, the participants do not get to meet people who have similar interests as they have.
Being the connector between GLAM partners and community
editHow can we connect GLAM partners and community members?
Batch categorizing users' photos in Wikimedia Commons
editSometimes, users in a photography project forget to categorize their photos as belonging or generated through the project
Asking the right questions
editYou need to make sure that you don't accidentally leave important questions out of your survey.
Appreciation of volunteer work IV: towards a culture of appreciation
editAppreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of Volunteer Work I: Give Individual Feedback
editAppreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of volunteer work II: make it tangible
editAppreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
Appreciation of volunteer work III: let others know
editAppreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
An advanced editing workshop: a social and professional get-together of new and veteran editors.
editAir travel
editA successful crowdfunding operation
editWe're trying to find new ways of financing projects
Accommodations at meetups
editHow can organizers arrange accomodations at meetups in a cost-effective way?
A short guide to the recording of high-quality audio samples for Wiktionary
editA hybrid learning curve from a Wikipedia Education Program
editIt 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.