Wikimedia Conference 2015/Pre-Conference Workshop

Evaluation and Program Design Pre-Conference

The Learning and Evaluation team offers pre-conference workshops in conjunction with the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin from May 13 to May 14, 2015. As an effort to develop evaluation capacity and program effectiveness for Wikimedia movement leaders, it is their goal to provide workshop and training options for those who will be in attendance at this year's Wikimedia Conference.

For further information check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News/Pre-conference_workshop_day_for_Wikimedia_Conference

Pre-Conference Agendɑ

May 13 (half a day)

Closed sessions; attendance with previous registration only.
The Wednesday agenda will begin at 11:30 a.m. and proceed as follows:
Introduction and overview
Presenters: Rosemary Rein, Director of Learning & Evaluation & Jaime Anstee, Evaluation Specialist
Eat and Greet (Quick Lunch)
Hopes and Fears
Facilitator: Jaime Anstee
Logic Models
Presenters: Christof Pins and Manuel Merz, WMDE.

Presentation by Christof: Logic Models - A tool for Planning and Evaluation
Data Sources, Tracking & Reporting
Presenters: Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez, Evaluation Associate
Presentation by Jaime: Data Sources - Gathering Evidence of your Program Story
Tools cafe
Presenters: Edward Galvez (Wikimetrics); Anna Koval (Education Program Extension) and Jaime Anstee (Category Metrics)
Moving Forward: review of the day and next steps.
Presenter: Jaime Anstee, Maria Cruz, Evaluation Community Coordinator
17:00 Break
19:00 Dinner
*** As most Wednesday participants have received additional hotel accommodation for the extended stay it is expected that Wednesday participants will attend the full schedule of sessions on Wednesday. Importantly, the workshop is currently full, should anyone who is preregistered not be able to attend, please let us know right away so that the slot may go to someone who can participate. ***

May 14 (full day)

Open sessions.
The agenda for Thursday includes the following options:

09:00 Eat and greet

09:30 Designing WMF Proposals and Annual Plans
Presenter: Alex Wang
10:45 Wikimetrics
Presenter: Edward Galvez
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Survey design
Presenter: Jaime Anstee
14:30 Reporting and Storytelling toolkit
Presenter: María Cruz
15:15 Program Toolkits
Presenters: Kacie Harold, Anna Koval
16:30 Key Take-aways and Next Steps
Facilitation by WMF team
17:15 Break before opening party