Thanks for your kind words and your suggestion.
I'll post a version of this email as a draft to the blog here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog probably later today.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05
http://www.elementx.se - arbete
Skriv som ett proffs - min
Any journalists in future wanting examples of it need only read those
archives and the dispute-resolution threads that failed to deal with it
(which one of us ought to compile at some point).
An interesting idea. What would such a compilation look like? (Spoken as
someone who used to write the
Lennart,
I love the name 'Editing cottage', that is very homey! :) I may steal that
for relaxing events in the US!
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com wrote:
Two things about the name:
1) in Swedish we don't call them editathons, but
Christine, I love the idea of having names based on the topic at hand! I
also agree that the a-thon suffix implies a huge thing. I personally use
workshop to describe smaller events, if that helps.
-Emily
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm very
I'm very interested in this kind of thing, so much so that I'd like to
follow a similar model locally. I'm not sure that I live in a large enough
area to make it feasible, though. However, I think that it's a good model
to recruit and retain editors, especially women, who tend to like editing
in
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote:
Any journalists in future wanting examples of it need only read those
archives and the dispute-resolution threads that failed to deal with it
(which one of us ought to compile at some point).
An interesting idea. What would
The key comment is this: We are also considering ways to get the people
most interested in going to those editathons to also run them (empowering
them, in effect).
If edit-a-thons are to achieve scale, it's necessary that once established,
the group will continue under its own momentum. This
