Someone should ping Kevin Gorman on this, I believe he knows of some
research. Does anyone know about his health? Is he able to respond?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com
wrote:
I agree with Christine. There is good work being done as learning has
taken
I haven't heard from him in a couple weeks but last I checked he was busy
recovering. I've poked him in case he didn't see this email.
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From: Neotarf neot...@gmail.com
Date:03/28/2015 1:55 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Addressing
I agree with Christine. There is good work being done as learning has taken
place about the strengths and weaknesses of edit-a-thons.
Because it has been know for a few years that one off edit-a-thons create
content but don't grow new users, now many people have been experimenting
with different
Certainly my own experience with edit training and edit-a-thons is that,
while people (both male and female) seem to enjoy the workshop, they don't
come back for more. I increasingly share the view that Wikipedians are born
not made. I am not sure that outreach achieves very much, given it is very
Kerry and all,
I've been thinking about much of what you wrote. Being in this list has
made me think about how to recruit and retain more female editors. I
attended Emily's training about how to conduct workshops and edit-athons in
Washington, D.C. last fall, which was a very valuable
