Hi Alice,

That is a great example, thank you for sharing!

Greetings,
Romaine

Op do 31 jan. 2019 om 15:28 schreef Alice White <[email protected]>:

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I’ve made and used these two handouts:
>
>    - Creating a biography:
>    
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Building_a_Biography_-_simplified.pdf&page=2
>    - And editing an existing page:
>    
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_a_Wikipedia_Page_-_Beginners_guide.pdf
>
>
>
> They are walkthroughs that seem to be helpful in guiding people through
> key steps like citations and edit summary. I hope they might be useful to
> other event organisers.
>
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> Any feedback greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Alice
>
>
>
> *From:* GLAM <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Romaine
> Wiki
> *Sent:* 31 January 2019 14:20
> *To:* Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [GLAM] Fwd: How to educate participants of an edit-a-thon so
> it sticks?
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> A few days ago we organised an edit-a-thon in what we had participants
> write about important women.
>
>
>
> With most edit-a-thon we start with a group of people that know Wikipedia,
> but are fully new to editing on Wikipedia. We usually start with an
> introduction, which includes telling about:
>
>    - Do not copy paste from other sources, but write in your own words.
>    - For all facts sources need to be added.
>    - Link keywords to other articles in Wikipedia.
>
> and some more things...
>
>
>
>
>
> The participants usually do their best, but usually also forget something.
> Like for example that a participant forgot to add a source for a sentence.
>
>
>
> In our recent edit-a-thon we tried something new: besides the presentation
> given and the handout of some instructions, we also created a checklist for
> the participants to use at the end of their writing so they did not forget
> anything.
>
>
>
> That gave us better results than what we have got with similar groups in
> the past.
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> This leads me to my question: when you organised an edit-a-thon, what kind
> of cheatsheets, tricks, ... do you use so that the articles of participants
> have a higher quality?
>
> (Or that they are more inspired/enthusiastic, more aware, ..., etc)
>
>
>
> Good examples?
>
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> If we can share those, we all can learn from good ideas and examples!
>
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> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Romaine
>
>
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