On 3/17/2011 6:43 AM, elisabeth bauer wrote:
2011/3/17 Carol Moore in DCcontac...@carolmoore.net:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters
My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier
version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback.
What do you mean by this? Did you get any feedback at all?
**If I remember correctly, the response was two Good idea, but I'm too
busy messages. Like all forms of advertising, it is necessary to repeat
the message before people pay attention.
So actually there need to be a series of messages for such group lists
over a period of a month or so. Whether they are all people you know
personally, partially know (as in case of two different lists I sent to)
or not know at all. Say, one introductory and explicit one like the
draft I put up. Two short, wow, look at this article I worked on on
wikipedia (in their area of interest) with general encouragement to
edit. (I.e., obviously not as canvassing to get support on a disputed
article). Maybe mixed into some discussion on some topic. And then
another one that again encourages them in a short friendly way. Plus
drop in links to various articles on topics discussed from time to time
after that. Maybe even put it in one's tag line I edit wikipedia! Can
you guess my handle? or whatever.
So waiting for
others to comment or come up with different approaches before sending out
such outreach emails more widely
I don't think outreach letters, however well formulated, will motivate
many people to try editing Wikipedia. If you know the women you sent
your letter to, why not rather invite them to an edit wikipedia party?
Great idea! Is there a link to show how to do that? I can imagine a few
of us getting together and, after running through the basics, having TOO
much fun with some article, meat puppeting away. (Especially if someone
brings booze.) So good to have clear guidelines on how to do that as a
party - but not party too hard! :-)
greetings,
elian
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