Grants:Project/ColMex/First Wikipedian in (Academic) Residence in Latin America/Timeline
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Timeline for ColMex
[edit]Timeline | Date |
Project start | November 6, 2017 |
WiR Training Complete | December 21, 2017 |
Wikipedia workshop for librarians | January 22, 23, 24, 2018 (Three sessions) |
Wikipedia workshops for beginners | January/February 2018 |
1st Edit-a-thon "Haciendo y deshaciendo el género" in the frame of the International Day of Women | March 8, 2018 |
Midpoint report | April 5, 2018 |
Wikipedia workshops for intermediates | May 2018 |
#1Bib1Ref campaign | May 15-June 5, 2018 |
Mini Edit-a-thon "Historia Intelectual" | May 17, 2018 |
Workshop "Apertura de las colecciones digitales a través de los Proyectos de la Fundación Wikimedia" at the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) | July 4, 2018 |
2nd Edit-a-thon "De voz en voz, lenguas indígenas de México" | August 9, 2018 |
3rd Edit-a-thon "Movimientos sociales" | October , 2018 |
Project's last day | October 31, 2018 |
Final report | November 30, 2018 |
Monthly updates
[edit]Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.
November
[edit]Training
- Librarian Training as a WiR with reinforcing strategy:
- Wikipedia principles
- Wikipedia article creation
- Wikimedia uploads
- Wikidata entries
- Basics of a successful edit-a-thon
- Basics of working with Library staff + 1Lib1Ref
- Basics of Wikipedia Education
- Wikipedia principles
Presentations
- Presentation of the WiR to the academic coordinator of COLMEX
- Presentation to promote Wikipedia Education Project to academic coordinators of COLMEX
1st Edit-a-thon
- Definition of the 1st edit-a-thon "Haciendo y deshaciendo el género"
- Creation of the draft call for participation
- Draft of a timeline of previous, during and after event activities
December
[edit]Presentations
- Presentation of the Future WiR to the Library Community
Workshops
- Class plan for Wikipedia for Librarians Workshop
- Class plan for Wikipedia for Begginers Workshop
- Class plan for Advanced Wikipedia Workshop
1st Edit-a-thon
- List of 50 featured women without a Wikipedia article
- List of 50 gender issues without a Wikipedia article
Other activities
- Integrate to Wikipedia+Libraries facebook group
- Participation on the #16díaswiki campaign on twitter
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January
[edit]Meetings
- President of Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales (CEAS)
- Director of Unidad de Difusión y Divulgación at Instituto de Ecología, UNAM
- Researcher from Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Sociales Universidad de Colima
- President of Wikimedia México
Workshops
- Organization of workshop: Wikipedia for beginners
- Banner design to advertise the Beginners Workshop
- Spreading Wikipedia workshops
- January 22-24 - Wikipedia for Librarians Workshop
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 14 |
New users | 8 | 8 |
Created Wikidata elements | 10 | 20 |
- January 29 - Wikipedia for Beginner Workshop (morning)
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 13 |
New users | 8 | 8 |
- January 29 - Wikipedia for Beginner Workshop (afternoon)
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 11 |
Streaming course assistants | 20 | 23 |
New users | 15 | 15 |
1st Edit-a-thon
- Final version of the call for participation to the 1st Edit-a-thon
- Verification of where is going to take place the 1st edit-a-thon and how many people is going to attend the event
- Identification the speakers for the discussion panel previous to 1st Edit-a-thon
Other activities
- Review the article: es:Programa de Modernización de la Administración Pública
February
[edit]Workshops
- February 8 - Wikipedia for beginners workshop (morning)
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 15 |
Streaming course assistants | 20 | 51 |
New users | 15 | 53 |
- February 8 - Wikipedia for beginners workshop (afternoon)
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 16 |
New users | 8 | 14 |
- February 19 - Wikipedia for beginners workshop
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 2 |
New users | 8 | 2 |
Wikipedia: Education Program
- Meeting with a teacher from "Programa de maestría en estudios de Asia y África" to implement Wikipedia in his class
1st Edit-a-thon
- Verification of the technological infrastructure for the 1st edit-a-thon
- Spreading the discussion panel previous to 1st Edit-a-thon
- Spreading the Edit-a-thon
Other activities
- Blog entry for "Amontonemos las palabras", Daniel Cosío Villegas Library's blog. Wikipedia en la biblioteca, una mirada desde la BDCV
- Load four images to Wikimedia Commons
March
[edit]1st Edit-a-thon
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Editors | 30 | 38 |
New articles | 30 | 43 |
Edited articles | 20 | 35 |
Upload images | 0 | 1 |
Created Wikidata elements | 0 | 3 |
Edited Wikidata elements | 0 | 9 |
- Run the discussion panel previous to 1st Edit-a-thon
- Organization of the 1st Edit-a-thon
- Gather information to use to create/edit articles
- Prepare the list of participants
- Remember participants by email the event
- Spreading the Edit-a-thon (video)
- Invite people who participated on previous workshops
- Run the edit-a-thon "Haciendo y deshaciendo el género"
- List of articles created/edited during the event
- Event dashboard: Editatón haciendo y deshaciendo el género
- Track of contributions by hashtag: #WikiBDCV
Wikipedia: Education Program
- Assist to Historia de la India II class to introduce WiR with students and present the plan class
- First progress check with students
Mini-Edit-a-thon
- Starting organization for the event
Other activities
- Consultation about Wikipedia with an El Colegio de México's teacher
April
[edit]Mini-Edit-a-thon
- Meeting with Researcher from Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Sociales Universidad de Colima to organize the event
- Co-writing email to invite participants to the edit-a-thon
- Create form for register
- Request a place at the library for the event
- Request videoconference for remote participants
Workshops
Organization of two workshops:
- Wikipedia intermediate level Workshop
- Class plan
- Slides
- Banner design to advertise the Workshop
- Spreading Wikipedia workshops
- How to participate at #1Bib1Ref campaing? Workshop
- Class Plan
- Slides
- Banner design to advertise the Workshop
- Spreading Wikipedia workshops
#1Bib1Ref
- Meeting with Wikimedia Mexico's president
- Prepare the library's work program
Other activities
- Submit Midpoint Report
- Metting with Monika Sengul-Jones (Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC) to share experiences
May
[edit]Workshops
- May 3-Wikipedia middle workshop
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 5 |
New users | 5 | 3 |
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 5 |
Video views | 10 | 152 |
New users | 0 | 3 |
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 10 | 15 |
Video views | 10 | 175 |
New users | 0 | 2 |
Mini Edit-a-thon
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
New articles | 5 | 4 |
Edited articles | 0 | 1 |
Created Wikidata elements | 5 | 6 |
Edited Wikidata elements | 0 | 2 |
- Organization of the Mini edit-a-thon
- Verification of the technological infrastructure
- Review the articles drafts
- Remember participants by email the event
- Run the mini edit-a-thon "Los intelectuales y el espacio público"
- Event dashboard: Mini editatón Historia Intelectual
- List of articles created/edited during the event
#1Bib1Ref
- Video to spread the campaign and the workshop
- Library's work program
- Create a facebook group to support contributors
- Support BDCV's librarians with their contributions to the campaign
- Blog entry to promote the campaign
- Upload handbooks to Commons:
Wikipedia: Education Program
- Follow up the article draft
- Support the contributions load
- Review the contributions
- Ask for feedback to students and professor
Other activities
- Class plan draft for the workshop "Desarrollando habilidades para colaborar con el conocimiento abierto a través de los Proyectos Wikimedia desde la biblioteca"
- Checklist for organizing an edit-a-thon
June
[edit]1bib1ref
Complete the campaign with the following achievements:
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
New references | 15 | 40 |
New external links | 5 | 16 |
Bytes added | ≥5000 | 16433 |
Workshops organization
- Workshop "Apertura de las colecciones digitales a través de los Proyectos de la Fundación Wikimedia" at the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
- Workshop: "Desarrollando habilidades para abrir el conocimiento con los Proyectos Wikimedia desde la biblioteca" at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL)
Handbooks
Load to Wikimedia Commons six handbooks:
Meetings
- With a researcher from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte to review an article
- With staff from Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores to advice on the organization of an edit-a-thon
July
[edit]Edit-a-thons
- Set the dates for the "Movimientos sociales" and "Lenguas indígenas" edit-a-thons (October)
- Structure the work plan for both events
- Make a list of possible institutions for collaboration
Wikipedia: Education program
- Invite teachers to integrate Wikipedia in their classes
- Participation in the "Curso de investigación documental" (Information Literacy Course) to teach the Wikipedia basics
- Keep record of the activities
- Make a handbook draft to implement it on every course of this type
Workshop
Other activities
- Follow-up and analysis of users created during the residence
- Send a panel proposal to "Encuentro de Estudiantes y Profesores del Colegio de Bibliotecología" at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM
- Take pictures to the sculptures of "Los Rostros de las Letras" exhibition to load them to Wikimedia Commons
August
[edit]Workshop "Crea un artículo en Wikipedia"
Edit-a-thons prep work
Movimientos Sociales:
- Contact possible collaborators
- Create the program event
- Spread the call for participation
- Articles to edit: List proposal
- Cartel design
- Spreading the event
De Voz en Voz:
- Contact possible collaborators
Other activities
Upload handbooks to Wikimedia Commons:
September
[edit]Edit-a-thons prep work
Movimientos Sociales:
- Banner design
- Registration form
- Print the poster
- Spread the call for participation, banner and poster in social media and strategic places
- Prepare bibliography
- Request and verify the necessary technological infrastructure
- Get and prepare the prizes and souvenirs
De Voz en Voz:
- Contact possible collaborators
- Draft call for participation
- Registration form
- Desing and print the poster
- List of possible articles to create/edit
"Crea un artículo en Wikipedia" Workshop
- September 17
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 3 | 10 |
New users | 1 | 0 |
Created articles | 5 | 2 |
- September 20
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Attendees to the classroom course | 15 | 10 |
New users | 4 | 0 |
Created articles | 10 | 5 |
Meetings
- Unidad de Servicios Bibliotecarios de la Coordinación de Bibliotecas de la UdeG - To co-organize the Movimientos Sociales Edit-a-thon
- Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) - To collaborate on the De Voz en Voz Edit-a-thon
- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano - To collaborate on the De Voz en Voz Edit-a-thon
- GLAM Wiki Tel Aviv panel participants - To discuss the methodology of the panel
Other
- Upload "Crea un artículo en Wikipedia" workshop slides
- Support a librarian in the implementation of WikiEducation Program on an informational literacy course
- Prepare the slides for the panel Why before how: Program design strategies to strengthen ties between Wikipedia and libraries
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Editors | 20 | 19 |
New articles | 15 | 20 |
Edited articles | 30 | 62 |
Upload images | 10 | 69 |
Created Wikidata elements | 5 | 4 |
October
[edit]Edit-a-thons
- Movimientos Sociales
- De voz en voz: lenguas indígenas de México
- Organization:
- Launch the call for participation
- Spread the banners
- Organization:
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | |
---|---|---|
Editors | 20 | 23 |
New articles | 15 | 12 |
Edited articles | 30 | 30 |
Upload images | 10 | 13 |
Created Wikidata elements | 5 | 3 |
- Coordinate the parallel edit-a-thon at Biblioteca de Investigación Juan de Córdova
- Receive gifts from the collaborating institutions
- Gather information to create/edit articles
- After the event:
Other activities
- Prepare the slides for the panel "Why before how: Program design strategies to strengthen ties between Wikipedia and libraries" presented in GLAM Wiki 2018
- Identify some copyright free books owned by the library
- Slides draft for the wikipedia workshop in Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara
- Upload handbooks to Commons:
November
[edit]Extension request
[edit]Is your final report due but you need more time?
Extension request
[edit]New end date
[edit]October 31, 2018
Rationale
[edit]The initial proposal was a six months project, but we created a new strategy that involved training the WiR, creating manuals of this training, and establishing a flexible part-time job that allowed us to do more activities with the same budget.
Request approved
[edit]Approving a new end date of October 31, 2018. Glad you're adapting your plan to make best use of the resources available. --Marti (WMF) (talk) 06:39, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
- Also, noting here that the new final report due date is 30 November 2018. -- Best, JTud (WMF), Grants Administrator (talk) 19:00, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Extension request
[edit]New end date
[edit]Project end date stays the same (October 31, 2018). Final report: February 28, 2019.
Rationale
[edit]The project is over but we are still analyzing our outcomes and looking for the best way to present our experiences without repeating what has been said already.
Request 2 approved
[edit]This extension request for February 28, 2019 has been approved, thank for you continuing to work to finish your project analysis and consider how to organize them for this report. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:59, 13 December 2018 (UTC)