Grants talk:TPS/nwhysel/IASummit2016

Hi @Nwhysel: The Participation Support Committee is glad for having received your grant request. May we ask whether your Edit-a-thon has already been officially accepted as part of the game night? Furthermore we have some questions with regards to your planned activity and were wondering, what you were referring to when you were talking about "co-marketing sponsor"?
In addition we want to take the chance to inform you that we learnt that single edit-a-thon events are rarely successful in terms of editor-retention. Therefore we would be very curious to know whether you have planned any follow up activities to support any prospective contributors?
We're glad to hear from you and send our best wishes, --Muriel Staub (WMCH) (talk) 17:04, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Nwhysel: It would be great to hear back from you. The committee can not review your TPS request until you have answered the questions we asked you. Thanks for your understanding and best wishes, --Muriel Staub (WMCH) (talk) 16:21, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes. The editathon was accepted as part of game night. We would get a table for ten and attendees would be free to move among activities throughout the evening. The summit organizers offer a limited number of free sponsor tables in exchange for co-marketing, usually mention in a newsletter or local meetup site. (These are tables in the exhibit hall for the duration of the conference, not the game night tables). I am not sure if sponsor tables are available at this point but didn't want to represent Wikimedia without feedback from you first. We would be able to pass out flyers, stickers, pins, have a banner or table cover, etc.

There is also a possibility of introducing Wikipedia editing as part of a protest of anti-LGBT legislation in Georgia. There is a group of conference attendees who had threatened to boycott the event but because the timing was too close and many have already made their travel arrangements, some of the community leaders decided to organize an offsite event. I have proposed connecting with the Atlanta Wikimedia since they are doing a LGBT theme event in June. So it would be nice to get pins and stickers regardless of the amount (or whether) WMF will fund my travel. Thank you for your consideration,-- Nwhysel (talk) 11:53, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Nwhysel: Thank you very much for your feedback. We are glad to hear that your Edit-a-thon got officially accepted in the program. If you would like to host a booth at the iasummit, we are glad to provide you with material like pins and stickers. We will get in touch with you via eMail to know where to send the material to. In our experience, single-event editathons are not effective in retaining new editors. Follow-up outreach, such as additional editathons or other forms of support are essential to lasting impact. We wish to know how you will make sure the Edit-a-thon is not a single-activitiy but a starting point with a thought-through follow up process? We would be glad to learn more about this. Best wishes and thanks for your answer, --Muriel Staub (WMCH) (talk) 05:41, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you @Muriel Staub (WMCH): I have an update on the event. This is in fact a second Wikipedia related event coordinated for the IA Summit. I hosted an editathon at the event in Minneapolis last year, which helped to introduce Wikipedia and the role that information architects can and should be playing as editors and/or developers of data and information architecture tools. I have been reaching out to IAs who I know are active in Wikipedia events to spread the word about the IA Summit editathon. Veronica Erb (User:Verbistheword) was very supportive as is Richard (User:Pharos) of the NYC group.

On May 7, we will be attending a special working session of the Information Architecture Institute at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. We will be covering "Architecting the information of Georgia House Bill 757" and I plan to incorporate a lesson on WikiData and Wikipedia as well as reintroduce the WikiProject Information Architecture, and serve as a facilitator to new editors. I invited the Atlanta Wiki Loves Pride team to participate and will update on that coordination. The game night event follows that session back at the conference hotel.

I would love to make the editathon an annual part of the IA Summit and to facilitate additional events at local group meetups via the Information Architecture Institute to provide information architecture professionals a way to practice their skills in the service of Wikimedia and the development of Wikipedia and Wikidata tools. Nwhysel (talk) 22:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Request funded

Hello nwhysel,

The Participation Support Committee is glad to reimburse your participation in the IASummit2016, upon receipt of your post-event report, which is due 14 days after the event. Your report must provide a link to an outcome from your participation. An outcome does not include the materials you prepare to present at the event (though we’d like you to link to those, too), but something that is created during or after the event because of your participation, such as a link to something new that was co-created by you and your fellow participants at the event, a blog post you wrote to share your experience with others after the event, or a learning pattern to teach others something you've learned at the event. If you choose to make a learning pattern, think creatively about what you learned. For example, since you addressed a specialized target audience about whom you have unique insight (based on your training in Information Architecture), your learning pattern might focus on a strategy you employed that was successful in engaging that specific audience in our projects.

Our Grants Administrator will be in touch with you about your grant. Thank you for work on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Warm regards, --Marti (WMF) (talk) 16:36, 11 May 2016 (UTC)