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Slide presentation by User:AshLin

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HOW TO ORGANISE AN ONLINE COLLABORATION ON A WIKIMEDIA PROJECT

The online collaboration shown in the presentation was the Tag & Assess 2012, conducted by the Indian community in March-May 2012, on WikiProject India, on English Wikipedia.

GENERAL PLANNING OF AN ONLINE COLLABORATION
  • What is the purpose of the online collaboration?
  • Which Wikimedia Project will you use for this?
  • Which community will you get your volunteers from?
  • What are their motivations/rewards?

DETAILED PLANNING OF THE DRIVE
  • Plan how the event will be conducted broadly.
  • Get publicity, including social media, to announce.
  • Aim - what is the aim of the drive? E.g. get students to learn how to create articles, to get people to donate maximum images, etc.
  • Results, Endpoint. When will the drive be considered complete? At a date, say 01 September - 30 September? If some landmark is reached, e.g. 500 images added to Wikimedia Commons?
  • Make the pages - example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%26_Assess_2012 (start simple, add details as the need arises)
  • How the participants will work: e.g. it could be “login to Commons, add images using the Upload Wizard, add hashtag in the edit summary, update their tally on the project page.”
  • Guides/FAQ for Particiapants: Prepare these. Many students/volunteers will need guidance. Here is an example ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%26_Assess_2012/Guide_-_Part_1 )
  • Rewards & Recognition: decide this carefully. It need not be material, it could be announcement, felicitation, awarding online barnstars, given special access to a Museum, etc.
  • Actually Conduct of the event
  • Completion activities (announcements, rewards, announce the competition is closed on the Wikipedia pages.

DETAILS OF CONDUCT


Logistics
  • This presentation was given by Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin) on 26 Aug 2021. Contact details: ashwin.baindur (at) gmail.com (Mobile: + 9 1 - 9 8 3 0 6 1 7 9 6 2).
  • The main organiser was User:Neechalkaran in Tamil/English for JKKN Group of Institutions

(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Wikimedia_Movement_at_JKKN_Institutions )

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