Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/Edit Wikipedia Week

Edit Wikipedia Week: December 3 to December 8, 2007

Edit Wikipedia Week will take place December 3, 2007 to December 8, 2007. The goal of the event is to stage outreach events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in the various Wikimedia projects. For example, individuals can arrange to conduct Wikipedia workshops in their local libraries or schools, reach out to photographers and ask them to contribute to Wikimedia Commons, or simply teach family members about the various projects that exist.

Everyone should be involved in helping to stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events during that week. The idea is to stage outreach events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in the projects.

The events can be practically anything – big or small. You can speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked for a television appearance; talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons; organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your dad how to edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the idea is to reach out to people who don’t edit, and encourage them to make a contribution.

Edit Wikipedia Week is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can organize an event for Edit Wikipedia Week, and it can take whatever form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just participate.

There are no fixed rules, except the following:

• Spread the word as you see fit in your language community, local chapter, project, family etc.
• Make sure to record the ideas that are developed in your language community, local chapter, project, family etc. hereafter.
• Start your own language Edit Wikipedia page week as you see fit to promote and monitor the ideas.

Events scheduled

Here is a section to record what kind of events/initatives you or people you know have taken for the Edit Wikipedia Week so as to keep everyone informed. Please just list your initiative below:

• {city, country} {time(s), date(s)} {short description of event}
• {project} {date(s)} {short description of event}

Ideas

Feel free to list any ideas or tips that you have for other people wanting to plan an event. Requests for comments and help may also be posted here.

Promotional material

Can you help out with material to promote editing? Design posters, fliers? Come up with slogans and graphics to post on social networking sites? I want to go round my local university and hit every noticeboard with a message inviting people to get involved in a wikimedia project. Help me do this by designing the posters. This should not be restricted to English, or to Wikipedia. There are other projects such as wikinews; wiktionary, wikibooks, and wikiversity. All projects could do with a recruitment drive.

As an alternative to designing posters, and assuming someone helps with that, can you get half a dozen posters printed and stuck up around your college?

Sources

To prevent new editors being disappointed by having their edits reverted, an ideal place to have such an event would be a public library. When teaching people how to edit, show them how to source the info they add (after sandbox edits) before they save their first edits to a namespace page.

See also

Edit Wikipedia Week on Meta