User talk:Sciencelibrarian

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Wiki editathon[edit]

Saw your post at wikiproject agriculture and wanted to stop by. I'm in the process of putting together a wikipedia editathon for Montana historians to be held by the end of the summer, and also have some suggestions and idea. One is to touch bases with User:Rosiestep who is a editathon veteran. Also, clarify if your idea is to do this as a school or classroom project with undergraduate students or some other group - it may be better to set your project up as a class. Montanabw ^(talk) 06:49, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Montanabw: thanks for pinging me; sounds like you have a cool editathon coming up. Sciencelibrarian, happy to meet you and so glad to see you are putting together an agriculture-themed editathon WP:WikiProject Agriculture#Agriculture Wikithon at Land Grant University. I have quite a bit of experience facilitating editathons, so I'm glad to share those experiences with you. I'm pressed for time with other commitments through 21 July, but can circle back with you after that? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:34, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Montanabw:@Rosiestep: Thank you both for your encouraging replies! I would love to hear more about your experience with the editathons. Our target audience is undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines related to agriculture. It will be a 5-hour event on a Friday, with 1-hour built in for training up front and 1-hour built in at the end for happy hour/group presentations. One issue that I'm currently grappling with is buy-in. How can we get the students excited about participating? We won't be offering credit, as I have for standing classes in the past. Do either of you have experience with this? I realize that you may still be busy with other commitments, but when you have a moment in the next several weeks, I would love to hear from you. One goal of the editathon is to increase access to open data repositories (U.S. and global; not simply repositories at our university). I imagine we can do this by adding references or related pages, but want to encourage it be done in meaningful ways. Any thoughts on this? Many thanks in advance! 128.253.78.182 (talk) 14:03, 14 July 2015 (UTC) @Montanabw:@Rosiestep: Sorry, I wasn't logged in but this previous comment was from me! Sciencelibrarian (talk) 14:18, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually in a similar place to you in that I am assisting a museum in organizing their first editathon for their staff and some key volunteers. I would recommend that you suggest that participants either already set up a user account prior to the event (give them some directions on "safe" and appropriate user names) or do enough wikipedia editing yourself between now and then that you can apply for an account creator user right (more than six new accounts from the same IP and they block the IP address to prevent spammers). I know for younger adults, particularly college students, @Keilana: is the expert on getting them to show up - I gave her the motto from not-wiki-youth-oriented things I have organized that "if you feed them, they will come." So I recommend food being a part of whatever else you do! Montanabw ^(talk) 22:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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