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A collection of solutions and effective practices in the Wikimedia world.
Learning patterns are a simple way to document an important lesson. They explain how to reproduce a successful strategy for executing or evaluating an activity, such as running an edit-a-thon, or how to run a survey.
In a bit more detail, a learning pattern is (1) a guideline that provides advice on how to do something and (2) a template with clear title and consistent format so people can quickly find the information they need when they browse through the library of learning patterns. If you've been involved in a Wikimedia activity, you've probably learned some valuable tips, tricks, advice, or considerations about what works and what doesn't for that kind of activity. You can read more about learning patterns and this project here on the Wikimedia blog.
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I need to make an event page, for a contest or something else.
Last updated: 24 February 2019
You're going to give a workshop on how to edit Wikimedia projects or going to get students in a school or university to edit for the first time. Take care: no more than six people will be able to create their own accounts from the same IP.
Last updated: 24 February 2019
Student contributions are being reverted or deleted, or student accounts have been blocked.
Last updated: 23 February 2019
You want to make the people attending your event relaxed, excited, and ready to work together.
Last updated: 23 February 2019
Some people write a lot in their forms but they sometime miss their personal contribution
Last updated: 19 February 2019
A conference call is coming? You know it’s gonna get boring? Here are a few ideas to spice things up, avoid oversharing, and make sure no one gets heard.
Last updated: 14 February 2019
The pattern aims at providing future Wikimania participants with tips on how to prepare for the conference.
Last updated: 07 February 2019
Spaces on Wikipedia can sometimes be intimidating to newcomers who are afraid to jump in.
Last updated: 02 February 2019
Editing Wikipedia is not easy for new comers, and they are embarrassed when they realized actual Wikipedia-editing is different from what they thought.
Last updated: 30 January 2019
This pattern is an outcome of organising Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 and observing other conferences registration process.
Last updated: 30 January 2019
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Everything has gone horribly wrong! Panic! Don't tell anyone, and maybe the problem will go away!
Last updated: 28 January 2019
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Volunteers are very enthusiastic to organize and host activities, but may not be very interested in providing an activity report and metrics after the event is done. Activity reports for each activity are necessary in order to produce reports required as part of the WMF's grant process.
Last updated: 28 January 2019
Edit-a-thons can become training events, without accomplishing much.
Last updated: 28 January 2019
To run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
Last updated: 28 January 2019
You need to measure your project's output according to the global metrics specified by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Last updated: 26 January 2019
It is difficult to track new user registrations that come from a specific event or online campaign.
Last updated: 26 January 2019
Difficulties in tracking user contributions by chapter.
Last updated: 26 January 2019
If people misunderstand your survey questions, they may not answer them the way you intended.
Last updated: 25 January 2019
Post-event surveys are a great way to gather feedback and contact information from participants; but people get distracted and often don't fill them out.
Last updated: 25 January 2019
Even promising ideas with detailed project plans and broad appeal can fail to achieve their goals if what they produce is not useful and relevant to the right people.
Last updated: 25 January 2019
Psiquiatric patients tend to abandon the editing course and you may feel frustrated.
Last updated: 22 January 2019
You want to coordinate an editing workshop or course with patients at an institution.The project may be delayed due to possible interferences.
Last updated: 22 January 2019
You need to select mental patients for your course.
Last updated: 22 January 2019
Groups of volunteers doing Wikimedia activities may become overwhelmed and demotivated by the amount of administration work that is required to be done to sustain their activities.
Last updated: 22 January 2019
Clear agreement between the partners about the intended impact of the project creates a helpful focus to direct programme’s efforts. Having broad and flexible objectives is a strength of a programme, but not at the cost of unclear expectations from both partners.
Last updated: 21 January 2019
Since 2013, the small team of WikiFranca dedicated to the coordination of the International Francophone Contribution Month, is made up of only one person! How to manage not to drown in all the discussions, requests and global coordination when you are alone?
Last updated: 21 January 2019
How to fully centralize and internationalize a gadget
Last updated: 21 January 2019
You have a large corpus of data that you want to migrate to Wikidata, and you want to do it right.
Last updated: 17 January 2019
Good proposals and reports are more than sheer facts and numbers, they tell stories which make people understand what's great about your work.
Last updated: 17 January 2019
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Last updated: 16 January 2019
Paper books are endangered, these days!
Last updated: 15 January 2019
Projects that require a lot of preliminary work before they can start, or depend on many external factors, easily get bogged down and may fail to achieve their goals.
Last updated: 12 January 2019
Students or workshop participants are making copyright violations.
Last updated: 10 January 2019
You don't have all the skills or knowledge needed to accomplish your project alone.
Last updated: 07 January 2019
You need developers to work on a Wikimedia grant proposal
Last updated: 07 January 2019
There is a giant gap between countries of the global south and those of the north when it comes to producing south-related free content.
Last updated: 04 January 2019
Geeks are the people who are obsessed with specific interest and are potentially very good wikipedians. What makes them excited in volunteering for wikipedia.
Last updated: 04 January 2019
Volunteer Wikimedians sometimes don't manage to get their message across or the leave the best possible impression at meetings with decision-makers.
Last updated: 04 January 2019
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Wikimedia has communities of supporters who are not necessarily of the work carried out by organisations they support.
Last updated: 04 January 2019
Finding new volunteers who understand the fun in Wikipedia Editing and can involve in movement is not an easy task.
Last updated: 31 December 2018
In most of the theme-specific training activities, participants don't get enough time to understand and practice the concepts or tools discussed. This will have a negative effect on the overall outcome of the event or a project.
Last updated: 30 December 2018
In several workshops you may find mixed audience, which is actually a hindrance towards conducting an advanced-level workshop smoothly.
Last updated: 30 December 2018
Digital library of india is a big online books repository for indic languages. But it's not well categorized and the metadata is not easily found in search engine queries or even in that website's queries also.
Last updated: 30 December 2018
Several topics concerning your country do not yet exist in Wikipedia? You could create them yourself, but it's a colossal job and you could have it for years ... maybe even centuries!
Last updated: 29 December 2018
How to get notices out to as many potential editors as possible
Last updated: 29 December 2018
It is difficult to start a conversation with strangers during large conferences.
Last updated: 24 December 2018
Cultural institutions are one of the most important partners for the Wikimedia movement. Sometime, the role of the cultural institutions is passive; we approach their heritage and they invite us to perform activities, but, how can we make organizations become active?
Last updated: 24 December 2018
When Wikimedia chapters decide to hire staff, the question arises who is responsible for what. Unclarity can lead to problems, frustration and conflicts.
Last updated: 22 December 2018
How do we get all democratic political data into Wikidata?
Last updated: 22 December 2018
Dealing with multiple versions of software or components of it can easily become messy
Last updated: 22 December 2018
Issues of race, gender, and sexuality representation among Wikipedia editors
Last updated: 21 December 2018
You have just discovered that an edit you or a trainee have proudly made is being unfairly attacked by other user(s). Soon enough you get embroiled in the discussion and can't resist retorting the accusations.
Last updated: 21 December 2018
Some outreach events are not used for (first-time) Wikipedia editing on-site because a short amount of time and other circumstances seem to be disadvantageous for this kind of immediate Wikipedia experience.
Last updated: 21 December 2018
Using Twitter for your chapter or affiliate's social media outreach?
Last updated: 21 December 2018
An editor is reluctant to contribute because they are unsure whether their idea is helpful or not.
Last updated: 20 December 2018
Senior citizens represent a large and ofter very educated part of our society, yet are underrepresented among Wikipedia editors and attempts to reach to them bring special challenges.
Last updated: 19 December 2018
Creating a new biographical article is very intimidating for new editors.
Last updated: 19 December 2018
With workshops one of the key points to retention is being able to assist participants. Another is being able to identify the impact of an event, this provides a method to accurately capture usernames.
Last updated: 19 December 2018
Words can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.
Last updated: 18 December 2018
Posters are meant to be glanced at, pointed at, and talked about—not read like a book.
Last updated: 18 December 2018
Infographics can be a great way to make sense of complex data and share it with the public. Creating an infographic with a designer is a task, which has to have a plan and tips to create solid infographics to be kept in mind.
Last updated: 18 December 2018
Taking care of children while attending a conference is difficult.
Last updated: 16 December 2018
During conferences, it may not be possible to provide stage-time to all participants who want to talk.
Last updated: 15 December 2018
Many wiki communities do not have formal organizations, and do not have designated spokespersons, who are professional, or at least experienced, in communicating with media.
Last updated: 08 December 2018
Many projects, programs or whole grants start accumulating dozens of receipts to be paid out to various people. At some point this gets confusing and your accountant will go crazy.
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You are digitizing records from an archives to upload to Wikimedia Commons
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Many editing events are way too big and are less effective because of this.
Last updated: 19 November 2018
Newbies attending edit-a-thons are not motivated by a single event. They do not sustain their interest levels if they are not motivated further.
Last updated: 19 November 2018
Engaging and retaining productive Wikimedia contributors is as important as recruiting new ones.
Last updated: 12 November 2018
If your Wikimedia event is open to international visitors you never know which country they will be from. Don't assume that everyone is travelling on a EU passport.
Last updated: 12 November 2018
How can we arrange travel in a cost-effective way?
Last updated: 08 November 2018
The knowledge of marginalised communities is the knowledge of the majority of the world. How can we best support these communities to bring their knowledge onto Wikimedia projects?
Last updated: 01 November 2018
Often people come up with "Wiki Loves" initiatives and face problems regarding planning, and understanding the scope and potential of the campaign.
Last updated: 27 October 2018
Even impactful projects may look unimpressive if the project team sets unrealistic goals, or doesn't develop some way to measure their progress ahead of time.
Last updated: 24 October 2018
Wikipedia faces the challenge of including more women editors . This situation involves creating spaces in our programs for women to be part of them. The evaluation through gender perspective is essential .
Last updated: 19 October 2018
Wikipedia faces the challenge of approaching properly the gender gap issue in terms of its content.
Last updated: 19 October 2018
Many emerging communities or communities are confronted with the problems of engagement, motivation or how to retain their members; here are some orientations, result of experience
Last updated: 20 September 2018
Publishers on YouTube have the option of publishing their material under a CreativeCommons-Attribution 2.0 license.
Last updated: 14 September 2018
Some conference participants need rest, sleep or personal time.
Last updated: 06 September 2018
When developing communications materials it is important to give a balanced portrayal of men and women, not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of quality.
Last updated: 04 September 2018
Al desarrollar materiales de comunicación, es importante ofrecer una representación equilibrada de hombres y mujeres, no solo en términos de cantidad sino también en términos de calidad.
Last updated: 04 September 2018
During outreach events, there is a tendency that the mentor gives too much information to the newbies. This makes newbies overwhelmed.
Last updated: 31 August 2018
Tips about preparing grant' financial reports from the perspective of user groups or individuals.
Last updated: 30 August 2018
Tips about preparing the report of project activities from the perspective of user groups or individuals
Last updated: 30 August 2018
You want to start a new education program and you don't know if you need to start with a pilot or with an entire program.
Last updated: 27 August 2018
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Attending an event can be overwhelming, and it is easy to forget what you did, who you talked to and what sessions you attended.
Last updated: 21 August 2018
I attended a training session held at Wikimania for members of grants advisors/ adjudicators
Last updated: 20 August 2018
Understanding Wikipedia, Wikimedia and their communities is challenging. We can start building understanding by having anyone writing 5 articles for Wikipedia.
Last updated: 07 August 2018
The Program & Events Dashboard is a valuable reporting tool, but implementation is sometimes inconsistent when working with a large number of organizers or events.
Last updated: 06 August 2018
Nuances in a new program deviated from expectations during the workshop and our plan for it
Last updated: 31 July 2018
Many people are not admired and encouraged adequately for their successes at workshops and conferences.
Last updated: 20 July 2018
How can you learn from other’s who have experience in doing a project you are about to start (and know almost nothing about)?
Last updated: 19 July 2018
Managing the resources from large content donors are often difficult.
Last updated: 25 May 2018
It is hard to know the photography preferences of the participants at conferences.
Last updated: 24 May 2018
A brand new user has no idea on where to start editing, and might start with something that is very hard.
Last updated: 24 May 2018
Technical innovation, in a popular area
Last updated: 19 May 2018
The pattern presents several ways filling content gaps on Wikipedia.
Last updated: 18 May 2018
Making a multi-day editathon
Last updated: 09 May 2018
Sometimes what we are trying to teach does not get the attention it should to have a result.
Last updated: 04 May 2018
Public Broadcasters and the Wikimedia movement to a large degree exist with the same purpose in mind: educating and informing. How can they collaborate?
Last updated: 30 April 2018
Most training and recruitment sessions, or Wikimedia clinics, have an acute way of training new recruits or even people who have a fair knowledge of WIkipedia and its sister projects.
Last updated: 29 April 2018
This Learning Pattern provides pointers on what to do when your plane is delayed or cancelled on your way to a Wikip/media event.
Last updated: 27 April 2018
You are running an event and you want to invite Wikimedians.
Last updated: 27 April 2018
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual conference for Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation and its committees. In the past, there have been complaints by newcomers, that integrating into this conference has become difficult.
Last updated: 26 April 2018
Allow audience to browse multiple threads of interest in a physical conference?
Last updated: 26 April 2018
Some people do not feel welcome at events because of previously having a hostile encounter at a similar event.
Last updated: 26 April 2018
Conference sessions are often planned at the last minute with little consideration for goals, expected outcomes, audience preparation, or follow-up.
Last updated: 26 April 2018
How to successfully prepare and process batch upload using the tool Pattypan
Last updated: 19 April 2018
You're organizing a conference, and you think everything is too easy. That's no fun, right?
Last updated: 15 April 2018
Bringing Wikipedians at a common place regularly.
Last updated: 29 March 2018
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Gender and global diversity benefit our conferences! But it's not easy to get a diverse line-up of speakers. Interesting people might be too shy to apply, or too unexperienced in writing a good proposal.
Last updated: 25 March 2018
Offering best practices on how to go about hiring an ED for your organisation and what you should look out for.
Last updated: 13 March 2018
How can you tell if students or workshop participants understand and are using skills you have taught them?
Last updated: 11 March 2018
People like to have some time to socialize with one another after a long day of events.
Last updated: 11 March 2018
Without assigned roles, sometimes important tasks don't get done.
Last updated: 09 March 2018
It can be hard to anticipate challenges experienced by a partner organisation. Those unplanned barriers can throw up barriers to the success of the project.
Last updated: 08 March 2018
Having a breakthrough, tangible case study early enough in a partnership project is a powerful facilitator to generating additional support for the project to carry it forward. A successful case study project helps to illustrate the aims of a project.
Last updated: 08 March 2018
The projects within Wikimedian in Residence programme - such as a mass image upload - presupposes a range of conditions, for example internal copyright knowledge, clean databases, digital skills.
Last updated: 08 March 2018
To function well, a board needs to understand what they are responsible for doing for the organization, and individual members and key office holders should also understand their roles. If these are not documented in a central location, roles may not be clear, or members may disagree about who is responsible for what. If board members do not agree on responsibilities, important tasks may be neglected and conflicts may arise.
Last updated: 03 March 2018
Every new wiki page, starts with 1 watchlister (the author). It is hard to attract collaboration at an unknown destination.
Last updated: 28 February 2018
Digitising books and archives often requires expensive scanning apparatus not available everywhere. This pattern provides alternate methods.
Last updated: 16 February 2018
How can you use Wikipedia in libraries to facilitate digital information literacies?
Last updated: 06 February 2018
Public libraries and Wikipedia both are devoted to freely expanding access to information for all. However, the majority of US public library staff do not edit Wikipedia and 80% of US public libraries are small and rural, which means there are few opportunities to meet Wikipedians locally. How can an online training program effectively meet the learning needs of US public library staff new to Wikipedia?
Last updated: 06 February 2018
“It’s always the same few people doing things”: the core community of Wikimedians engaged in group activities or organizing events stays rather constant.
Last updated: 05 February 2018
Nobody likes note-taking for the rest.
Last updated: 21 January 2018
Conferences can be effective tools for solving problems; but they usually have little real impact.
Last updated: 21 January 2018
Did your work increase the motivation of contributors? How do you know?
Last updated: 20 January 2018
The pattern explains the process of creating portals on Wikipedia.
Last updated: 17 January 2018
Newcomers at editing events may be afraid of 'breaking' Wikipedia, or getting in trouble for editing.
Last updated: 06 January 2018
Create consistency in reporting
Last updated: 29 December 2017
Finding sponsors for Wikimedia projects
Last updated: 25 December 2017
When collecting usernames for in-person events for data analysis on Wikimetrics, it can be tricky to gather all of the participants' usernames.
Last updated: 12 December 2017
Last updated: 12 December 2017
We need to train people to contribute to Wikimedia and in general, the trainees will be adults. The only experience many volunteer trainers have is from when they were being taught as children. The result is that the remembered practices (good or bad) of their teachers will often be what they draw upon when they are training other adults. Those approaches may not be appropriate or effective..
Last updated: 05 December 2017
For teachers, a Wikipedia writing assignment is much more work than other writing assignments. They have to double check the content of the article, grammar, spelling and the validity of the sources.
Last updated: 02 December 2017
The pageviews data files use their own project codes with several formats.
Last updated: 24 November 2017
During conferences, it is good to conduct a poll to know what the participants are thinking.
Last updated: 20 November 2017
Producing free knowledge outside the Wikimedia projects in a word of all rights reserved.
Last updated: 19 November 2017
It is often impossible or very difficult to know the community that a country wide chapter is founded to support.
Last updated: 15 November 2017
Last updated: 13 November 2017
Education programs should evaluate trainees, trainers, methods and education program itself, or they are not acceptable education, nor can evolve.
Last updated: 05 November 2017
How can I enable Wikidata for an infobox on my language's Wikipedia without writing all the Lua scripts from scratch?
Last updated: 28 September 2017
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It is very important to collect and store personal information carefully.
Last updated: 25 September 2017
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You want to improve coverage of historic topics
Last updated: 16 September 2017
You identify a government agency (at any level) with high-quality content that would benefit the Wikimedia projects.
Last updated: 16 September 2017
How do you create editable charts and graphs on Wiki pages?
Last updated: 16 September 2017
How can two chapters organize parallel on wiki writing contest about each other’s countries in order to build a closer relationship between two chapters?
Last updated: 11 September 2017
The pattern aims at providing organisers of expeditions with detailed guidelines for efficient conducting of expeditions.
Last updated: 01 September 2017
You need volunteers to support a program online or offline.
Last updated: 31 August 2017
Last updated: 30 August 2017
While organizing an online Editathon, often it is difficult to track the numbers of articles created, articles created by number of participants, the total number of bytes added and many other problems.
Last updated: 27 August 2017
You want to organize information in the form of a portal
Last updated: 24 August 2017
Sometimes it may happen that during a museum photothon some exhibited items were photographed multiple times, while others remained uncovered. Here is a simple idea how to avoid this situation.
Last updated: 22 August 2017
When a resource you created has multiple wiki pages, and you use a navigation bar, contributing translations can become hard.
Last updated: 21 August 2017
Low women participation in Wikipedia projects is known all over the world. There is less participation of women as well as less content related to women. Many languages are spoken in and around Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. Enriching these language Wikipedias and bringing more women into Wikipedia activities have to be achieved .
Last updated: 21 August 2017
We need to make it easier for people to capture and share what they learn when they perform mission-aligned activities.
Last updated: 21 August 2017
How can someone find patterns in the Learning Patterns Library that are relevant to his or her project?
Last updated: 21 August 2017
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The Wikimedia New York City chapter was supporting an increasingly diverse array of ambitious and challenging projects and events, and it became apparent that in order to support these activities properly, we needed a more cohesive strategy to manage them and report on their progress to chapter funders.
Last updated: 01 August 2017
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環景相機的架設位置和傳統攝影機不同，在舉辦維基演講或其他活動的時候，要在什麼地方架設這樣的攝影機最為適當？
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Offer prizes that contest participants want to win.
Last updated: 24 July 2017
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Inviting international delegates to an event, some of them are required to obtain a visa (sometimes even more due to a stop over in a country) in order to be able to travel and attend the event. Visa applications require careful preparation and a profound knowledge of the relevant processes and requirements behind it. Being not well prepared or informed about these facts, problems may arise. Occasionally, it happens that the invited guests experience obstacles in the visa application process or can’t even attend the event as a result of their visa request denial.
Last updated: 12 July 2017
You want to get into the habit of writing documentation on a regular basis
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How can someone arrange safe and cost-effective international travel?
Last updated: 27 June 2017
Workshops and lectures for educators are traditional and in some point useless. Specially because these learning spaces don’t establish links between assistants or generate educational products. Most importantly, they do not generate a commitment to an education issue or present solutions to the educational realities of the attendees.
Last updated: 23 June 2017
Activities and proposals between the Wikimedia Education Programs and schools are usually punctual and an exceptional. It is possible to generate different strategies to promote a stronger and more relevant relations, to inspire long term projects and experiences.
Last updated: 23 June 2017
Transferring an experience like the design, implementation and evaluation of an education program is not always an easy task: what we share and how we do it, to make it a valuable contribution to a program that is starting or wants to be strengthened in some aspect.
Last updated: 23 June 2017
How can Wikimedia contributors do outreach at a non-wiki academic conference?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Reaching out to high schools and generating interest.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You want to bring brochures, training guides or other materials to an event, but you don't have any yourself.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How do you know if your education program is successful?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
It can be hard to write a good report on complex projects in which multiple people are responsible for individual activities.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
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You set great contest goals, now all you need is strategies to achieve them!
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Legal practices for surveys differ around the world
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Inexperienced users often upload to Commons uncategorized, poorly described and then abandoned stuff, which remains invisible and unutilized for ages.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Some programs were not tailored to the local volunteers' needs and wants and became ineffective.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
As an education program leader, how do you manage course pages, facilitate community engagement with students, monitor user contributions and evaluate your program?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Imagine the awkward situation when after announcing the winners in a contest for encyclopedic photography, fake photomontage images are detected among the winners. Ooops!
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Volunteers and staff don't always work together effectively
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Which scalable solution can we use to teach new contributors how to contribute to Wikimedia project?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
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Last updated: 21 June 2017
New editors or students are making many mistakes with Wiki markup.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Student and educator user pages, articles, edits or content are being deleted.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You want to organize a Wiki Loves Monuments contest, but it is difficult to obtain documentation of cultural heritage sites.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How to calculate four global metrics needed for WMF grant reporting
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Wikipedia has content gaps.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Finding or creating the right illustration for our Wikimedian press releases or publications in blogs or social networks, is sometimes intuitive and natural, while in other cases can be really challenging.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Your community has good photographers, but they need better equipment.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Strategies to achieve goals to integrate photos from projects and contests into Wiki projects.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Many nonprofit organizations keep insurance as a way to manage the liability they assume as an organization.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Providing the best resources for your institution to learn about Wikipedia
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You want to check student contributions for errors or monitor their progress on an education program assignment.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Edits, files, and bytes contributed and other metrics may not totally represent the significance of content contributions that involve creating or improving many pages.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
It is easier to demonstrate impact if you can show who participated, or benefited, from your work.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You need to represent the potential impact of your outreach project on the growth of the Wikimedia movement.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How to easy organise a photo tour
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You do not know if you need to work with the Ministry of Education in your region.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
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How to plan an enjoyable and effective Wiki expedition.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How to plan an aerial photography project.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How can safe and cost-effective automobile travel to events be arranged?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You want to start an education program, but you are not sure what kind of educators and students you should work with.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
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Do you want to learn more about someone's perspective and experiences? Have you ever conducted an interview only to find you've very little usable information at the end?
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Sweepstakes, contests, and giveaways have strict legal requirements
Last updated: 21 June 2017
In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Sometimes, the audio-visual apparatus fails to work and the participants spend a lot of time to make it working.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
You host an edit-a-thon and no one knows what to work on.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
Participation hasn't increased in the past seven years.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
The crowdfunding campaign for the German Culture Hackathon Coding da Vinci did not reach its financial goal.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How to evaluate student contributions to Wikimedia for a grade or mark.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How to change Wiki Loves contests to maintain volunteer and participant interest.
Last updated: 21 June 2017
How do you keep all your ducks in a row to organize an edit-a-thon?
Last updated: 20 June 2017
This learning pattern gives guidance on how to find information about writing a legal disclaimer. This is not legal guidance, but information instead about how to obtain legal guidance.
Last updated: 20 June 2017
I do not know if I should make a work list for an editing contest.
Last updated: 20 June 2017
I want to pick a writing contest topic that will be popular with new or existing editors.
Last updated: 20 June 2017
Building enthusiasm, initiative and promoting a project
Last updated: 20 June 2017
Are you a medical educator? Want to work with your students on adding quality medical content to Wikipedia and don't know how to get started?
Last updated: 20 June 2017
Wiki Takes ... is free content generation with some cultural and social extras.
Last updated: 20 June 2017
It can be difficult to find information about the accomplishments of Wikimedia organizations for somebody not already familiar with those organizations.
Last updated: 20 June 2017
There is no organization of historical images according to year, ethnicity or other categories related to historical interpretation on Wikipedia.
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During the experiences developed in the long distance course, «Puentes entre las culturas escolares, digitales y libres» (Bridges between school, digital and free cultures) made in 2014 and 2015 we found the difficulty of engaging and supporting teachers in the course and in editing articles on Wikipedia.
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Find data from past surveys
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Involving newbies to editing Wikipedia
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What you learn from your survey, and how you can use that knowledge, depends who you ask (and how many people respond).
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Make audiovisuals material it´s not only hire a designer or editing a video. This work has several layers of analysis that should be considered. In many cases do not take notes of this and the goals are not fullfilled.
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What do you do with data from Wikimedia projects or research?
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Volunteers are the lifeblood of every project, hence the need to retain them for future projects.
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How can we evaluate outcomes of particular programs as compared to their costs?
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Survey questions often ask for ordered responses, but it can be hard to think of them on the spot
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Banners are not the only way to reach users quickly on-wiki
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Expanding MT coverage with Wikipedia-relevant translations
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Best practices for Using QuickSurveys tool
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Userpage or user page is used to organize your important details to remember, such as user languages, userboxes, etc. It formerly used as sliding, enabling users to scroll accurately between the skin.
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Education uses work sheets for teaching in schools
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Introductory presentations to Wikipedia can be confusing as many new things have to be said
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Some people in important positions would not read their email, miss important information, and create inconsistency and confusion.
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New editors are discouraged by old users' interventions and (secondary) cannot organize their work with ease. Less computer-literated people have a hard time trying to contribute.
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How to keep course information organized in a central, public space so educators, volunteers and the community can identify student work?
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It is difficult to carry out evaluation and sharing because of language barriers
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How can we use Google Calendar to track of how many hours we have spent on a project?
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I want to know the best way to track contest submissions.
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Unlike Wikis, tools are maintained by fewer people – the platform change very quickly and tools will no longer function.
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Users can spend a lot of time on surveys and get survey fatigue
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It can be hard to know if a survey is ready
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Local groups need a clearly identifiable meeting place to organize actions.
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It can be confusing how to do qualitative analysis for surveys
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MediaWiki pages are static, but interactive group workspaces work need to be dynamic.
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At different points in a process you need to get different kinds of information from participants.
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Some outreach program leaders manage to make a long time impact on many outreach participants where some fail to understand why their hard work did not paid for.
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Staying connected to volunteer editors and potential volunteers can be a challenge, especially if there is a lapse of time between events.
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Participants are not motivated to contribute throughout the duration of a month-long edit-a-thon
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How can safe and short-distance travel to events be arranged?
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Your GLAM partner wants to know how the media they have shared are being used.
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We need to engage more undergraduate and graduate level students to edit Wikipedia.
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Having over 10,000 submissions in a photo contest is great, but selecting winners is tricky
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You are organizing a hack-a-thon and you want participants to share their work
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Recruiting inexperienced newcomers for open source software development projects is valuable, but it is a great risk if you don't know anything about the person yet.
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Tulu Wikipedia started as an incubator project in 2008, there was some activity in 2008-09 and remained almost dormant till 2014. It needed to be made live.
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Non availability of reliable resources in Telugu language, especially online, related to Telugu Language, Culture, Social and Political Aspects
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In India, the university students are expected to submit a report as part of their classroom assignments as paper work. However, the reports, post evaluation, never get published anywhere.
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We all know PR editing happens on Wikipedia. How can we reduce the amount, and impact, of it?
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Some groups, organizations, or projects want to develop longer term plans to guide them toward their long term goals
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The members, gathered in local groups, may have difficulty maintaining a group dynamic when not related to a specific action.
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Image banks sometimes tile large images to safe on server load. In order to get the full resolution image on Wikimedia Commons, these tiles need to be recombined
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Find the right people and tools to judge a writing or photo contest.
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How can we persuade the general public to contribute?
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There were very few articles related to women's studies and gender. In order to generate quality content, one of our institutional partner followed peer reviewing process and expert feedback from the faculty to create a quality article.
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Getting access to Qualtrics
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We have multiple communication channels
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How can safe and cost-effective rail travel be arranged?
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Introduction for beginner-level developers new to the Wikimedia sphere
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Proofreading large amounts of text is a very demanding task. The process should be planned intelligently and operate in an "always learning" mode.
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Prioritizing articles when we are trying to improve quality is tough task. Especially when there are many articles and volunteers think that they should spend their time in improving most prior article to the project.
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Surveys are great tools for collecting data, but caution should be taken when asking people for their information
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Whenever you make a project, you are expected to produce a report, but it is boring and when you finish the project you just wish to do something else.
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Problems may come up when using Wikimedia in education.
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When working in a team project, sometimes team members do not have the same overall idea for how the project should proceed, which might lead to a loss of overall direction
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When working on a project with a team, it can take a lot of time to work on various documents when only one person is writing them.
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To reduce the amount of future transition issues while a Project is currently being built
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Help beginners to rejoin the volunteer photographers community
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New editors who are just learning to use Wikipedia benefit from a collaborative environment.
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Surveys involve data, which may involve laws
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Co-animate training on free licensing and on co-construction of knowledge through the Wikimedia projects to high school students.
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You are planning an event and want to work with another organization to provide prizes, promotion or support from subject experts.
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While it is important for students to be integrated into Wikimedia movement, a generic orientation programme does not serve the purpose.
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Orientation programme for WEP activity usually involves a large crowd of 150-200 students.
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You want to start an education program and are not sure how to find educators to collaborate with.
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OER creation using Wikibooks. Creation of free content textbook using Wikibooks
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You have a project idea that you believe is powerful but you don't have all the skills to make it real.
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Many affiliates send volunteers to Wikimania. But can we ensure - espcially in smaller communities - that we don't only sent the same people every year.
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If you dealing with small human capacities so you want to address several different target groups at once.
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You are interested in measuring a WikiProject's activity to determine how active it is as a project, or to determine its potential to become an active project.
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How can we facilitate a range of people contributing to publicity for an event and monitor their effectiveness?
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It can be difficult for all-volunteer organizations to create an annual report each year at the time it is expected.
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How not to lose the overview over your tech-pool.
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Organising meals during conferences
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You want to resolve a disagreement between a student or educator and a Wikimedia community member.
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To get the most out of an event, people need to understand what they hear and what they read.
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Often during panel and round table discussions, there is a lot of discussion that essentially becomes pointless and/or directionless.
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Often, emails and text-messages are insufficient to attract volunteers. Some volunteers will say "yes" at first, but do not actually come at the D-day.
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Wikimedia organizations, and sometimes other organizations and individuals responsible to the movement, need a way to show what they spent and received during the year.
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Wikipedia can be effective used as a rich resource for authentic texts for translation classes. Trainee translators can choose and translate their preferable texts from Wikipedia.
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Groups, organizations, and project leaders may find it difficult to summarize an entire year's worth of work in an annual report.
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It is sometimes hard to get local sponsors or partners to support one's activities and projects
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I need to connect proposal and report reviewers to relevant learning patterns.
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New articles written by students or educators are being deleted.
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You come across an idea or concept that doesn't have a learning pattern
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How do we go about lobbying in competition with an enormous lobby?
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In group projects, there can be frequent, detailed discussions. However, you may also find yourself frequently needing to revisit or otherwise remember those the discussions, which can cause loss of time and productivity during meetings or your own time.
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There is a lack of a framework for supporting the volunteers and enabling mutual information sharing and collaboration.
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Involving communities in a survey
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Is an online survey the right choice to solve a problem?
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Increase editor retention after a project or program ends.
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You have a limited budget and want to host your event in a public place.
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How to improve quality, increase user retention or reach more participants through photo contests and events.
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Articles written by students or new editors can be low quality.
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Translation content - especially in groups - is an effective way to build Wikipedia content. Finding gaps can be tricky if you are not familiar with a particular subject, and identifying priority areas to translate helps direct this work.
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Sometimes you need or you are asked to write an agreement with a GLAM or another institution to partner with it on the Wikimedia projects.
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You need to recruit your first paid employee, or a valued volunteer who will help your organization with specific tasks. You need this person to understand their role, and you need the organization to understand what they are doing too.
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It can be easy to dive into arguments with out truly listening to each other
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You need to have good practices in place before you take on the responsibility of paid staff or contractors.
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WMF has been conducting site visits as part of their due dilligence reviews over the past few years. However, apart from the formalities these visits are agreat opportunity to showcase the work of affiliates and adressing grant making challenges on both sides.
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How to teach primary students how to position their own pictures to improve Wikipedia articles.
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You want to organize Wiki Love Monuments or Wiki Loves Earth for the first time.
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Wikipedia face the challenge of including articles that refer as much cultures as possible, properly.
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Reaching out to an audience which is not yet part of your community (e.g. game developers and designers) can be challenging, but has great potential to enlarge your existing community.
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In many remote schools far away from the big cities, the Internet connectivity is not good. Especially if many people connect at the same time. Educational editathons seeking to value local histories, so to realize them in these cities is essential to create installed capacity with the local people. In many cases, the geographical distance is big, so have a trip by the WMAR Staff or volunteers is something that we can do once or twice, I have to be an important and complete experience where we can detect potential ambassadors to enroll.
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The more effective we collaborate in our organizations or project teams the more impact we can create with the available resources. Kaizen is a low-threshold approach achieve this.
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Often specific training are not enough for teachers to generate projects with Wikipedia in the classroom with good results.
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Education proposals aimed often teachers, but students are valuable allies to motorize and actively accompany the Wikimedia projects in the classroom. Young people are active users of Wikipedia, recognizing its value as a reference, so that the interest of teachers in captivate their attention is already guaranteed. On the other hand are, students are great communicators of values and ways of Wikipedia.
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Effective organizations and groups need funding for program expenses and operating expenses, but aren't able to undergo the rigorous FDC process.
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A campaign on Wikimedia Commons has two goals: first, it is about generating easier access to photos of a certain institution or theme; second, participants of the campaign already have the category added to the photos they upload and can easily find all their files grouped in one place.
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Sometimes government and governmental bodies will propose policy and legislation that will have negative impact on the Wikimedia projects and free and open knowledge.
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Storytelling about the work of your organization / group
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Training women to participate in Wikipedia
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Many new but promising editors encounter that one of their articles gets marked for deletion.
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Cuando se hace un concurso online para crear artículos en Wikipedia, las evaluaciones suelen ser muy dispares y subjetivas
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Sometimes we don't know how to match our projects with our existing volunteer community. We all lack volunteers when projects get deeper or bigger. How to deal with this?
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It is often impossible or very expensive to get information from an entire population
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Multi-day conferences and hackathons have a lot happening, and it can be easy to get swept up in it and not get enough sleep. This then devalues the subsequent day(s) of the event, which is bad.
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How to avoid typical rookie mistakes when hiring your first staff.
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Making good SMART program objectives is hard at first!
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How to better prepared the participants for the notability and verifiability guidelines during gender gap bridging events.
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Sometimes forms are incomplete because applicants and grantees can't answer a question that doesn't apply to them or their situation.
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Women represent 9–20% of the Wikipedia editing community worldwide. It can be isolating and difficult for women to know how and when to call attention to the problem, and how to promote gender diversity on WIkipedia.
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Wikimedia affiliates often face the organization of many events in a very short time.
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After a software release and its spreading, users start to interact with it and rapidly they come up with many precious ideas. According to circumstances there are better ways to provide a channel for collecting them.
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Featured Articles are some of the most difficult to improve for new editors because the pages are already high-quality.
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Even with an Oxford degree, I don't feel qualified to edit.
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Community discussions are an important tool for progress and decision making in our movement. In order to be productive, they usually require a discussion facilitator, who makes sure the discussion progresses as planned. What makes a good facilitator? What are some do's and don'ts for a successful facilitation process?
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You do not want to lose your time in formatting the table and copy/pasting section that come from the proposal or a previous report
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In large conferences with over 100 participants, it is not always possible to meet all participants and encourage conversations with all people. It is possible that one misses meeting people she/he intended to meet.
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It is hard to remember all the variables involved when planning an event and even harder to assess how they will impact on one another. Leaving things out of the planning jeopardises success and creates more stress too.
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Writing project evaluations can be challenging if you cannot quantify what the outcomes of a project mean.
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When lists of moments don't have coordinates, they can't be projected onto a map
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If you are moving around internationally, don't underestimate the need for local knowledge.
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Making the process of applying for grants more appealing and attractive.
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Simple guidelines for obtaining data about in-kind resources of events
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You want to encourage participation on Wikipedia to remediate systemic biases in Wikipedia's coverage
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Non-Wikipedian experts are often interested in Wikipedia, but don't have the time to commit to editing. This learning pattern proposes a concrete way of engaging them
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When organizing a series of editathons, especially with mostly new editors, it is crucial to have their feedback in order to improve the methodology or approach according to the needs and comments of participants.
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You want to plan an editing or writing contest.
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You are a Wikimedia Education Program manager/volunteer and you wish to collaborate with new high-schools, but it can be time consuming and the quality of outcome is at question.
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Ejemplo de problema
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Expos and other such events have a lot of exhibitors competing for attention and most potential visitors to your booth will have little knowledge of Wikimedia projects beforehand.
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We need to increase the amount of direct donations we receive every year
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Existing projects have strange, complicated requirements. Users can be highly resistant to change. Problems are complicated.
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Creating a machine translator for your language
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The best programs focus on one or two realistic goals and have clear measures of success.
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dealing with concern authorities to take required permissions in order to get some valuable resources or to conduct programs or some other institutional partnership issues.
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I need to send a prize, mini-grant or item to someone living in a different country.
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Editor retention, follow up and awareness
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Not many in the Wikimedia community are well aware of running queries or even using tools to acquire different kinds of data-points.
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Every project – under all rights reserved or with an open license – is required to credits its authors, partners and sponsors.
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Burn out for multi-location edit-a-thon organizers
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The learning curve for creating articles is far too high.
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You don't know how best to organize and share localized or translated training and outreach materials with students and other educators.
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You are designing an outreach program and would like to address the needs of the online community
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You want to set up or improve an editing contest scoring system.
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I don't have enough time to score, judge and track contest submissions manually.
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Streamlining the user experience for non-Wikipedians
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Wikipedia is not well accepted in education
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Find some easy ways to teach people and encourage to contribute into Wikimedia/MediaWiki
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What to do if you are in an activity (workshop, editathon, etc.) and there are problems with the Internet connection
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There are many parts to communicating surveys
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Survey takers want to know - what will you do with their data?
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Demand for a program may exceed the resources you have available.
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Smaller wikis need relatively less maintenance efforts, but after longer periods of community inactivity, it becomes gradually more difficult to detect – and clean – fermented vandalisms, copyvios and other unwelcome stuff.
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You are an instructor and you want to teach your students about Wikipedia
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How to create a single document/book from multiple wiki pages
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In large conferences, the participants do not get to meet people who have similar interests as they have.
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How can we connect GLAM partners and community members?
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You need to make sure that you don't accidentally leave important questions out of your survey.
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Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
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Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
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Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
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Appreciation of voluntary work is an important factor in keeping people motivated.
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The percentage of participants in one-time editing workshops, who continue to be active in editing six months after the conclusion of the workshop, is extremely low. Oftentimes, new editors cease thei
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How can safe and cost-effective air travel be arranged?
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We're trying to find new ways of financing projects
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How can organizers arrange accomodations at meetups in a cost-effective way?
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It has always been a problem to cultivate new editors for Indian language Wikipedia projects as Indian languages are complex, and so are the input methods as learning the same is mostly not part of the school syllabus in India. Encyclopedic writing, Wiki markup and guidelines with an added layer of linguistic and language input complexity has been a bigger obstacle in cultivating new editors.
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To run a successful event on site, time, tasks and resources need to be managed well. It is however impossible to know everything by heart.
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