User talk:Viola-ness

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Viola-ness, good luck, and have fun. – Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) ^talk 05:22, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Data on McGill editathon[edit]

Hi Sarah! I hope this finds you well. My name is María, I am community coordinator of Program Evaluation & Design team at Wikimedia Foundation. I reach out to you to ask about MCGill Library editathon. We are currently going through round II of data collection, a voluntary program reporting initiative that helps us build a bird's eye view of Wikimedia programs. I would like to know if you want to include data from this and other editathons you might have coordinated in this round. Please reach out to me on my talk page or email me at mcruz [at] wikimedia [dot] org. Thanks! MCruz (WMF) (talk) 16:31, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sarah, I'm with the Program Evaluation & Design team at WMF. I'm following up on Maria's note about program data for the McGill Editathon. There are still a few bits of missing data we'd like to fill in before Nov 26th. I've posted them over on the event talk page, could you please respond with any data you have, or "Don't know" for the answers you do not have, within the next week? If you have any questions, please contact me through my talk page or at abittaker at wikimedia dot org. Thanks so much, this really helps our program learning and capacity building for future editathons! --Abittaker (WMF) (talk) 21:05, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-a-thon Draft Report on Meta[edit]

Hello Sarah, I’m from the Program Evaluation & Design team at the WMF. (I pinged for some data back when I first started with the Foundation.) Late last year we received data on edit-a-thons which were completed between September 2013 and September 2014--now the edit-a-thon evaluation report draft is ready for your review. I'm reaching out now because we would love your feedback before we announce the report to the broader community.

Does the analysis and presentation resonate with your programs?
How is the report useful to you as a program leader?
What other data would help to tell the story of edit-a-thons?

Also, would you be willing to contribute a quote for the report? For example, what motivates you when leading an edit-a-thon? What does success look like? If you can send a quote by August 16th I would love to include it in the report.

In this report we were able to present 121 edit-a-thons that brought in 2,275 participants and included 5,272 articles created or improved. We expect that this report will help our communities have a more comprehensive view of editathons around the world.

If you want to discuss edit-a-thons and the report findings with other program leaders, we’re hosting a virtual panel of program leaders with group discussion on the themes and findings the week of August 24th. If you have key themes you would like to discuss in the hangout, please do share them on the report talk page!

The estimated plan for review:

Program leaders who submitted data to review until August 16.
L&E to incorporate feedback and announce on the PE&D mailing list and social media the week of August 17.
WMF blog post and a virtual panel the week of August 24.

Thank you again for all your work to track and showcase the results of your edit-a-thons. If you can give feedback on this report, we would appreciate the chance to highlight program leader insights and improve both this and future reports. Abittaker (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]