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Hello everyone!
I am pleased to announce the first Program Evaluation and Design Workshop!
- When: 22–23 June 2012
- Where: Budapest, Hungary
The application process is now open. We have only 20 slots available
for this workshop and the application deadline ends on May 17th. This
two-day event will be followed by a pre-conference workshop at Wikimania
2013. Ideally, applicants would commit to attending both events.
Why are we offering this workshop? Over the next couple of
years, the Wikimedia Foundation will be building capacity among program
leaders around evaluation and program design. A better understanding of
how to increase impact through better planning, execution and evaluation
of programs & activities will help us to move a step closer to
achieving our mission of offering a free, high quality encyclopedia to
our readers around the world.
What will take place at this and the following workshops? Our long-term goals are:
- Participants gain a basic shared understanding of program evaluation
- Participants will work collaboratively to map and prioritize
measurable outcomes, beginning with a focus on the most common program & activities
- Participants will gain increased fluency in common language of
evaluation (i.e. goals versus objectives, inputs & outputs versus
outcomes & impact)
- Participants will learn and practice how to extract and report data using the UserMetrics API
- Participants will commit to working as a community of evaluation
leaders who will implement evaluation strategies in their programmatic
activities and report back at the pre-conference workshop at Wikimania
2013
- …and participants will have a lot of fun and enjoy networking with other program leaders!
We will publish a detailed agenda for the event in Budapest soon on meta.
Which programs & activities are we going to focus on? During
the workshop in Budapest, we will only have a limited amount of time.
Therefore, we will be focusing on the some of the more common programs & activities:
- Wikipedia editing workshops where participants learn how to or actively edit (i.e. edit-a-thon, wikiparty, hands-on Wikipedia workshop)
- Content donations through partnerships with GLAMs & related organizations
- Wiki Takes/Expeditions where volunteers participate in day/weekend events to photograph site specific content
- Wiki Loves Monuments which takes place in September
- Education program/classroom editing where volunteers support educators who have students editing Wikipedia in the classroom
- Writing competitions which generally take place online in the
form of contests, WikiCup, and challenges – often engaging experienced
editors to improve content.
Who should apply? Community members who play an active role
in planning and executing programs & activities as described above in
the Wikimedia community. Your experience and knowledge will make this
workshop a success!
What about the costs for travel and accommodation? Hotels,
flights and other transportation costs will be on your chapter; the
Wikimedia Foundation will provide the venue, handouts, breakfasts and
light lunches, and a dinner for all participants on Saturday. If you're
not affiliated with a chapter and cannot afford to attend the event,
please send me a private email – we have a small amount of money set
aside for those cases.
Applications are open until May 17. You can apply via this Google Form.
Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to a great group of participants!
-Sarah
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Sarah Stierch
Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator
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Thanks in advance,
-- Tomasz
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