[WMF-outreach-staff] Collating ways people can be productive, during Hackathon

[Gregory Varnum]

Documentation on MediaWiki.org?


-Greg

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On Jul 7, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> We have a lot of signups from people that want to be helpful
> during the Hackathon but aren't very technical.
> 
> Luckily, Wikipedia needs them! (-:
> 
> I'm trying to collate ways people can be productive, grouped by
> what skills they already have, on this page:
> 
> * http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Draft
> 
> As I feel happy with the page, I'll merge into the main Hackathon
> page.
> 
> Structure-wise, what we'll do is emphasize that page during the
> opening ceremonies, and also have a table for beginners to emphasize
> that they are very welcome to ask for help from people.
> 
> I wanted to get feedback from people here, too, about the contents
> of that list. So far, for non-techies, I have the following tasks
> I can think of:
> 
> * Improve a page within a WikiProject
> * Respond to a Talk Page comment
> * Fix up a page, per a category
> 
> Are there some Commons-related, or OSM-related, or GLAM-related tasks
> that I can add to that?
> 
> I'll be adding more technical tasks to that shortly, too.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
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