[Events] "Learning from our mistakes"

[Lukas Blakk]

Interesting.  Reminded me of when I tried (rather unsuccessfully) to get a wikipedia editing workshop going. It didn't really spark the kind of participation I might have hoped for and I, too, was not aware of so many of the intricacies of Wikipedia culture on the back end.  I blogged about that experience here: http://lukasblakk.com/occupedia-women-contributing-to-wikipedia-the-first-of-many-such-events/

I've never found time since then to return to that idea, sadly, and went back to my comfort zone of teaching programming and web hacking.

-Lukas

On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/14/wikipedia-education-program-sweden/
> 
> "This is the reason to why I will dedicate this blogpost not to success,
> but to failure, or mistakes, call it what you will. But this is what has
> not really worked and what mistakes we have done here in Sweden."
> 
> They've learned some lessons about how to do outreach workshops.  One of
> them: expectation management.
> -- 
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
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