Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC/Women Do News Edit-a-thon @ Luminary in NYC

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Unfinished business

This discussion was hosted in User talk:Rosiestep but I think it belongs here instead. It was among Rosiestep, Ejgertz, Ipigott, and me. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:36, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

I'm glad to see the event produced a handful of new articles. Next time round, we need to organize everything much earlier and far more systematically. As far as I can see there are at least half a dozen more biographies waiting to be transferred to Wikipedia. Ejgertz: Any idea how we can access these and work with those who compiled them over the next few days or weeks?--Ipigott (talk) 14:06, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, experience teaches how to be more efficient. One efficiency comes from doing much of the preliminary work on-wiki. Obviously people use other, better kinds of collaborative websites for organizing their various activities, but an early transfer into the back pages of Wikipedia such as the event page and its talk page, helps to draw in more Wikipedians.

Preliminary rough articles especially ought to be put into WP:Draft space or, often better, WP:User subpages. There, you can attract experienced editors such as Rosie, WP:WikiProject Women in Red, and my fellow WP:WMNYC members. Eventually the article will look good enough to transfer to Article Space, thus exposing it to the world's readers through Google etc, and to those experienced Wikipedians who have appointed themselves as gatekeepers against dreadful new articles. It won't be perfect of course; no article is ever regarded as finished, but it will bring with it its editorial history and talk page. This background information helps in evaluating and improving it. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:36, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

It takes a lot of energy (and bravery) to put together your first f2f (face-to-face) editathon, so a big thank you to Ejgertz for doing so. I think you are aware now that there are several of us (e.g. @Ipigott and Jim.henderson and me), plus others who aren't named here, who would be glad to help you with future events, both f2f (through WMNYC) as well as online events (through WikiProject Women in Red). I'm not sure if the articles which were created and/or improved had any promotion via Twitter, but that should be the next step if it hasn't happened already. Women in Red (@WikiWomeninRed) has a broad reach (>7,700 followers) and would be glad to tweet or RT; just let us know any Twitter handles and hashtags to include so we can coordinate. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:39, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Rosiestep! My co-organizer angshah deserves equal if not more credit for this coming off as well as it did. Looking forward to our continued coordination.--Ejgertz (talk) 18:03, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Too bad the organizers could not be at last night's monthly Chapter meeting to supplement or replace my own oral report, which was well received but brief. The larger Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAsianMonth 2019 uptown event turned out to be less interesting to me, but I didn't know that when I left you to join them. However, they had a Wikipedia cake! Next meeting is four weeks from now. So far, we're not sure whether WMNYC will be working any editathons in December. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:38, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Jim.henderson. Sorry I could not be at the November NYC Wikipedia meetup. It would have made a lot of sense, I agree, but unfortunately I had a prior commitment of long standing for the same evening. I hope to come to future meetings, though!--Ejgertz (talk) 18:03, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

I do hope to see you, User:Ejgertz and you can count on me for your next editathon. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:37, 30 November 2019 (UTC)