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Abstract

Many volunteers are motivated to join the Wikimedia Movement because of their connection to the mission of the movement rather than the particular skills they can bring to the movement. This presentation will present effective approaches for recruiting volunteers into leadership roles in the Wikimedia Movement. Additionally, the session will discuss strategies and best practices for supporting and appreciating volunteers.

Amount of time required

1 hr 15 min.

Specific learning objectives

• Participants will learn basic ideas about how to recruit people in the Wikimedia Movement and turn them into leaders.
• Participants will learn strategies for retaining skilled volunteers by providing mentoring, training, support, and appreciation.

Plan

• Panel presentation about best practices and pitfalls about volunteer engagement (20 min)
• Participants break into small groups to discuss and document examples, small groups facilitated by panel (40 min)
• Participants come together to share examples of best practices (15 min)

Presenter roles

• Sydney Poore, panel member/facilitates a small group
• May Hashem, panel member/facilitates a small group
• Addis Wang, panel member/facilitates a small group
• Artur Khalatyan, panel member/facilitates a small group

Abstract

In this session, 4 presenters will be prepare a short interactive presentation on 4 different topics:

• The do’s and don’ts of proposal writing OR How to write a strong grant proposal (Kacie)
• Transitioning among grants programs (Winifred)
• What is the Wikimedia Resource Center and how it can help you? (María)
• How to craft strong grant metrics (Sati)

Participants will rotate from one topic table to the next after 15 minutes, and at the end, we will gather impressions and feedback from all participants involved.

Amount of time required

1 hour and 15 minutes

Specific learning objectives

• Participants will learn basic guidelines in proposal writing.
• Participants will learn where to find the resources they need.
• Participants will have a general understanding of how to craft metrics.

Plan

1. Introduction (5 min)
2. Topic Rotations (15 min per topic = 60 min)
3. Conclusion (10 min)

Presenter roles

• Kacie Harold, Do’s and Don’t’s of grants
• Delphine Menard, Level up in grants programs
• María Cruz, Wikimedia Resource Center
• Sati Houston, Grant Metrics

Abstract

How do you think about the impact your program has? And how do you measure it? When you're making programmatic decisions, it's really important to consider impact — and to avoid making the same mistakes others have already made when it comes to thinking about impact. In this session, we'll go over 5.5 mistakes one group has made when thinking about program impact, and what they've learned from them. With each point, we'll have an opportunity for participants to discuss in small groups whether these are also present in their programs, and share their learnings with the group. At the end of the sessions, participants should have a better understanding of best practices for groups in the Wikimedia universe to think about impact.

Amount of time required 1 hr

Specific learning objectives

• Participants learn from the experiences of their colleagues, to avoid common mistakes in program planning.
• Participants put their own program planning challenges in context, by learning from others who are experiences similar challenges.
• Participants may lay some groundwork for solving common challenges together.

Plan

• Participants will sit in tables with others who run similar programs in their regions (e.g., GLAM table, Education Program table, Editathons table, etc.). If you run more than one type of program, choose one! The goal is that you can all share about how your program is currently working and how you will plan that program for the future.
• Everyone will reflect on what program impact means and why it's important.
• Wiki Education Foundation will share mistakes they've made when thinking about the impact of their education program. With each mistake, they will share what they've learned from that mistake. A question on each topic will prompt small group discussions at the tables, with a presenter from each table sharing answers back.
• Participants will have an opportunity to share other learnings they've had in thinking about program impact.

Presenter roles

LiAnna Davis, presenter

Winifred Olliff, facilitator

Slides on Commons

Handouts on Commons

Abstract

Wikimedia Programs are known to have brought the largest amounts of new editors in the past years, as well as the largest amounts of new content added to the Wikimedia Projects. This, powered by the movement tradition of replicating other successful programs has led to multiple implementations of these outreach initiatives. Since 2013, the Learning and Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been collecting data on programs to better understand how they work towards movement goals. We now have two program reports that should help as a resource for community leaders that want to start a new program in their local context. How can you better use this data to design your own Wikimedia Program? What systems are in place to learn from others in the movement? In this session, we will look at successful programs globally and analyze why they work, looking at the logic behind them. We will work together to bring out a formula that could help participants think through the characteristics of their community, the problems they would like to solve and how to create programs that help solve them. We will look at existing program data and work in groups to pick a program with SMART targets, based on that information.

Amount of time required

80 minutes

Type of presentation

Workshop / Panel

Specific learning objectives

• Participants will learn how to use data to design a program that works on a local level.
• Participants will learn how to share back their experience to the wider movement.

Plan

1. Introduction: 4 minutes introduction with program showcase.
2. Step 1: Familiarize yourselves with your community scenario. (2 min sharing + 5 min activity)
3. Step 2: Define your challenge. (2 min sharing +5 min activity)
4. Step 3: Set goals and targets for those challenges. (5 min sharing + 10 min activity)
5. Step 4: Based on steps 1-3, choose one program (5 minutes sharing + 15 min activity)
6. Step 5: draft your program plan: what will you need to start? How can your community support you? (3 min sharing + 10 min activity)
7. Wrap up: 9 minutes to share reflections.

Presenter roles

• Amanda Bittaker, facilitator
• María Cruz, facilitator.
• Community presenter 1, facilitates a small group

Budget and Budget tracking workshop slides on commons

Abstract

Budgeting and Budget Tracking: Is a key part of planning and effectively using resources. In this session, participants will understand the structure of a budget, and how to track against it. Participants will outline their own budget and then discuss strategies to address common budget challenges.

Amount of time required

75 minutes

Specific learning objectives

• Participants understand how budgets tie program planning with resources
• Participants understand the basic dimensions of a budget

• Fiscal Period (Time)
• Natural Accounts (Budget Line items)
• Programs (or Projects)
• + narrative/descriptions

• Participants understand how to record and track expenses against their budget within the dimensions that are appropriate to their needs
• Facilitated discussion: participants share strategies of how they have addressed (or would address) some common budgeting challenges

• How to deal with a situation where a program costs less than expected?
• How to deal with a situation where a program costs more than expected?
• What if I need to completely redesign my program in the middle of the budget period?

Plan Summary

1. Introduce the high-level purpose of budgeting and resource planning (5 min)
2. Explain key dimensions
3. Illustrate dimensions with a real example from a User Group or Chapter (10min)
4. Participants work in pairs (or independently) to draw on paper the essential dimensions of their own affiliates budget, or using an existing budget, identify their relevant dimen(15 min)
5. Participants partner with another individual or pair to share the budget they created and why (5 min) [REMOVED for sake of time]
6. Participants come together to share what they found most difficult about creating their budget and what questions they encountered(10 min)
7. Explain how to tracking expenses against the budget and organize your expense records(15 min)

1. Present an example from an affiliate on how to track actual expenses and keep records
2. (There will be a follow up session on tools)

1. Facilitated discussion on common challenges. (15 min)

1. Question to the participants: What have you done in these situations? What worked well? What didn’t work?

Roles

• James: present on purpose of budgeting and resource planning (Plan #1)
• James: Session Facilitator. Presents budget dimensions (Plan #2)
• Nikola: presents their budget example (#2)
• Romaine: Present on how to track expenses against a budget and provide a community example(#7)
• TBD: Facilitates debrief on budget building exercise (#6) and facilitates discussion on how to address common budget challenges (#8)

Abstract

Documentation of GLAM-Wiki projects, workflows and skill development live in disparate parts of the Wikimedia ecosystem. To help refine the model materials available for this documentation and to build awareness of different types of skills and workflows used in GLAM projects, we will be exploring how to understand common workflows and in small groups, learn about other’s approaches to GLAM projects. This new information will then be collected, and contribute to a larger documentation mapping and facilitation project by WMF, WMUK and WMSE.

Amount of time required

38 minutes

Specific learning objectives

Participants will learn the value of documentation for any stage of a program that they are coordinating. Participants will understand different approaches to GLAM projects and their development Participants will learn what standard practices exist for specific GLAM initiatives.

Plan

5 - 7 Explain workflow mapping and its value. Focus on the model from Stuart and how it facilitates access to documentation. This time is limited, so discussion needs to be limited. 10 - 15 minutes individual workflow - "Map a project that you have done multiple times. Try to add all the steps that you can think of in that project and note where you refer to documentation on Wiki" 15 minutes of group conversation Present your map to a small group of 2-4 -- As the person presents, asks questions about the workflows, and place sticky notes on the page where new steps are discovered or you have feedback with each other’s maps 3 - 5 minute wrap

Presenter roles

• Alex Stinson
• Stuart Prior?
• Romaine?

Abstract

As offline events become more popular and prevalent in the Wikimedia movement the topic of attendee and organizer safety has become an even more important one to think about and is generally required by grant agreements etc. No matter the size or location of the event some sort of planning and preparation can go a long way to ensuring that the event is welcoming and safe with minimal stress for the organizers themselves.

Amount of time

37 minutes

Specific learning objectives

• Understand the expectations for attendee safety at events
• Have a general understanding of basic steps and how to find more support and resources

Plan

• 10 minutes - Intro to event safety- slides, whiteboard
• 20 minutes - Group session - note board - Presenters roam
• 7 minutes - Wrap up with group (Presenters report back)

Presenter roles

• James Alexander
• Sydney Poore

A lot of Wikimedia tools are very useful for running, tracking, and evaluating programs. There are tools to make uploading media easier, hearing from participants easier, and tracking and showcasing what you’ve done more easily as well. In this rotation, different tables will showcase key tools program leaders have found useful. Participants spend 5 minutes learning about a tool before rotating to a different table to learn about a new tool. Tables will include:

• how to upload media with PattyPan and GLAMpipe
• program management with the Program and Events Dashboard
• how to find resources with the Wikimedia Resource Center
• how to track viewing and editing statistics with PetScan
• how to build a survey with the Survey Support Desk
• how to find any public data in the MediaWiki databases with Quarry handout on Commons
• how to submit bugs and track tasks with Phabricator

Amount of time required

45 minutes

Specific learning objectives

Learn the following about at least 4 tools:

• What the tool is and what it does
• Which situations the tool is most useful for
• Where to find more information about the tool

Plan

1. Explain how the session works and the tables (5 min)
2. Participants rotate around tables (5 minutes each table, 2 mintues of rotation) (40 min)
3. Wrap up (2 min)

Presenter roles

• Amanda Bittaker, introduces session
• Alex Stinson leads media upload table
• LiAnna Davis leads PE Dashboard table
• Maria leads Wikimedia Resource Center table
• Community participant leads PetScan table
• Edward leads Survey table
• Amanda leads Quarry table
• Erica leads Phabricator table (TLDR flyer)

Audience

Wikimedia affiliates who want to start a new project

Session Format

Workshop

Length

60 min

Room setting

U-Shape

Description

Based on Jessie Wild’s presentation at Wikimedia Conference 2014:

• Wikimedia Conference 2014: Making ideas into action
• Wikimania 2016: Making ideas into action
• Wikimania 2015: Making ideas into action
• Wikimania 2014: Making ideas into action

This workshop is intended to be the third in a row in the capacity building track, after a session on creating strategies for Wikimedia affiliates and a session on creating annual plans based on organizational strategies. It follows up on similar presentations at previous Wikimedia Conferences and Wikimanias ("Making Ideas into Action"), bringing strategic ideas down to concrete projects.

We will share some basic theoretical principles of collaborative project creation and development. We will then offer an activity for participants to apply this knowledge to concrete ideas they bring to the workshop.

Participants will work in pairs (or groups of four to five), and fill out a worksheet (possibly a project charter), where they will describe a few initial tasks to complete. The worksheet is intended to be the planning document for this project.

Desired Outcome

Participants will leave with a clear sense of how to work through ideas and create sustainable projects.

Mid-term impact

More elaborated grant proposals by WMF affiliates

Speakers

Kacie Harold, Nikola Kalchev

Abstract

Listening to community voices in a balanced way is key to making decisions that are collaborative and legitimate, an important value of the movement. There are many tools we use: surveys, consultations, community wish lists, mailing lists, and many others. These tools are each unique and are not just about getting input, but also are also a way to gather insights about needs, challenges, or opportunities of communities. In this session, participants will need to work through a challenge and figure out which tool would work best and try to figure out how to best design that tool based on specific requirements.

Amount of time required

45 minutes

Specific learning objectives

• Participants will learn how to pick a certain tool
• Participants will learn available resources for each tool

Plan

1. Introduce the topic (15 minutes)
2. Participants break into small groups, read problem statements and fill out a worksheet (20 minutes)
3. Present back to group (10 minutes)

Facilitator roles

• Edward Galvez, Facilitator

Abstract

Storytelling is a skill that not everybody is born with, but anybody can learn. With a structured approach, we walk participants through key concepts in storytelling practice, using the ABCD framework. Participants apply this to a specific project they want to communicate, and leave with a clear idea of key messages they need to develop in their communications plan. In this workshop, we will also review the posters submitted to apply the ABCD and see what is good about the poster, and what could use more work.

Amount of time required

60 minutes

Specific learning objectives

• Participants will learn basic concepts and practices in storytelling.
• Participants will draft first key messages they want to share about a project they want to communicate.
• Participants will apply the ABCD framework to posters.

Presenters

• María Cruz, facilitator

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