Open Badges and Wikimedia
Mozilla Open Badges Community Call 24th July 2013
1. Title2. GWL Wikipedia editathon3. What is an editathon?4. Feeding frenzy5. Close but no cigar6. Spot the difference7. Wikimedia: live and online8. The future?9. References10. External links
Scottish Women on Wikipedia,GWL Wikimedia editathon
16th November 2013,Bridgeton Library at The Olympia, Glasgow#SWoW
What is an editathon?
1. a scheduled time where people edit Wikipedia together, whether offline,
online, or a mix of both;
2. typically focused on a specific topic, such as science or women's history;
3. a way to recruit new Wikipedians and teach them how to contribute.An edit-a-thon is...
feeding frenzy
close but no cigar
spot the differencespot the difference
v.
Wikimedia: live & online
• editathons
• conferences
• meetups
• events
• hackathons
• training sessions
• account creation
• improvements
• developments
• new articles/materials
&
• Moodle VLE
the future?
• Thanks to Laura Dolan at Glasgow Women's Library for the use of their logo. Logo is All Rights Reserved
• Thanks to Clem for allowing me to link to his Wikipedia badge pack• Wikimedia, Wikipedia, 'How to run an edit-a-thon',
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon, accessed 20-07-13
• 2006-2010 feeding frenzy, by Ard Hesselink, (doc(q)man), 20-02-2010, Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/4372896430/, CC-BY-NC-2.0, accessed 21-07-13
• Wikimedia Hackathon - Amsterdam 2013, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_-_Amsterdam_2013.svg, accessed 20-07-13
• WikiSOO Burba Badge, P2PU, http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/22/, accessed 20-07-13
• Domino (special) effect, Edward Badley, (edbadle), 09/08/2010, Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/8087400@N04/4884654848/, CC-BY-NC-2.0, accessed 20-07-13
References & Acknowledgements
• Amsterdam hackathon 2013, MediaWiki,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013, accessed 2013
• Clem's Wikipedia Open Badges,
https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/663bc7fbbc6a5e0a8d11190c911bc18f/,
accessed 20-07-13
• Wikimedia Fellowships/Project Ideas/Badges for Wikipedia Community
Engagement, Wikimedia meta-wiki,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/
Badges_for_Wikipedia_Community_Engagement, accessed 20-07-13
• Wikimedia UK and Open Badges,
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_and_Open_Badges, accessed 20-07-13
• Wikipedia, User:C01Clem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:C01Clem, accessed
20-07-13
External links