User:Missvain/WW1 Evaluation

from User:SarahStierch/WWHMProgramEval

The first WikiWomen's San Francisco edit-a-thon took place on March 17, 2012. It was held at the Wikimedia Foundation. Participants, many of whom were women, were asked to edit about women's history related subjects.

You can read a brief report about the event here, and a more detailed report written by volunteers here.

Theory of Change
Wikipedia has a gender gap. More men edit Wikipedia than women. The theory of change for both WikiWomen's edit-a-thons is that by having tailored events focused on engaging women, more women will learn about the policies and procedures of editing Wikipedia, and will contribute relevant content to their interests. Throughout the Wikimedia community, the theory of change is that any edit-a-thon will bring new editors and help to excite and retain experienced editors through social editing experiences. Thus, we would be able to bring more women to become editors of Wikipedia, and enthuse experienced women editors as well.

Inputs

 * Volunteer time = total 51 hours
 * Main volunteer organizers (6) spent approximately 40 hours total planning the event. This included activities such as:
 * Creation and maintaining of event page
 * Inviting participants from throughout Northern California via Wikipedia talk pages to sign up and attend
 * Promoting the event through mailing lists and social media, including EventBrite
 * Organizing the venue - Wikimedia Foundation. Main organizers work full time at the venue, therefore time was minimal in getting it reserved.
 * Working with sponsor (WMF) to get snacks and drinks for the event (approximately $250 in kind donation)
 * Working with sponsor (WMF) to get equipment situated - extra computers (number unknown) for those without computers were provided.
 * A group of volunteers created a work list for the event (5 hrs) which was housed on Wikipedia.
 * Volunteer time at event (6 hrs)


 * Information resources
 * Participants were asked to bring their own books and publications.


 * Partners
 * Volunteers, most who work with the Wikimedia Foundation, were able to have WMF as their main sponsor. Little time was required to acquire this partnership.
 * WMF provided $250 in kind donation for food (all spent), some light staff time from the IT standpoint (hours unknown) and the venue.


 * Equipment
 * Loaner computers were needed and the Wikimedia Foundation was able to supply a few, and volunteers brought some as well (5)
 * Ethernet access if needed
 * Wifi password accessibility for guests
 * Appropriate powercords/strips

Outputs
All of this data is focused around contributions to the English Wikipedia article space.
 * Total number of participants : 36
 * Not all participants were accounted for at the end of the event, therefore this number is incomplete.


 * Number of experienced editors on English Wikipedia (those who made more than 100 edits before the event) : 13
 * Number of existing editors (editors with accounts before event): 25
 * Number of new editors to English Wikipedia (who made accounts day of event) : 12
 * Number of editors who actively edited in the article space during the event: 27
 * Bytes added on day of event by all participants: 31,184
 * We did not have a goal for bytes added.


 * Bytes removed by all participants: 18,661
 * Bytes added by new editors created: 6,000
 * Bytes removed by new editors created: 7,469
 * Bytes added at event by existing editors: 25,307
 * Bytes removed at event by existing editors: 11,192
 * Total of edits made at event: 255
 * New articles created, according to event page: 11
 * New articles created, according to WikiMetrics in the events 24 hour time period: 18
 * Articles improved (not newly created), according to event page: 22
 * Media uploaded during event (not including photographs of the event): 2

Outcomes

 * A pre nor a post survey was not done with participants. So we are unclear on if "fun" was had and if participants had an increased understanding of Wikipedia, it's sister projects, the mission, policies, etc.


 * Was content related to women's history improved?
 * After reviewing the content tracked by the event participants we can confirm that yes content was improved related to women's history. While not all of the articles fall under the inclusion standards for WikiProject Women's History, we can verify that content was improved upon regarding women's biographies and women's focused subject matters such as organizations, the arts, and concepts.
 * 15 articles related to women subjects were improved (does not include new articles)
 * 9 new articles related to women subjects were created


 * Have participants edited since the event?
 * One month (4-18-2012)
 * Collectively participants contributed a total of 249,893 bytes to English Wikipedia article space
 * Those edits were made by 16 participants (44% of participants total edited one month later)
 * Those editors made 1,542 edits total
 * 2 out of the 12 new accounts made at the event edited 1 month later. (17% of new editors edited 1 month)
 * Those 2 new accounts created at the event added 742 bytes of content (0.3% of total bytes added by all participants 1 month later)
 * Those 2 new accounts created removed 380 bytes of content
 * They averaged 61.8 bytes added
 * Those 2 new accounts totaled 38 edits
 * 14 of 23 existing editors edited 1 month later. (61% of existing)
 * Those 14 existing editors added 146,183 bytes (58% of total bytes added 1 month later)
 * Those 14 existing editors removed 87,559 bytes
 * They averaged 6,356 bytes added
 * Those 14 pre-event accounts totaled 826 edits (54% of all edits made)
 * Six months later (4-19-2012 to 10-19-2012)
 * Collectively participants contributed a total of 518,743 bytes of content
 * Total edits made 6 months later were 10,619
 * Those edits were made by 18 participants (53% of all participants)
 * 2 out of the 12 new accounts made at the event edited 6 months later. (no change, 17%)
 * Those 2 new accounts added 134 bytes of content (0.03% of all bytes by all editors 6 months later)
 * Those 2 new accounts removed 28 bytes of content
 * They averaged 134 bytes added
 * Those 2 new accounts totaled 4 edits (0.04% of total edits)
 * 17 of 23 existing editors edited 6 months later (74% of existing total)
 * Those 17 participants added 518,609 bytes (99% of total bytes)
 * Those 17 participants removed 369,755 bytes
 * They averaged 22548 bytes added
 * Those 17 participants totaled 10,615 edits (99.9% of total edits)


 * Was a follow-up event planned?
 * Yes, an additional event was scheduled to take place three months later. See here.

General notes
The organizers did a post-event written self evaluation after the event which is available here. There are many assumptions made in these lessons learned, including that new editors wanted more attention then received, and that experienced editors were needed to provide that support. They also assume that new editors liked working at stations, which are manned by experienced editors, to learn how to do specific tasks. We can only make assumptions, unless a follow-up survey is planned, and it was not.

They did acknowledge that they failed to track all event participants. The event was stated to have brought over 40 people, yet less than that were tracked on the event page on wiki.