Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/Event Toolkit/Check List

WIKI LOVES WOMEN EDIT-A-thon CHECK LIST

Choose focus topic
Decide the focus of your event. Establish a list of articles to work on. You may list or pick up suggestions from this page : Wiki Loves Women/Suggested articles

Find a venue
We encourage you to use a free, public space for your event. This might be in libraries, museums, community led co-working spaces, and universities. Look into local public institutions and ask if they would be interested in partnering with you or adding the Edit-a-thon to their list of programs for the year.

Secure the date and time
This is an easy one. Consider your audience: schools often choose a weekday like Friday. Once you have a date and a time, the next step is to find a dope person experienced in Wikipedia who can help to lead trainings at your edit-a-thon.

Submit your event details on the event page
This is the page WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/Current activity

Request account creator status for the event
Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day by one person. Encourage your event participants to register an account on Wikipedia prior before they come. This learning pattern helps to explain it and offers 5 ways to navigate the issue. You can also request permission to create accounts on Wikipedia so that you can do it the day of. To request account creator status :

Register your event on the dashboard
The Dashboard is a tool we use to track edits to articles during edit-a-thons. You can find the Wiki Loves Women dashboard program here : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wiki_loves_women_2018/overview Please register your event under the Wiki Loves Women program. You’ll need your Wikipedia username and password that you just created to sign-in to the Dashboard.

Add list of articles suggestions on the dashboard
Add the articles you intend to work on, or that you want to suggest your participants to work on to the dashboard. You may even consider assigning them to certain attendees.

Get social
Use the hashtag #wikiloveswomen to share your stories or your organizing work. Publish info on twitter and on Facebook. Current handles: http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen and http://www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen

Invite
Invite participants and inform press (by email).

Take pictures
During the event. Then upload the best pictures to c:Category:Wiki Loves Women - Events

After the event
Write a small report for this page : WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/Current activity. Do not hesitate adding pictures of participants.