Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Toronto/ArtAndFeminism March 4, 2017

Abusing WP talk conventions to alert you to this page (hope this works): please watchlist and edit! Artchivist1 (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Welcome table
Staffed by 1-2 people at a time - Deanna and Amy available, Amy to coordinate AGO staff/volunteers (will put out call for help asap if needed)
 * Maya Ben David has agreed to volunteer at the welcome table. -- Ella Dawn 	 04:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yay! Artchivist1 (talk) 15:25, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Proposed schedule (we can switch around - just a suggestion):
 * 12-1pm: Vanessa (library volunteer) with Amy and Maya as backup
 * 1-2pm: Danielle (library volunteer) with Amy and Deanna as backup
 * 2-3pm: Deanna with Amy as backup
 * 3-4pm: Maya with Amy as backup

Library table
Staffed by AGO library staff/volunteers

Editing tables/stations

 * Account creation
 * Citations
 * Image rights
 * Focus artists
 * Writing help
 * Followup help/Meta

Handouts

 * Overview/orientation handout (Amy to produce)
 * Followup/exit handout with info about further help (Amy to produce)
 * I have started to draft this - got as far as ″Thank you for joining us today. This event is intended to build community and to empower a greater diversity of people to feel comfortable editing Wikipedia.  If you need help to continue what you worked on today, or to respond to communications from other Wikipedia editors, please reach out to our volunteers ″ and then I need your advice about contact info for following up, because I tend to think this calls for a non-wiki mode of communication.  Teahouse and usernames are good unless the person is uncomfortable with wiki, which is the whole point.  Is any of you comfortable with your email being shared (I'm not assuming so)? - Artchivist1 (talk) 19:23, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that's a very generous gesture, and I agree that we should try to be as helpful as we can possibly be. I do have some reservations however; in principle I prefer to have all Wikipedia related discussions public, on my talk page. (Yes, I know I have emailed some of you, off-wiki). I can be contacted by email via Wikipedia, but I have a strong preference for contacting me via my talk page. I would suggest that those of us who are OK with corresponding with other editors via email are listed in on the project page with our wikipedia email link, which looks like this: Special:EmailUser/Mduvekot and a link to our talk which looks like this: User_talk:Mduvekot . I will update my user page with instructions on how to contact me. Mduvekot (talk) 00:28, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I like the special:emailuser idea - have a sneaking suspicion those links won't work on Dashboard though - does anyone have time to play with this? Since the Dashboard is so incorporated into the event (I even did a bit.ly for it), it makes sense that it would form part of the communication route, though it might not have the durability of a meetup page. - Artchivist1 (talk) 14:34, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, I've added links for myself on the Dashboard -- I will leave it to each of us to do likewise (talk or email as you're comfortable) and will refer to the Dashboard on the exit handout.  BTW I have not figured out how to make attractive links on the Dashboard! - Artchivist1 (talk) 17:35, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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Is this the official "Dashboard", or should we migrate discussion there? Seazzy (talk) 17:12, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I am still getting clear on the functioning of the dashboard but I think it is not intended for discussion - it's supposed to function as a user-friendly way to sign people in to the event. I have figured out how to add multiple facilitators so we can all edit the dashboard but it would still make sense to use this talk page as a drawing board. Artchivist1 (talk) 14:37, 21 February 2017 (UTC)