User:John Cummings/WIR

Hi all

UNESCO will run a 100 person Women in Red workshop in English and French on the 8th March in Paris along with an online event promoted to 100s of partner organisation and 2.9 million followers on social media. This will hopefully bring in a lot of new contributors to Women in Red, including many experts, however Women in Red is currently mainly set up for existing Wikimedia contributors.

Currently Women in Red is set up for experienced editors and new editors taking part in in person training. To make Women in Red more usable by new contributors, I'm thinking about if following changes could be made, some will be suitable for main project pages and some for the page for the event.

Since there are 10 changes I suggest each one is discussed in its section rather than having a huge thread at the bottom.

Provide an overview of the activities available on the front page of Women in Red

Opportunity

Increase the likelyhood of new people completing a task by providing a list of options available and the estimated time it will take to complete them. Some additional activities that can be added to the list are listed below.

Publish for review

Problem

New users creating articles from scratch is a common activity and often leads to the articles being nominated for deletion, this can significantly harm editor retention rates and increases the amount of work for other Women in Red editors. The quality of articles is generally lower for people learning how to write articles from online instructions rather than in person workshops.

Solution

Create a new space on Women in Red for users to submit drafts for review by experienced editors before publishing,similar to Articles for Creation but specific to Women in Red. This will:

• Reduce the likelihood of articles getting deleted
• Provide a new mechanism for collaboration between new users and existing users
• Increase new article quality.
• Potentially improve editor retention

Implementation

• Create a draft space on Women in Red, people simply type the name of the person they want to create a draft about and it starts the page and loads in Visual Editor (working deminstration below). All pages would be at WP:WikiProject Women in Red/Draft/(name of article) and kept track of with Special:PrefixIndex/WP:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Draft/ (slightly modified link below to hide page name prefixes). This will remove almost all additional steps and barriers for new users to create a draft article and allow for easy monitoring of drafts.

Type the name of the article you want to start in the box and press Start article draft

To see all articles in the draft space click here

Clearer pathway to learn how write Wikipedia

Problem

There will be many new contributors coming to the Women in Red pages during the event (and presumably at other times as well) however there is currently no signposting for new contributors to learn how the start editing Wikipedia. This will be especially useful for online campaigns to get people to start editing Wikipedia. where Women in Red will be the start point for people editing Wikipedia.

Solution

Provide a clear signpost in the Women in Red menu to learn how to edit Wikipedia

Implementation

Learn how to get started, VE starter guide, video on starting with Wikipedia, Teahouse, Women in Red talk page

Suggest a list

Opportunity

Many people with knowledge of suitable Redlists (including people taking part in this event) will have neither time or the knowledge to create fully formed Redlists.

Solution

Create a central page to recommend lists of women with each new list being a section on the page that can then be processed into a redlist later on.

Implementation

This would be done using a form that uses FormWizard. The wikitext produced by the form would be:

===Name of list===

Description

* [URL link]

Suggest women

Opportunity

Many people know women who should have a Wikipedia article but don't.

Solution

Create a central list of suggested women would help to capture a wide range of people's knowledge on a wide range of subjects (similar to suggest a list). This could be used for social media campaign questions like "which women deserve Wikipedia articles?"

Implementation

Create a central crowdsourced list of women on a single page who should have a Wikipedia article. Users fill out form using FormWizard. The Wikitext output would look like this:

*'''[[Name of person]]'': Description, what they did, who they were, what makes them important. Link (URL) to information 1, 2, 3. Suggested by John Cummings (talk) 13:02, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Suggest a resource

Opportunity

People coming to Women in will likely have a lot of knowledge on a subject but may not have the time to exhaust the usefulness of the resources they are knowledgable about.

Solution

Make Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Resources more prominent (currently you have to click a link that says view module).

Implementation

You could possibly create a form using FormWizard https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FormWizard

Create and improve articles using existing Open License text

Opportunity

There is a huge amount of open license text available suitable for use on Women in Red including by UNESCO. General instructions are available to reuse and measure page views of open license text from any sources at Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia

Solution

Create a section on Women in Red for open license text with clear instructions on how to reuse open license text.

Implementation

A list on the resources section of Women in Red with an easy way to recommend resources and instructions from Wikipedia:WikiProject United Nations/Open Access text possibly including a FormWizard form.

Translations

Problem

Many people are able to speak more than one language but there is no clear pathway to start a translation of an article in the scope of Women in Red

Solution

Have a page on Women in Red for translations

Implementation

I don't know

Suggest a dataset

Opportunity

It is likely that the people coming to Women in Red who have knowledge of lists of women may also have knowledge of data related to women.

Solution

This information does not fit exactly within the scope of Women in Red but does fit within the scope of Wikidata.

Implementation

Have a link with instructions to the Wikidata Data Import Hub

Link to Who's Knowledge photo competition

Opportunity

The Whos Knowledge photography competition will offer another way of contributing to Women in Red

Solution

Have a link on the website to the compettion