2019:Community Growth/Business 101 for community growth
 | This is an Accepted submission for the Growth space at Wikimania 2019. |
Description
Women in Red was founded in July 2015 at Wikimedia Mexico City. It started with two people and an idea. It is now made up of 355 members on English Wikipedia; plus there are 22 other language versions of Women in Red. There are 655 people on our mailing list. There are 6,263 Twitter followers, and we update our accounts on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram. We have >6,000 posts on our talkpage. We run 6 virtual editathons/month and we support many in-person events, which have led to the creation of >80,000 articles since we were established. In this session we will share the business side of what we are doing for recruitment, retention, and promotion and our future plans.
Relationship to the theme
The organisers of the community growth space believe that the space will address the following Sustainable Development Goals:
- 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- 10 Reduced inequalities
- 17 Partnerships for the goals
This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:
This sessions will address how we are reducing inequalities through innovative business methods, a description of our infrastructure, and partnership development.
Relationship to the space
The organisers of the space and the community have identified a number of topics they wish to address in this space. Please explain how your proposal its into these topic areas.
As a reminder, the proposed topics are listed at 2019:Community Growth
This session will address the topics of the Growth space in the following manner:
The session will address our efforts with:
- Recruitment, activation and retention: online and offline strategies
- Technology work
- Exploiting (Wiki)data
- On-wiki engagement
- Off-wiki engagement
- Newcomer experiences and safe space
- Supporting diversity
- Learning from outside our movement
- Existing on a budget-to-date of zero
Session outcomes
At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved: Attendees will:
- Understand the business decisions involved with the development of Women in Red
- Understand our recruitment and retention methods
- Understand how our social media activities have led to our success
- Understand how to engage the community through activities, invitations, rewards, and a safe space for communicating.
Session leader(s)
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- rosiestep.wiki@gmail.com
- Rosiestep
- Co-founder, WikiProject Women in Red[1]
- Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University[2]
- Founder, WikiProject Women Writers[3]
- Vice-president, Wikimedia District of Columbia[4]
- Co-founder, WikiWomen's User Group
- Co-founder, WikiConference North America User Group
- Member, Affiliations Committee[5]
- Member, movement strategy Community Health Working Group[6]
- Adnin on en:wiki, 150K edits, 2000 DYKs
- Citizen, United States
- Knight, Republic of Serbia
- Roger Bamkin
- Victuallers
- Co-founder, WikiProject Women in Red[7]
- Co-inventor of QRpedia
- 3rd Wikipedian in Residence (first British)
- Founding Chair of Wikimedia UK as a charity, with employees & office
- Co-founder of the first Wikipedia Town (Monmouthpedia)
- taught Wikipedia based module to MSc students
- Organised First 1000 article multilingual contest
- Adnin on en:wiki, 100K edits, 500 DYKs, 14K pictues
- Citizen, United Kingdom
Session type
Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:
- Conference presentation
Requirements
The session will work best with these conditions:
- Room:
- Classroom or lecture hall
- Project and at least two screens, one to be used for the slidedeck and the other for Skyping-in Roger Bamkin if he is unable to attend in person. A twitter feed would help others to remotely contribute.
- Podium
- Audience:
- 30-50 (in the room) We would encourage others to join us via web feed and twitter)
- Recording:
- Recording is fine - a live feed would be ideal to allow others (e.g.Roger to contribute)
- Time requested:
- 30 minutes.
Relationship with the organisers of the space
The organisers of the community growth space wish to provide any necessary support to presenters and participants that they may need and also wish to have an active role in shaping the content of the space to maximise the benefit of all attendees. Please let us know if you would appreciate any help, and if you consent to constructive suggestions from the organiser team that would allow the largest amount of people to share and benefit from each other's contributions.
- I consent to the organisers of the space contacting me to discuss alternative ways to present my knowledge (for example, merging two proposals into a common presentation, a panel debate instead of a lightning talk, etc.), or ways to modify and improve my proposal (for example by ensuring a gender diversity on panels) : YES
- I consent to my proposal being proposed to organisers of other spaces if it would be a good cross-over topic or if it fits better into the other space's scope: YES