2019:Quality/Documentation and quality process workshop
 | This is an Accepted submission for the Quality space at Wikimania 2019. |
Description
There are many issues with instructions on many Wikimedia projects which is leading to bad outcomes for new contributors, the wider community, unhelpful actions, lost contributors, poor community health and other issues.
A workshop will look at what could be done to encourage and build better instructions on Wikimedia projects.
I plan to run this is part of my work as part of the strategy process partnerships working group.
Quality Circle methods of building teams to make incremental quality improvement, will be discussed.
Relationship to the theme
This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:
4. Quality Education: Quality instructions may allow more contributors to build more and better content on Wikimedia projects.
17. Partnerships for the Goals: Better instructions may allow partnerships to have better outcomes.
Session outcomes
At the end of the session , the following will have been achieved:
An understanding of many of the issues related to quality instructions and some plans of what can be done to improve the situation. The outcomes will also be used as research for the strategy process partnerships working group.
Session leader(s)
- John Cummings
- Jim Hayes, facilitating
- Sean McBirnie
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:
- Workshop to identify and try to solve a problem
- Other
Requirements
The session will work best with these conditions:
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