Topics for Impact Organizer Lab
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| Description | A 9-week training course focused on designing campaigns to address Topics for Impact. The Beta Cohort will run Oct-Dec 2022, recruiting a diverse set of organizers with an interest in Sustainability and Climate Change topics. We will carry out a 3-year impact evaluation, utilizing both cross-group and in-group (pre-/post-) comparisons, and looking at outcomes like campaign/event quality + reach, associated edits (# and quality) and retention, as well as outcomes related to networks and skills. |
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| Primary recommendation | 8. Identify Topics for Impact |
| Secondary recommendation(s) | 1. Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement • 10. Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt • 6. Invest in Skills and Leadership Development |
| Regional focus | Global |
| Language focus | The beta course will be conducted in English, with live interpretation support, and options for submitting coursework in other languages. |
| Links | Meta page coming soon. Course will be offered via the WikiLearn platform (https://learn.wiki/). See also: An Organizer’s Perspective Parts series (3 parts) on Diff - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/05/part-i-anyone-can-edit-is-not-a-strategy-for-growing-the-wikimedia-movement/ |
| Stage | Pilot (e.g., testing idea or model) |
| Seeking collaboration? | Yes |
| Seeking collaboration with | Support from affiliates to encourage organizers connected to them to participate in the Lab and to follow up on their experience. |
| Collaboration needs | Replicate/Adapt our activity somewhere else • Exchange to learn from each other • Talk about our idea • Partnership to approach a non-Wikimedia entity • Co-design a new activity |
| Contact person | BVershbow_(WMF) |
| Wikimedia affiliation | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Wikimedia Foundation team | Community Programs |