Submissions:2016/General Audience Outreach has limited outcome: Strategy of Offline Activity

Title

Theme

Community, Outreach

Academic Peer Review option

n

Type of submission

presentation

Author

Addis Wang

E-mail address

addiswang94gmail.com

Username

AddisWang

Affiliation

Wikimedia User Group China

Abstract

There are all kinds of offline outreach organized by the local communities around world about Wikimedia movement. General audience outreach is very popular and easy to do among all these procedures, especially for who has not much experience of hosting offline event. General audience outreach has many limits, despite it has more or less necessity.

In the presentation, I will analysis my 7-year-experience of offline outreach in China and U.S., to discuss why single session, general audience outreach has limited outcome, as well as how can we avoid problems in this kind of event. Besides that, I will talk about strategy offline activity and how to select the type of event that fit your community.

Length of presentation

15-20 minutes

Special schedule requests

Preferred room size

25-50

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

yes

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