Edit-a-thon

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An ICANNWiki Edit-a-thon is typically a sponsored community event held at ICANN and other Internet Governance fora. The event is a chance for conference attendees to collectively engage in content creation and knowledge building. Typically, the event takes place at a defined location and time with attendees bringing their own laptops. The goal is to refine, edit and expand upon topics relevant to the attendees. Newer editors are given the chance to learn new wiki editing skills.

A common goal of an Edit-a-thon is to expand or highlight commonly marginalized actors or ideas within any given topic. Since some wikis rely on a smaller group of editors, an internal bias may arise. Edit-a-thons work to correct that bias or strengthen content that may be important, but has been somehow overlooked. ICANNWiki is a 501(c)(3) non-Profit, and all membership contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S.

Edit-A-Thon Sponsors[edit | edit source]

ICANN 54: Amazon
ICANN 53: Iron Mountain, Dominios Latinoamerica, SSIG

Articles Created & Updated[edit | edit source]

Conference	Article	Classification
ICANN 54	Aftab Siddiqui	Category:People
ICANN 54	Domain hack
ICANN 54	Domain Privacy
ICANN 54	Evgeny Morozov	Category:People
ICANN 54	.ga	ccTLD
ICANN 54	ICANN
ICANN 54	Internet of Things
ICANN 54	Internet Governance
ICANN 54	Karel Douglas	Category:People
ICANN 54	Laureen Kapin	Category:People
ICANN 54	Lawrence Olawale-Roberts	Category:People
ICANN 54	MicroBoss Technologies	Private Company
ICANN 54	NamesCon	Conference
ICANN 54	.ps	ccTLD
ICANN 54	PSL
ICANN 54	Zonedb
ICANN 53	Daniel Marshall	Category:People
ICANN 53	Chalmers & Associates	Private Company
ICANN 53	Cross Community Working Party on ICANN's Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights‎
ICANN 53	.genting	Brand TLD
ICANN 53	Judith Hellerstein	Category:People
ICANN 53	New gTLD Brand Applications‎	Brand TLD
ICANN 53	NIC Argentina	Category:Registries
ICANN 53	Niels ten Oever‎	Category:People
ICANN 53	Osama Tamimi	Category:People
ICANN 53	.py	ccTLD
ICANN 53	Raitme Citterio	Category:People
ICANN 53	.skype	Brand TLD
ICANN 53	Top Level Design	Private Company
ICANN 53	.vistaprint	Brand TLD

Registrants[edit | edit source]

ICANN 53 - Edit-a-thon[edit | edit source]

Jmariet (talk) 16:05, 16 March 2015 (PDT)
Chalmersport (talk) 9:53, 6 May 2015 (NZDT)
CrystalBlood (talk) 17:59, 1 June 2015 (PDT)
Nielsto (talk) 06:07, 2 June 2015 (PDT)
Dustin Phillips (talk) 15:09, 2 June 2015 (PDT)
Pwilson.apnic.net (talk) 16:51, 2 June 2015 (PDT) (hope to make it!)
Siena Perry (talk) 10:56, 19 June 2015 (PDT)

Edit-a-thon - Nairobi[edit | edit source]

The ICANNWiki Swahili Edit-a-thon is an on-going editing and translation event that takes place in various venues throughout Nairobi, Kenya. The first event occurred on June 06, 2016 and the second occurred June 17, 2016.

June 17, 2016 Report[edit | edit source]

The aim of this workshop was to translate and contribute to articles through a one day Edit-a-thon session.  The Edit-a-thon managed to attract 16 participants (most of whom had attended the previous ICANNWiki workshop that was held earlier on 6th June). Participants worked on a minimum of at-least 5 articles each (a total of 100 articles for the day were completed).However, following the technical hitch with the ICANNWiki Swahili server, only a few articles were uploaded. At the end of the Edit-a-thon, ICANNWiki Ambassadors Certificates were issued to the participants for their efforts. A group photo of the Edit-a-thon community was also taken.

June 06, 2016 Report[edit | edit source]

The aim of this workshop was to create a pool of ICANNWiki Swahili translators and contributors through capacity building in Kenya. The workshop managed to attract over 20 participants (mostly university students in the field of ICT and media). Participants watched ICANNWiki tutorials/videos as an introduction. The two facilitators showed how to navigate ICANNWiki, responsible ICANNWiki Publishing, Copyright issues, and benefits of getting involved in the ICANNWiki community. The feedback we got from the participants was that the Wiki provides them with a platform to learn about and participate in wider issues of Internet governance. Following an Internet outage at the event venue, the Edit-a-thon did not promptly take place forcing participants to resort to working offline on their articles for later uploading on the portal. Participants were able to request for accounts even from their mobile devices and expressed interest in being part of the Wiki.

12 participants expressed interest to get involved on the Swahili platform with the remaining 8 insisting on working on the English platform.