2014 Activity Plan/Train the Trainers

Lead member of staff

Katie Chan

Indicative budget amount

£24,000

Description and overall rationale

As a part of Wikimedia UK's remit to support Wikimedia outreach projects and develop volunteer skills, we continue to deliver the Train the Trainers programme where volunteer Wikimedians are taught to deliver effective training. With ambition to build our outreach programme, there is a need to continue delivery of this strand of work, particularly focusing on geographical areas that lack trainers.

Our aim here is to increase the number and quality of WMUK’s events, eventually leading to more UK based editors. This area feeds into other programme activities where we are delivering outreach events, e.g. Program 2. Better quality training should result in more retention in these trained at the Wikimedia events.

For the 2013 plan, please see here.

Timelines - i.e. what happens quarter by quarter

• Sessions planned:
• Wikimania session:

Success criteria and Metrics - overall and quarter by quarter breakdown if relevant

Goals

Quality of the WMUK training events increased:

• High quality trainers recruited from community in the targeted areas; up to 2 sessions - depending on resources, at least 10 attendees per session (event page on wiki, gdoc)
• Participants become and remain active trainers - supporting at least 2 Wikimedia UK events per year each for 5 years (civi)
• Events delivered professionally by the trainers (feedback forms at events, then summary on wiki)

Increase participation of new editors:

• Across different outreach activities, Wikimedia training events have more editors who remain active (measured on individual events)

Risks

• Trained people not used enough leading to high costs.
• Insufficient breadth of trainer in terms of geography or background.
• We cannot find enough people of sufficient quality to train.
• Those who have received training do not volunteer as trainers at our events.
• The expected quality is not maintained.