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

WMUK volunteers are skilled and capable

• High quality trainers recruited from community in the targeted areas attend Train the Trainers; up to 2 sessions - depending on resources, at least 10 attendees per session, 20 in total in a year (event page on wiki, gdoc)

Access to Wikimedia projects is increasingly available to all, irrespective of personal characteristics, background or situation

• At least two events supported per annum per trainer once they have attended the course (event pages on wiki / civi)

WMUK volunteers are highly diverse

• The number of volunteers (participants in the training events) moving from 'new' editors to more experienced as per WMF categories (Wikimetrics - once usernames captured - / civi). target=? (a part of our overall outreach event target)

The quantity of educational Open Content continues to increase (Wikimetrics - once usernames captured - / civi) target=? (a part of our overall outreach event target)

• Edit size contributions
• Number of pages edited/improved/created

Additionally:

• Quality of the WMUK training events by feedback forms from participants (feedback forms at events, then summary on wiki)

Notes:

A longer term outcome of this programme is increasing the number of UK editors/volunteers (via trained trainers delivering workshops) and increasing content (via newly trained people contributing to the project). However, looking at this programme in itself, the outcomes are getting volunteers trained as trainers, and them delivering training sessions.

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.