Dear friends and colleagues,
My apologies for yet another email. I hope you are all doing well. Last
year, during Wikidata's 8th birthday we planned a week-long celebration to
highlight the importance of using Wikidata in education
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_Week>
and the community members involved in it. We interviewed 8 volunteers and
affiliates staff and learned how their work creates an impact on the
movement.
This year we are planning to scale up the initiative to involve other
Wikimedia projects that are used in education and highlight the various
stakeholders involved in them. We came up with the idea of hosting an
“EduWiki Week”. EduWiki Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2021> will be a
virtual celebration of Free Knowledge in education, showcasing the value of
the Wikimedia projects and the amazing work of our EduWiki community and
allied organisations.
EduWiki Week will take place from 25th October 2021 to 29th October 2021.
It will be a 4-day long virtual celebration! We are planning to have
workshops, lectures, and various fun activities scheduled for that week.
This will be a great opportunity to strengthen our network, learn from each
other, and meet new people!
To make this event a success, we need your help. We are looking for
education community members, and affiliate partners to collaborate with us
and help us plan and design this event.
These events can be:
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Interviews with experts, partners, community members
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Workshops
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Featured education community member of the month showcase
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EduWiki Teacher of the Year award!
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Regional meetups!
If you are interested in joining the organizing committee, please write to
me at spatnaik[at]wikimedia[dot]org <spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org> answering the
following questions before 14th September 2021. We expect a time commitment
of no more than 5-6 hours for the next few months.
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Are you an education staff member of Wikimedia Affiliates? An EWOC team
member? Or an individual with a history of education organizing? Tell us
about yourself and your work and interest in Wikimedia in Education.
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Why do you want to be a part of this committee? Do you want to lead any
specific part of the event?
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Can you manage the time commitment? What time of day (UTC) works best
for synchronous calls for you?
Best!
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>