Dear Wikimedians,
I hope you are having a good start of the year. I’m writing on behalf of
the organizing team to announce and invite you all to the first EduWiki
Week.
The idea of EduWiki Week comes from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_Week>,
a virtual celebration event the Education team at Wikimedia Foundation had
organized during the 8th birthday of Wikidata.
EduWiki Week is planned as a virtual festival and will be celebrated from
21st February 2022 to 25th February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with
asynchronous activities, live interviews, and a final synchronous session.
This is our first time organizing a virtual event of this format! The
celebration has three main objectives: to connect our volunteers across the
globe with each other and with leaders in the education sector; to foster
collaboration within our movement; and to promote the work done in
education in our movement.
Everyone is invited to participate! How can you do it?
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Asynchronous Celebrations
Local events organized by affiliates and volunteers for their community
members, teachers, and other stakeholders in the education sector. You can
organize interviews, edit-a-thons, virtual carnivals focused on the theme
of education.
-> To participate, add your event/campaign to this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022/Asynchronous_Celebrations>
here with a description of the event. Use the hashtag #EduWikiWeek2022 on
social media posts.
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Live Interviews
5 live interviews focused on different topics related to global education
-> To participate, Watch the session on our Facebook page YouTube channel.
The schedule of the interviews will be available soon.
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Community Showcase and Connection
A 4 hours long synchronous event to be held on 23rd February, 2022.
This includes 9 lightning talks for 20 minutes each and an hour-long
mingling session for connections, networking, and sending wikiloves.
(Mingling session will not be broadcasted)
-> To present a lightning talk, submit your proposals before the 30th
January on Meta-Wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showcase_and_Connection>.
It can be a live or pre-recorded presentation. To attend this event,
registration will be open from 5th February until 18th February.
You can watch it Live on Facebook and YouTube. We’ll make the recordings
available on Meta-Wiki a few weeks after the event as well. While waiting
for the EduWiki Week, enjoy the interviews from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_Week>.
More information coming soon, Stay tuned.
We hope everyone is as enthusiastic about this event as we are!
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with the
organizing team through education(a)wikimedia.org
Thanks,
Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian
Languages), Will (WikiEducation), Kashyap, Elfego, and Sailesh (Wikimedia
Foundation).
*Florencia Guastavino*
Asistente de Proyectos. Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos
Project Assistant. Education and Human Rights Program