Hi Terry,

I understand your comments, and I agree that online workshops may not work for senior participants. In this project, the workshops, apart from training a relatively small group, are meant to provide feedback, consultation, and networking.

However, the final product - the "text book" may suit a range of Wiki education scenarios, and hopefully help people leading / teaching wiki skills to diverse groups.

I also suppose that this particular project is directed mainly at young people. I underlined the fact that in my country, no level of school or university education includes media education, internet literacy, open vs closed data and so on.

Most young people can use social media - but using reliable sources, contributing to open access knowledge and visual documenation, knowing how to use materials submitted by other people - is a different matter. The goal of this particular project is to hopefully raise the awareness and skill level there, and to prepare teaching and encouragement material that can help. 

Best regards, 

Marta M Moraczewska

śr., 16 mar 2022, 19:04 użytkownik Terry Jackson <info@thisweekmedia.com> napisał:
Hi Jane

Anything to help publicise Wikipedia training and we'd like to use it ourselves to tackle digital exclusion. The aim is to create incentives for 55+ year-olds to attend local community-group digital training sessions across the Good Things Foundation Online Centres.Network.

Having recently become a network member, I'm looking at new and innovative means of attracting new Wikipedia editors. For example, there are 279 Civil Parishes in Cambridgeshire.all of which have Wikipediia articles e.g. Cottenham.

Encouraging senior citizens with in-depth local knowledge to expand these articles through local Wikipedia "clubs" is something I'd like to pursue and I'm keen to know of any other enterprise like it in the UK.

How might the CIG-E-Forum be used to float this idea? Meanwhile, I'm working my way through https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczewska/Creators_and_Wikipedia#Endorsements and have Cc'd my colleague Andrew Zolnai for his thoughts.

"The [Grants} project links a series of targeted workshops, prepared from the point of view of creative professionals, training them in a range of Wiki skills - combined with a plan to prepare an "all-in-one" textbook/manual, explaining licenses, OTRS (this may be especially useful), reuse and many other basics.".

Essentially, our thoughts are with those who are digitally excluded through no fault of their own but still have much to contribute. @ online workshops at this stage would be counter-productive at this stage.

Kind regards, Terry

On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 at 11:12, Daniels, Jane <jdaniels@cardiffmet.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

 

I would like to ask if you could post your messages to:

https://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CIG-E-FORUM.html

 

Here in the UK we are trying to raise awareness of all things Wikipedia/Media/Data amongst our cataloguing & metadata workforce as this gives us the perfect opportunity to create, share, enrich and maintain metadata outside of the restricted access MARC environment.

 

It would be really great if these messages from your group could raise awareness of the possibilities.

 

It might also engender a bit more support for structured training and workforce development.

 

Many thanks,

 

Jane

 

 

 

 

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Hi Everyone,

 

I would like to interest those of you working with GLAM institutions, but also with individuals who are artists, photographers, filmmakers and other creators, in a project "Creators in Wikipedia".

 

The project links a series of targeted workshops, prepared from the point of view of creative professionals, training them in a range of Wiki skills - combined with a plan to prepare an "all-in-one" textbook/manual, explaining licenses, OTRS (this may be especially useful), reuse and many other basics. This would have an English version and files letting people easily prepare translations into other languages/localise examples used.

 

The idea is also to introduce and connect this group of users to existing Wikipedia initiatives - such as Art+Feminism, Women in Red, Wiki loves SDGs, Wiki For Human Rights and Documenting Ukraine's Cultural Heritage.

 

 

Please let me know if you have comments, ideas, or suggestions. If you consider the project worthwhile, please endorse here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Marta_Malina_Moraczewska/Creators_and_Wikipedia#Endorsements

 

Also do let me know if you would like to take part in the project - as a workshop guest (they will be partially run in English), to contribute to the "textbook"/manual material, or to participate in its review. The program is mainly addressed at audiences from CEE countries but hopefully is adaptable to other uses.

 

Thanks for reading! Hope to hear your thoughts.

 

Best wishes!

Marta Malina Moraczewska

 

 

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