On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 18:56, Hisham
<hmundol@wikimedia.org> wrote:
That's not accurate. The dates are as follows: It was concluded in all but 1 class of Symbiosis School of Economics a few weeks ago (because the assignements were concluded.) It continues in 1 class at this college and at 1 class at the SNDT Women's University. We asked College of Engineering Pune to stop the program in their classrooms last week. It is still being continued at this college by 1 professor nevertheless.
Probably the same could have been highlighted enough at Signpost. The signpost heading conveys its closed down.
There is going to be a through analysis of this pilot. The links you are referring are not plans for a rollout; they are just an invite to see if any existing community members in other cities could invest the kind of time (during work hours and in classrooms) that Campus Ambassadors need to do.
Thanks for clarifying, helps much.
At none of the colleges did we push this through the top management.
Well I cant help point CoEP where the director was much excited about the program and without his push directly / indirectly, I wonder if 800+ students would have voluntarily signed up. I will never agree if anyone says 800+ students voluntarily asked/agreed for Wikipedia assignments without staff / whoever else asking them to do so.
Having said that we should have looked at much lower student numbers.
Agree
I didn't get the comment on even and odd semesters
Well it was my suggestion/opinion if you are planning next roll out in Jan. Odd semesters in Indian colleges are longer ones July- Dec typically and give time for students / staff to do extra things. Even semesters are shorter Jan-May (April in many cases) so the duration for anything in colleges are limited in even sem. This is the reason why you will find most extra-curriculars happening in odd-sem. I am not sure if we did a time audit of the pilot, but it took very late to have students start editing and they were stopped almost in 2-3 weeks. We may not have that much time to engage with students / faculty on even semesters.
It is good to have CAs who have reasonable experience in editing wikipedia.
Fully agree. Having said that, given the relatively small community size in India, and the amount of face-to-face class time that Campus Ambassadors need to put in, there will be a number of CAs who will be newbies. We must however amend our selection and training criteria for them going forward.
I would say make CAs as wikipedians with atleast 500+ edits on en.wiki to give them a flavor of complexities in enwiki before they help out others. In other words, start early on CA's get more commitment early on, that before they go ahead and preach("teach") they practice("edit") enough.