Hi Ambassadors,
I wanted to bring your attention to two great stories about our project that
have recently come out.
Georgetown Campus Ambassador Rob Pongsajapan and his coworkers at the Center
for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at GU have put together
a video of Professor Rochelle Davis talking about assigning her students to
write Wikipedia articles through the Public Policy Initiative as part of
their "Teaching Commons" site. Many thanks to Rob and crew! I encourage you
to watch the short video to see how excited professors are about our
project.
https://commons.georgetown.edu/teaching/examples/wikipedia-project/
Second, I pushed a blog post live on the Wikimedia Foundation's Community
blog today profiling our Montana State University pod, Mike Cline and Bonnie
McCallum. Bonnie and Mike have done an exceptional job this term, and I
encourage you all to read about the great stuff they've been starting on the
Bozeman campus:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/25/montana-campus-ambassadors-recruit-new…
I'm always on the lookout for great stories -- these will be sprinkled
throughout our final report to our funder -- so if you know of any, please
send them my way! I'm also happy to have you tell me you think you'd be a
great person to profile; don't be shy! If you've had a great interaction
with a student or if you know of any great work that you think is worth
highlighting, let me know.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Communications Associate - Public Policy Initiative
Wikimedia Foundation
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Ambassadors,
We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador
Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors
in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve
the Wikipedia Ambassadors.
WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to
KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold,
rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the
online survey http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_email<http://kwiksurveys.com/?u=WPAmbassador_email>
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!
Amy
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Amy Roth
Research Analyst (Public Policy
Initiative<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative>
)
Wikimedia Foundation
Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. - Panchatantra
Hi Ambassadors,
In our continued efforts to showcase the impact your work having on
Wikipedia, I wanted to draw your attention to a blog post we put out
today:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/11/berkeley-undergrad-gets-hooked-on-wiki…
The blog post features Kevin Gorman, an undergrad at UC Berkeley who's
taking the "Politics of Piracy" class. Kevin was really drawn to
Wikipedia once he created his user account for class, and he spends
his free time editing the content of articles about mushrooms and
patrolling newly created pages to ensure they meet Wikipedia's
policies. A big thank you goes out to all the Ambassadors who've
worked with Kevin, especially the UC Berkeley campus crew!
If you've worked with other students who have ventured into editing
non-class topics, please let me know who they are (off-list) so I can
continue showcasing your awesome Ambassadorial work!
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Communications Associate - Public Policy Initiative
Wikimedia Foundation
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Ambassadors,
We've heard from a few of you that it's hard to see the effect your
work is having, especially when individual students are unresponsive.
So I wanted to show you the attached chart. The chart tracks the
contributions, by month, of all students in the Public Policy
Initiative classes -- the students you are helping in class or
mentoring online. The chart measures bytes our students have
contributed to the article namespace alone (so it doesn't count talk
page content).
In short: last month, our students contributed 2.9 million bytes of
content to the English Wikipedia article namespace. That's the
equivalent of about 1,944 printed pages of work.
This incredible amount of high-quality contributions is due in large
part to your volunteer efforts -- the presentations you make in class,
the messages you exchange on-wiki with your mentees, the help you
provide in IRC. Our program is having a quite noteworthy impact on the
rate at which content on the English Wikipedia grows, and you are
front and center in that effort.
On behalf of the entire Public Policy team: THANK YOU! It would be
impossible to achieve this without you.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Communications Associate - Public Policy Initiative
Wikimedia Foundation
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org