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Today's Topics:

   1. WPCC - Need Volunteers (Sandra Ordonez)
   2. Meeting abstract (Tico wiki)

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:46:53 -0400
From: Sandra Ordonez <sordonez@wikimedia.org>
Subject: [ComProj] WPCC - Need Volunteers
To: Com Proj < comproj@lists.wikimedia.org>,  lise.meitner@hotmail.com
Message-ID: <462FCC4D.1050809@wikimedia.org>
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Hi guys,

I need help with Wikiproject Coordination. We need to:

1) Do a bit of research and draft a press release and translate it. (as
well as get quotes from volunteers, particularly Lisa, who is main contact.
2) Research academic/education journals to send to....and find contact
information
3) People that would be willing to actually pitch the story in their
respective countries.

As always, please email me directly if you are interested, or have any
comments.

Sandy

See info: (From Lisa Boer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WPCC

We have 19 Wikipedian volunteers so far and our first coordinated
project is underway: an instructor from the University of Minnesota is
working with us to enhance a freshman composition assignment where
groups of students collaborate to create a new Wikipedia article.  Our
volunteers will review draft versions in the students' userspace and
offer suggestions before these pieces get uploaded into the main
project, then if all goes according to plan we will honor the best group
effort with our project award the WikiPen.  Our goal is to offer
feedback that helps these students meet encyclopedic standards - we're
not here to do the assignments for them, but a few tips about reference
works and copyediting would probably help them be better students as
well as better Wikipedians.

Our project is open to all educational levels.  In order to maintain a
safe environment we plan to work primarily with teachers at the
pre-university level.  Instructors can look to our project for examples
of classroom assignments that have been successful in the past and for
tips on structuring lessons in ways that conform with site policies.
One interesting twist to this WikiProject is that some of
our experienced site volunteers are themselves students.