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Welcoming Vahid Masrour to the WMF education team
by Tighe Flanagan 11 May '16

11 May '16

Cross posting for the Collab list -- Vahid will be joining our monthly call this Monday so you can meet him over Google Hangout Reminder: the May collab meeting will be *Monday, May 16, at 1800 UTC*. A link to the hangout and an agenda will be shared in advance. -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM Subject: Welcoming Vahid Masrour to the WMF education team To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear education colleagues, I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of the WMF education team, Vahid Masrour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)>. Vahid joins as our Community Capacity Manager, and will be working with groups like the Wikipedia Education Collaborative <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…> and other global education program leaders and affiliates to make sure they have the support they need to be successful. Vahid will be working remotely from Quito, Ecuador for his first few months before moving with his family to San Diego. A little more about Vahid in his own words: World citizen, with a strong experience in South America, I have resided in > 6 countries so far, and plan to keep on moving. I am keenly interested in > transformation of educational processes using technology as a lever. I have > been part of the Ecuador User Group since its inception (2013), as the > education program specialist, and am a firm believer that “Knowledge is as > wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is > incumbent upon everyone.” > Originally trained as a psychologist, I’ve been learning about community > development through development projects and volunteer service. The overlap > of my interests in education, technology and community development now > finds a peculiarly interesting expression through my work at the WMF, where > I can now serve by enabling a global community’s efforts towards the > “growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational > content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to > the public free of charge”. Please join me in welcoming Vahid to the education team (on-list or on-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMasrour_(WMF)>)! Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Want to join a grants committee?
by Tighe Flanagan 01 May '16

01 May '16

Sharing this with the Collab list. My colleagues in Community Resources would love to see some education experts involved in their grants committees if anyone is interested! Cheers, Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:34 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Want to join a grants committee? To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! The Community Resources team is now recruiting committee members to support the launch of two new grants programs [1]. The Project Grants Committee will review and advise on projects that promote new experiments and sustain ideas that work. - Program launches July 1, 2016 with an open call for new grant proposals. - Up to USD 100,000 for projects up to 12 months. Submissions accepted quarterly. - Interested in joining? Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Quarterly/Committee/Orientat… - Submit your candidacy by July 15, 2016 to participate in the first round. The Conference Support Committee will review and advise on large conferences and events. - Program launches July 1, 2016. - Submissions accepted monthly. - Interested in joining? Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Committee/Orientation - Submit your candidacy by June 1, 2016 to participate in the launch. Why should you serve on a grants committee? - Make a big difference by supporting applicants and grantees that are doing projects to improve content and increase participation across the Wikimedia movement. - Build yours skills and experience by participating in our innovative participatory grantmaking programs. - Interact with volunteers from all over the world. Do you know somebody who you think would be perfect for this role? - We love referrals and want to build diverse committees! Please encourage them to join. Cheers, Alex [1] You can read more about the launch of WMF’s redesigned grant programs here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple… -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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IEG proposals relevant to the Education Collab
by Netha Hussain 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hello all, I found that there are three IEG proposals for the first round of 2016 which are relevant to education program leaders. 1. Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_as_a_pedagogical_tool 2. Curation of courses and resources on Wikiversity: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Curation_of_courses_and_resource… 3. Exploratory research: Creating curated e-books with Wikimedia content : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Exploratory_research:_creating_%… As program leaders and collab members, we might be able to share valuable feedback on the proposal pages. Regards Netha -- Dr. Netha Hussain Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com <http://nethahussain.blogspot.com>swethaambari.wordpress.com <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*

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Fwd: [cultural-partners] Finding the most viewed Wikipedia articles on education
by Shani 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

See John's msg. Maybe someone can help..? Cheers, Shani. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "john cummings" <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> Date: 21 Apr 2016 15:06 Subject: [cultural-partners] Finding the most viewed Wikipedia articles on education To: "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination" < cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch> Cc: Hi all I'm doing some work with colleagues from the education sector at UNESCO to look at improving some of the most viewed education articles on English language Wikipedia. I'm trying to use TreeViews to get information on what are the most viewed articles in Category:Education, unfortunately such large categories just crash my browser, it means I will have to split the query up into at least 50-100 smaller queries. Does anyone know of a less manual way around this? Ideally the output would be spreadsheet of the article title and the number of page views of the article for a 30, 60 or 90 period in the recent past. I will use Treeviews if it is the only way but I'd really love to save myself from half a day of data entry. I imagine this would also be useful for people working with other organisations for other subjects. Thanks John _______________________________________________ Cultural-Partners mailing list Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for permission before forwarding emails off-list.

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Collab Monthly Meeting & Highlight of the Month
by Shani 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Dear Collab members, It was lovely meeting all of you in Stockholm! Hope you are all well and had some time to rest. :) We'd like to resume our monthly meetings, as well as "highlight of the month" recording - *1 - Monthly hangout meetings - * Please fill out the doodles <http://doodle.com/poll/gizcrdfipieunr5y> with the options most comfortable to you for both April & May *by this Thursday (April 7th) @ midnight*. We'd like to have the April meeting sooner rather than later (that's the reason for the deadline) and would like to save a date for May as well. *2 - "highlight of the month" - * We need *2 volunteers* who would like their program / initiative to be featured - one for April and one of May. Please reply to this email if you'd like to be one. See you all soon, :) Shani.

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Education team update to the Collab
by Tighe Flanagan 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Hello, Collab Colleagues :) I just wanted to send a general update to this group, and a long overdue follow up after our face-to-face meeting in Stockholm. First of all, I want to offer another another round of thanks to everyone who participated in Stockholm, and a special thanks to Sara from WMSE for making sure things ran so smoothly. I also want to thank Shani for stepping up and keeping us on track for our next few monthly calls. It's important to keep these regular forums going, and it's great to have support from you all to make sure it gets done :) Through our time together in Stockholm we identified (and captured in the graphic recording <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_in_the_Collab_4.JPG>) three main things we wanted to work on, as well as short, mid and longterm goals: (1) Dashboard, (2) Communications and (3) Mentoring. I haven't been able to get these on Phabricator since I've been a bit swamped. With the drastic downsizing of my team of 4 to currently one person, a lot of my efforts have shifted to trying to staff up my team again. I haven't been able to monitor Phabricator as closely as I'd like.* If anyone has any interest in helping to organize our work coming out of Stockholm on Phabricator and on wiki, please reach out to me :)* Also, a new blog post (draft here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129511>) about our Stockholm meeting and next steps as a group is being finalized. We should see it published soon! Thanks to Melina, Paola and Sara for capturing and sharing our work with the wider Movement. Best wishes to you all, Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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swag :)
by Floor Koudijs 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Dear Collab members, I want to make you aware of the existence of the Wikipedia store <https://store.wikimedia.org/>. You may know about the store already, but what you may not know, is that you can ask the Education team to sponsor gifts for volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation can pay for those gifts (as long as the request is reasonable, of course). You can ask for gifts to thank and motivate cherished volunteers who work hard to make the education program a success. You can also give out small prizes to students in your education program to encourage them and give the program a competitive element. If you are interested in getting some swag from the store, please email education(a)wikimedia.org with the specific request that you have and we will work with you to get the swag to you! Thanks! Floor Koudijs Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline) +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone) fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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please update your Phabricator task
by Floor Koudijs 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Dear Collab members, We are almost at the end of another quarter. And that means that we at the Wikimedia Foundation will be doing our quarterly reporting. In the quarterly report we will be talking about the Education Collab meeting. We will also report on the activity in Phabricator. *Please update any Phabricator tasks <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/education-collab/> assigned to you, or ones that you are closely involved with, no later than the end of the day (wherever you are) Monday, April 4th. *Please ask Tighe (in cc here) if you have any questions about this. Once again, it's been an honor working with all of you as part of the Education Collaborative. You are an awesome group of humans. I hope you continue moving forward with the Collab in the best way possible, and I have total faith that you will. Take care, all! Floor Koudijs Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline) +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone) fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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Thanks Floor
by Paola Ricaurte Quijano 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Dear Floor, I am really grateful for your trust, your guidance and your vision during this time. You are a remarkable example of a thoughtful leader who cares and supports the growth of each member of the team and the team as a whole. We will work hard to continue reinforcing the collab as an strategic place to think about Wikipedia and education. I wish you the best. Please keep in touch. Paola

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Floor is leaving WMF
by Floor Koudijs 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Dear Collab members, I am sad to announce that I will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. March 31st will be my last day. After I leave, Tighe will take over the leadership of the Education team. I have no doubt that the Wikipedia Education Program will be moving forward in the best way possible with Tighe leading it. It has been two very educational, inspiring, awesome, intense and exhausting years. I have loved working on building the Education team and guiding it forward in a good direction, despite difficult times. It has been wonderful getting to know all of you and to build the Collab together with you. You all know conditions within the WMF are difficult at the moment. We are going through a transition that has been a long time coming. The months (and maybe years) ahead will be difficult for us at the Wikimedia Foundation and for the movement as a whole that is impacted by what the Wikimedia Foundation does. I do not have the energy anymore to go through that period with the right mindset and the can-do attitude that is needed. It's time for someone else who does have that energy and optimism to move the team and the Wikimedia Foundation forward. I was so happy to be able to spend time with you all in Stockholm, and to do that in a positive an appreciative atmosphere. It was the best goodbye I could get (without you knowing this would be a goodbye), to see you all doing so well and to see the Collab truly come together as a group. It was a true joy. And for me personally, it has been one of the greatest achievements in my role to have built the Collab together with you all. I hope you will move the Collab forward together with all your amazing experiences! And I know that together with Tighe and his leadership, you will, and you will thrive. I can be reached on my personal email address: floorkoudijs(a)gmail.com. Take care, wonderful people. Warmly, Floor Floor Koudijs Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline) +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone) fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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