Dear Vira,Thank you so much for sharing your draft blog post with our Collab. Here are my highlights:* It is an excellent summary of events with ample context and gorgeous photos.* I *love* that you used the WEP tagline "Wikipedia belongs in education" in the *first sentence* of your blog. I suspect that Floor Koudijs will love it more!* It's excellent that Wikimedia Ukraine understands that teachers must be involved with editing Wikipedia and that WMUA intends to provide the maximal possible training.* That this educational collaboration led to a municipal MoU is fantastic! We're going to need to add a summary to the government partnerships page [[here]] on Outreach wiki. Please feel free to start the draft!.* The Summer Wikischool idea is awesome! Can I come, please?? :)For the record, I just want to say that I am so proud of Wikimedia Ukraine and their growing Wikipedia Education Program.When the Wikimedians of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) gathered for their 4th annual meeting in Estonia in 2015 [1], I had a long heart-to-heart with Levon (User:Ліонкінг) about expanding the education program to this region. My heart is so happy to see this dream become a reality.Truth be told, we (WMUA and I) have been talking about how to expand Ukraine's WEP since the 3rd CEE meeting in Ukraine [2]. This just goes to show that if we are patient and if we persevere, good things happen.This news was a long time coming and a long time in the making. This, truly, is my best Christmas present of all.Again, I am so proud of Wikimedia Ukraine and their growing Wikipedia Education Program.Дякую, Віро. <3Thank you, Vira. <3Sincerely yours,Anna[2] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/December_2014/Eastern_European_education_programs_presented_at_regional_conferenceP.S. Because I also wish to share my positive feedback with your chapter's leadership, I redacted about a half a dozen emoticons from this message. I hope that the undercurrent of joy and pride and wikilove still permeates it nevertheless.On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Vira Motorko <vira.motorko@gmail.com> wrote:_______________________________________________Hi all,We managed to reach out to several institutions in Mykolaiv Oblast (region) in Ukraine, university as well as authorities, so there is a hope for fruitful WEP (and GLAM) collaboration there. But it's only starting.My colleagues asked me to write a draft post for Wikimedia Blog so here it is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Expansion_of_Wikipedia_Education_Program_in_UkraineI would appreciate your feedback or any reflections on text, regarding its language as well as its contents and the ideas themselves.Thank you,--Vira MotorkoAre you saving your documents in free formats? ;)
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