Education October 2011

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Problem with registration on workshops
by Nina Wikipedia 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it? Nina nina.wikipedia(a)gmail.com

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Outreach Oceania: Looking for volunteers
by Laura Hale 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi! We're doing an outreach effort to Oceania, with an early focus on Micronesia. Details can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Outreach_Oceania . We have an itinerary set and airfare paid for. We've talked to local colleges and we'll be going there as our primary form of outreach. We're intending to do secondary outreach to local GLAMs. We'll be going to Majuro in the Marshall Islands, and Kosrae and Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia from January 27 to February 16. We'd be really keen to have another Australian, some one from the GLAM sector or some one with education experience attend and participate in these outreach efforts. Ideally, we'd like some one is keen to help and who can be self funding in terms of airfare and help with some of the lodging costs (round trip airfare costs between $1,500 and $2,300 from Cairns) or some one has a specialised skill set that would be really beneficial for us to have along when we make a funding pitch to WMF. (One of our participants is American. Hence, funding sought there. The other two are myself and User:Hawkeye7.) If you've teaching experience, conducted wiki workshops, have experience working with GLAMs, that would be really great. It is a big ask, but if you have the time, going along would be really great. The islands we're visiting have small populations of between 2,700 and 25,000, so there is a great opportunity to make a big impact. :) If you're interested, please get in touch with me via e-mail, on IRC, or on one of the talk pages for the project. If you have general questions about the project, please feel free to ask on list. Sincerely, Laura Hale http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Outreach_Oceania/Planning

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Wikimedia UK & World War I & universities &GLAM
by Chris Keating 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

(apologies for cross-posting, but it's a UK topic, a MILHIST topic, GLAM topic and an education topic all rolled into one) You might be interested to know that Wikimedia UK has lent its support to a bid led by a researcher at University of Birmingham, supported by Oxford University and also the Imperial War Museum, for a project funded by JISC to categorise and prioritise the UK's cultural heritage related to World War I.(1) This isn't a partnership per se though it may well lead to one. The only commitment we have made is to write a letter and go to a meeting, and the outcomes will be very long-term. However I think it's significant because 1) It is good recognition that the Wikimedia movement is a stakeholder in the development of heritage and educational resources. (The phone call when someone from Oxford was saying "we really think your support would add weight to what we're doing" was, erm, interesting) 2) It gives us as an organisation formal access to a strong network of world-leading institutions focusing on this particular task 3) It's also relatively unusual for a Wikimedia organisation to provide support to someone else to apply for third-party funding in a competitive tendering process, but in this case the Wikimedia UK board thought it was quite justified in pursuit of our objectives. This should help us build up our network of institutional partners, particularly (but not exclusively) aimed at the World War I centenary, and help lay the groundwork for some exciting collaboration work in the future. Any questions, or if you'd like to express your interest in being involved in future work on the World War I centenary, please give me a shout. Chris (1)JISC's Invitation to Tender: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/09/JISC%20ITT… Wikimedia UK's letter of support (and a bit of a manifesto): http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_JISC_support.pdf The people whose bid we are supporting (though nothing specific about it here): http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/index.aspx

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Getting together to coordinate university outreach activities
by Frank Schulenburg 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hi all, I would like to invite you to the first "Global Education Program Metrics and Activities" meeting on October 25, 2011. The meeting is a monthly gathering of people interested in the global Wikimedia outreach activities at educational institutions. First and foremost the meeting aims at sharing our experiences in the field of university outreach. We want to ensure that best practices and lessons learned get shared across different countries. More information: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/05/measuring-and-coordinating-wikipedias-… Sign up for October 25: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Education_Program_Metrics_and_Act… Thanks, Frank

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added to agenda: Wikiversity
by Erkan Yilmaz 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hello, I've added also Wikiversity (1) to the agenda. Wikiversity (2) is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. Some examples can be found at: School and university projects (3) Erkan Yilmaz (1) http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_Education_Program_Me… (2) http://en.wikiversity.org (3) http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:School_and_university_projects -- Find me at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Erkan_Yilmaz LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/yilmazerkan personal blog http://IaskQuestions.com ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Diese eMail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese eMail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. **********************************************************************************************

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Medical outreach
by James Heilman 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

The scholarship is just for "post secondary students". This year it is restricted to Canadian but as the numbers have not been as good as hoped (still a few months to go). Will be looking at offering this globally next year. I will be lecturing on Wikipedia next month in India and Nepal at two medical school their. I will let you know how it goes. They have managed to find a computer lab with 10 computers in New Delhi thus after the lectures which will be open to all we will be having a hands on session limited to 20 people. It supposedly filled up the day it was announced. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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IRC Office Hour with India Education Program team
by LiAnna Davis 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

(apologies for the cross posting) This is just a quick note to alert you that we'll be having an IRC Office Hours on Friday, October 22 at 02:00 UTC to discuss the India Education Program [1]. The team working on the India Education Program will be present to answer any questions about the program in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net. See the Meta page on IRC Office Hours for more information on accessing the IRC channel and time conversions [2]. Hope to talk with you then. LiAnna [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours -- LiAnna Davis Global Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Educational outreach to remote areas
by Laura Hale 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Does anyone have any experience doing Wikipedia/Wikinews outreach and training in remote areas? What sort of materials did you use in the classroom? How closely did you work with teachers in developing classroom related training? Sincerely, Laura Hale

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Medical outreach
by James Heilman 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hey All Have been doing outreach at a number of Universities and have a few more planned. Primarily deal with medicine but applies to all subject areas. If people are interested in getting involved more details can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Editor_outreach And on Wikimedia Canada's page http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/Projects/Medical_student_outreach -- James Heilman, MD, CCFP(EM) Wikipedian, Wikimedia Canada

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WikiKids - Vikidia: encyclopedia for children
by Mathias Damour 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi all, I subscribed to that mailing list since its beginning, but didn't get involved in it yet. I've just checked about all the previous messages ;-) I am a French wikipedian, and would like to tell you about a pretty old project: a wiki encyclopedia designed for children. It seems that this list mainly focus on Wikipedia-editing in higher education and to a lesser extent, offline content from Wikipedia for children, with the "Wikipedia for Schools" selection. However, I noticed this message: Le 20/04/2011 03:31, Nikhil Sheth a écrit : > The 2008/09 edition of Wikipedia for Schools is very good, but also > limited in that it has only 5500+ articles (contrast with Wikipedia en > latest selection that has 45000+) and many times topics we need aren't > there. (...) > I got Okawix and downloaded Simple Wikipedia package for offline - > it's got many articles in simpler language and can be very useful for > lower-age children. But it's uncensored and so unusable. Is it > possible to start a simple wikipedia project to collect the > for-schools articles, or better yet just filter out inappropriate ones? The idea of a equivalent of Wikipedia for children was discussed in particular in 2005-2006 on this page : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids Although it had no continuation as a Wikimedia project, wikis with such a feature were launched first in Dutch: WikiKids <http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Hoofdpagina>; in french a few month later: Vikidia <http://fr.vikidia.org/> (article on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikidia>) and then in Spanish Vikidia in spanish <http://es.vikidia.org/>. I opened Vikidia. WikiKids and Vikidia in French are doing well and are quite alike in size and activity, whereas Vikidia in Spanish doesn't make it so well. On Vikidia in French, we currently have a guest-book opened, and the comments left on it <http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Livre_d%27or/Automne_2011> are quite encouraging. Children say they appreciate the article to be more readable for them than on Wikipedia, their main reserve being that some article are not developed enough, or that there isn't articles on every subject they would like to know about... They clearly expect (and claim) some substantial content, though it has to be easier than the wikipedia's content. We have yet a bit more than 10 000 articles in Vikidia in French, and about 220 000 unique visitors a month. This "Wikikids" question was mentioned again in the Wikimedia scope one year ago there: meta:2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content: Part Two#Recommendations: Controversial Text <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Conten…>: ************************************ /Because of the considerations outlined above, our recommendations surrounding text in WMF projects are the following: It is recommended: (...) 3. That, however, the Foundation investigate the creation of a "WikiJunior" version of the Wikipedias, aimed at children under the age of 12, either as a stand-alone project or in partnership with existing and appropriate educational institutions. Explanations: (...) Recommendations 2 and 3 (...) Much more successful, in our opinion, is a project specifically targeted to children, and to the quite different needs of children in different age groups. Some projects of this nature have already been begun in the WikiJunior section of WikiBooks,[3] but it is our feeling that the scope of such a venture might necessitate the formation of partnerships with institutions who have experience and resources already devoted to this area./ ************************************ ...to which I had this response on meta:User talk:Sj <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sj&oldid=2959503#Wiki…>. Another feature of WikiKids/Vikidia is of course that it let children be involved in building the content, and does not "only" aim to produce and offer content for children, for the same benefits that you can find in Wikipedia-editing workshops for students. There is both some school projects and volunteer children editing on Vikidia along with teenagers, students and adult writers. My question is of course: */why is there no equivalent in English yet ?/* ;-) (And if you are Spanish speaker or if you know people that would be interested in it, please tell them about http://es.vikidia.org ; I would be glad that there is new people involved in it, or even take it in charge.) Greetings, -- Mathias Damour [[User:Astirmays]] onfr:wp <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays>,en:wp <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays> andVikidia <http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays> 49 rue Carnot 74000 Annecy France 00 (33)4 57 09 10 56 00 (33)6 27 13 65 51 mathias.damour(a)laposte.net

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