I just found out about this list from Frank's blog
post<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/02/global-education-program-a%E2%80%93z/>,
and I'm happy to have finally found the place I was looking for! I have
already met some of you in person in Boston, and I'm very excited about
exchanging experiences and ideas with all of you.
For those of you whom I haven't met, my name is Juliana Bastos Marques, and
I teach History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State
(UNIRIO<http://www.unirio.br>).
On Aug. 15th I'm starting a course on topics in Roman History and editing
the Portuguese WP - for undergraduates, approx. 20 students. The state of
History articles in WP:PT is still not so good, and frankly quite bad in
some cases. As you may know, students from all levels do use that sort of
material anyway, so my primary goal is to have them understand how to read
sources more critically and improve them in a more adequate matter.
I'm blogging the steps in this initiative, so in the case anyone wants to
try your Portuguese or test Google Translator, it's
http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com/ - readership is still low, but
I'm confident that the initiative will pay soon. As I've written there, I'm
still worried because I have no Campus Ambassador whatsoever - the only guy
who seemed interested doesn't reply to my emails. I think I'll have to do
that part all by myself.
Greetings,
Juliana.
Hey Guys
Would like to make a plug for a scholarship we have available here in Canada
for post secondary students. Applications begin Sept 10th, 2011 with the
award being given to the student who makes the greatest contribution to a
disease related article. Am looking for people wishing to get involved with
spreading this. An overview can be found here
http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/Projects/Medical_student_outreach Have put together
a bit of a press release:
Wikimedia Canada is offering a $1000 dollar scholarship to the Canadian post
secondary student who makes the greatest improvement to a disease related
article on Wikipedia. Applications open Sept 10th 2011 and run until Feb
28th 2012 and can be found online at
http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/Scholarship_application
Wikipedia, as most are aware, is the free online encyclopedia that covers
nearly everything, almost anyone can edit, and nearly everybody reads. As of
Aug 2011 it had over 3.7 million articles in the English language alone, of
which approximately 23,000 pertained to the practice of medicine. These
medical pages in a given month receive between 150 and 200 million page
views and are being used extensively by medical professionals and the lay
public alike.
While Wikipedia has significant quality information, further efforts are
needed. Of the top 100 most viewed medical articles, only a quarter are
deemed high quality. Thus those at WikiProject Medicine invite you to join
us in our attempt to provide the people of the world with free access to
reliable, understandable, and current health information and maybe win a
scholarship while you are at it.
Comments? Anyone else looking at this sort of initiative? This is being run
as a pilot project and hopefully will present at next years Wikimania on the
results.
--
James Heilman, MD, CCFP(EM)
Wikipedian, Wikimedia Canada
Hello all,
Pardon my cross-list posting, but I want to be sure that this news makes it
out to all those who might be interested.
This coming Saturday the Children's Museum of Indianapolis will be hosting
our first Edit-a-Thon, in conjunction with our second Backstage Pass for
local Wikipedians. This will be similar to the Editing Fridays that were set
up for the Campus Ambassadors in that anyone can come and help contribute to
this handful of articles.
I would be thrilled to have anyone interested in participating online to
sign up on our Edit-a-Thon page and plan to be in virtual-attendance from
1pm-3pm ET (optional 5pm) on Saturday. Here you can sign up & learn about
our topic, the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TCMI/Caplan_Collection
We will have a good many sources digitized by Saturday so that online
e-volunteers can work in conjunction with our on-site Wikipedians to help us
create and improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection, which is made
up of folk toys from all over the world.
Part of this event includes the newly minted Wikipedia club and WM:Mexico
skyping in and translating our already existing articles into Spanish as we
work on creating new articles. This is a great way for the students to gain
English skills and for the museum to connect with and serve a community that
they otherwise would not have had easy, direct access to.
I'd appreciate you passing on this request to anyone that you may think to
be interested.
Thanks much,
--
Lori Phillips
Web Content Specialist | Wikipedian in Residence
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703-489-6036 | Museums & Motherhood <http://hstryqt.tumblr.com>
Hello all,
Pardon my cross-list posting, but I want to be sure that this news makes it
out to all those who might be interested.
This coming Saturday the Children's Museum of Indianapolis will be hosting
our first Edit-a-Thon, in conjunction with our second Backstage Pass for
local Wikipedians. This will be similar to the Editing Fridays that were set
up for the Campus Ambassadors in that anyone can come and help contribute to
this handful of articles.
I would be thrilled to have anyone interested in participating online to
sign up on our Edit-a-Thon page and plan to be in virtual-attendance from
1pm-3pm ET (optional 5pm) on Saturday. Here you can sign up & learn about
our topic, the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TCMI/Caplan_Collection
We will have a good many sources digitized by Saturday so that online
e-volunteers can work in conjunction with our on-site Wikipedians to help us
create and improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection, which is made
up of folk toys from all over the world.
Part of this event includes the newly minted Wikipedia club and WM:Mexico
skyping in and translating our already existing articles into Spanish as we
work on creating new articles. This is a great way for the students to gain
English skills and for the museum to connect with and serve a community that
they otherwise would not have had easy, direct access to.
I'd appreciate you passing on this request to anyone that you may think to
be interested.
Thanks much,
--
Lori
703.489.6036 | Museums & Motherhood <http://hstryqt.tumblr.com/>