On Jul 30, 2012 7:18 AM, "Tilman Bayer" <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Florence Devouard <anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> > On 7/28/12 5:58 AM, Tilman Bayer wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> the Wikimedia Foundation's 2012-13 Annual Plan has just been published
at
> >>
> >>
> >>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan…
> >>
> >> accompanied by a Q&A:
> >>
> >>
> >>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2012-2013_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_An…
> >>
> >> The plan was approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in
> >> Washington, DC, at Wikimania, and previously outlined to the
> >> Foundation staff and interested community members at the monthly staff
> >> meeting on July 5, 2012. We were planning to publish the video
> >> recording of that meeting at this point, but encountered technical
> >> difficulties; the video will hopefully become available soon.
> >>
> >
> > Slide 8 : "How are we doing against the 2012 targets"
> >
> > I was stopped by
> >
> > "The Global Education Program is now the largest-ever systematic effort
of
> > the Wikimedia mouvement to boost high quality content creation, with a
> > projected addition of 19 million characters to Wikipedia through student
> > assignements 2011-2012"
> >
> > OF COURSE, we all know that WMF needs to glorify what it is actually
> > initiating/in charge of. And that's fair enough.
> >
> > But seriously... I would feel fine with us trying to claim that the GEP
is
> > the largest system effort to INCREASE the number of articles. It is
probably
> > true.
> >
> > But we all know that the result is... so and so. Possibly good content,
but
> > also lot's of crap being reverted and deleted afterwards. Claiming it
is the
> > largest effort to boost high quality content is not only disingenous...
but
> > I actually find it counter productive and a tiny bit offensive toward
the
> > actual community.
> >
> > High quality content simply does NOT come from newbie students.
>
> Over the last years, the Foundation has been trying to base decisions
> and evaluations more often on objective data and research rather than
> on personal opinions and impressions.
>
> Of course, here the term "high quality" does not necessarily mean,
> say, featured content (e.g. on the English Wikipedia, featured
> articles currently make up less than 0.1% of the total articles), but
> instead refers to comparisons with average contributions.
>
> Someone from the Education Program will be able to give a more
> thorough overview of the efforts to evaluate its results, but for
> example I'm aware of
>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fal…
Ive asked for more info at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_ev…
> . The quantitative method used there has its limitations, but similar
> methods are employed in independent (i.e non-WMF) research about
> Wikipedia in the academic literature.
Do you have links to any relevant studies of the GEP?
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John Vandenberg
Hey Rob,
It's been a pleasure meeting you and working with you! Do stay in touch!
Steph
On 28 July 2012 05:11, Rob Schnautz <rschnautz(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> Beginning Wednesday (August 1st), two-way communication between English
> Wikipedia editors and Wikipedia Education Program staff in the San
> Francisco office will no longer need to be directed through a middle-man
> anymore for translation. I encourage anyone of either party needing to
> communicate to the other party to check out the new Google Translate option
> that translates between WMFese English and Wikipedian English.
>
> I’d like to thank everyone I’ve worked with and around who has helped
> make this one of the most enjoyable jobs I’ve ever worked. I’ve had a
> wonderful time working with the amazing folks at the Foundation on the
> United States, Canada, and India Education Programs, as well as with the
> other community liaisons. I’ve never had the opportunity to work in such a
> cheerful and supportive environment as this. I wish all of you the best as
> you fill in any gaps I leave behind—I know you’ve got some big challenges
> ahead of you the next several months.
>
> English Wikipedians, you haven’t seen the last of me yet! [[:en:User:Bob
> the Wikipedian]] is about to come out of hibernation. As for the IRC clan,
> it was great getting to know you, and I sure hope this won’t be the last
> opportunity I get to interact with most of you. You may now resume normal
> chat (if there’s such a thing) knowing that the only staff watching you
> during my former office hours is Ironholds. (Please be gentle with him on
> occasion, though!)
>
> It’s been very exciting to see the Wikipedia Education Program from a
> staff perspective and to relay messages to the community. Likewise, it was
> interesting to see how the editing community felt about the Wikipedia
> Education Program, and to share those feelings with my manager and
> coworkers—that’s an experience they don’t teach you in computer science
> courses! From questions and comments to even the biggest complaints—I’ve
> enjoyed providing my services to you all. This job has opened my eyes to a
> whole new career path for me to explore in online community liaising.
>
> I think any of you Wikipedia editors and staff will agree with me that
> having a roof over one’s head and a working Internet connection are two of
> the most valuable privileges life has to offer, so I’ve attached my résumé
> in the event someone out there has (or knows of) an opening for which
> they’d like to consider me.
>
> If you do plan on responding to this email, please make sure you include
> my permanent email address schnautzr(a)hotmail.com —thanks!
>
> Adios, y’all!
>
> Rob Schnautz
> Online Communications Contractor
> Global Development
> Wikimedia Foundation
> Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
>
> P.S. I don’t have any plans at the moment to quit my volunteer work as
> regional ambassador for the Wikipedia Education Program to Wisconsin,
> Michigan, and Kentucky. So Jami, and all my fellow volunteers, see you on
> the other side!
>
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Steph Thommen
Recruitment Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Beginning Wednesday (August 1st), two-way communication between English
Wikipedia editors and Wikipedia Education Program staff in the San Francisco
office will no longer need to be directed through a middle-man anymore for
translation. I encourage anyone of either party needing to communicate to
the other party to check out the new Google Translate option that translates
between WMFese English and Wikipedian English.
I’d like to thank everyone I’ve worked with and around who has helped make
this one of the most enjoyable jobs I’ve ever worked. I’ve had a wonderful
time working with the amazing folks at the Foundation on the United States,
Canada, and India Education Programs, as well as with the other community
liaisons. I’ve never had the opportunity to work in such a cheerful and
supportive environment as this. I wish all of you the best as you fill in
any gaps I leave behind—I know you’ve got some big challenges ahead of you
the next several months.
English Wikipedians, you haven’t seen the last of me yet! [[:en:User:Bob the
Wikipedian]] is about to come out of hibernation. As for the IRC clan, it
was great getting to know you, and I sure hope this won’t be the last
opportunity I get to interact with most of you. You may now resume normal
chat (if there’s such a thing) knowing that the only staff watching you
during my former office hours is Ironholds. (Please be gentle with him on
occasion, though!)
It’s been very exciting to see the Wikipedia Education Program from a staff
perspective and to relay messages to the community. Likewise, it was
interesting to see how the editing community felt about the Wikipedia
Education Program, and to share those feelings with my manager and
coworkers—that’s an experience they don’t teach you in computer science
courses! From questions and comments to even the biggest complaints—I’ve
enjoyed providing my services to you all. This job has opened my eyes to a
whole new career path for me to explore in online community liaising.
I think any of you Wikipedia editors and staff will agree with me that
having a roof over one’s head and a working Internet connection are two of
the most valuable privileges life has to offer, so here’s a link to my
résumé in the event someone out there has (or knows of) an opening for which
they’d like to consider me: http://www.massmirror.com/50136cb944818
If you do plan on responding to this email, please make sure you include my
permanent email address bobthewikipedian(a)gmail.com —thanks!
Adios, y’all!
Rob Schnautz
Online Communications Contractor
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation
Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
P.S. I don’t have any plans at the moment to quit my volunteer work as
regional ambassador for the Wikipedia Education Program to Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Kentucky. So Jami, and all my fellow volunteers, see you on
the other side!
Dear all,
today Beat Estermann (Third age online) from Suisse has started a talk page
on the outreach wiki, to start a new portal for the different experiences
in education and Wikipedia.
The idea was born at Wikimania in Washinton last week. At the "Education
meetup" from Wikimedia Deutschland and at the "Wikipedia Education Programm
meetup" a lot of different approaches came together and changed ideas.
Now Beat has set out his thoughts about how to go about setting up the new
Education Portal in the Outreach
Wiki<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education_Portal>and
invites everybody to join the discussion.
The aim of the initiative is, to get experiences closer together thoughout
the chapters and different approaches (also target groups).
Anyone interested in this exchange please use this Mailinglist and help to
develop this plattform!
Best regards,
Elly
Elly Köpf
Projektmanagerin
"education and knowledge"
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi everybody,
the first steps are done.
Thanks a lot to Beat and for this work!
I added the first links. I have to work out some lessons learned now to see
how to structure the programm sites.
Are there any Ideas?
so far:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Projects_and_Programs
let's go on and get visual!
Cheers, Elly
Elly Köpf
Projektmanagerin
Please note that I will be out of the office from 17.8.- 17.9.2012. Thank
you.
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/>
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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For more information, follow the links to our book pages!
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Assistant Permissions Coordinator
The Saylor Foundation
1000 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 220
Washington, DC 20007
FYI,
At the end of this student year 2011/2012, on Thursday 5 july 2012, the
prizes for the best students participants in the project "Macedonia on
Wikipedia" were awarded. Prizes were awarded by Deputy Minister of
Education and Science Mr. Safet Neziri [1] in the presence of the rector
of SEEU [2], Mr. Zamir Dika [3], the dean of FINKI [4], Mr. Dimitar
Trajanov [5], the dean of FSNT [6] Mr. Bekim Fetaji [7], prof. Katerina
Zdravkova [8] from FINKI, assistant Shpetim Latifi [9] from FSNT, other
professors [10] from both faculties, the representatives from the
Ministry of Education and Science, the representatives from Wikimedia
Macedonia [11] as well as students from both faculties.
The solemn ceremony was held at the Southeast European University campus
in Skopje, an event organized by the rector of SEEU - Mr. Zamir Dika.
(You can read the report from this event [12], [13])
Implementation of the project "Macedonian Wikipedia" will increase the
number of articles related to Macedonia on Wikipedia and the increasing
use of free content available on the Internet in the teaching process in
state and private educational institutions in Macedonia. Ministry of
Education and Science is the sponsor of the project "Macedonia on
Wikipedia".
Students were processed on average 3-4 quality articles related to their
study, that made hundreds of new and quality articles. It is interesting
to note that students from FSNT have been working on the Macedonian and
Albanian Wikipedia, which gives a special dimension to the project
because it allows students from other linguistic communities to
contribute to their native language.
The best students were promoted after evaluation of their mentors, and
committee of deans of both faculties and a representative of the Working
Group of the Ministry of Education and Science established for the
project "Macedonia on Wikipedia." The Deputy Minister gave the students
first, second and third prize.
The following students were awarded: Bisera Dugalicstudent at FINKI -
first prize, Ljiridon Selmani student at FSNT - second prize and Drini
Aliu student at FSNT - third prize. These awards will contribute towards
these students in earning a scholarship from the Ministry of Education
and Science. The process of awarding is an important component of the
project, which pays tribute to hardworking students for their work.
In future the project should be extended to other faculties of all
universities, secondary schools and later primary schools. Experiences
from the project of these two faculties in the future we will implement
to the other faculties.
[1] http://mon.gov.mk/en/ministerstvo/zamenikminister
[2] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/
[3] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~z.dika <http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Ez.dika>
[4] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/home
[5] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/staff/dimitar-trajanov
[6] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/faculties/cst
[7] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~b.fetaji
<http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Eb.fetaji>
[8] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/staff/katerina-zdravkova
[9] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~sh.latifi
<http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Esh.latifi>
[10] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/faculties/cst/cst-staff
[11] http://mk.wikimedia.org
<http://mk.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1…>
[12] Report from the event
<http://mk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012.07.05_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B…>
[13] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/information/news-events?id=711, Best
Students Prizes for the Enrichment of Wikipedia pages were Awarded
Best regards,
========================== Dimce Grozdanoski President of Wikimedia
Macedonia
Someone has created Meadowlark Bradsher's would-be Google Summer of
Code project from a few years ago:
http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tN006KEWo
They claim it is free, so is there anyone from the Foundation willing
to reach out to see if they will integrate with Wikiversity?
Best regards,
James Salsman
Dear All,
I have been given information about National Forum on Character Education
conference, which may be of interest to some of you. Please register
directly with the website.
We will be holding our 19th annual conference, the National Forum on
Character Education <http://www.character.org/conference>, in Washington,
D.C. this November 1-4. We are excited that, for the first time ever, our
conference will involve an International Summit on Character and
Leadership. We invite international representatives to join us to discuss
how CEP can support character development efforts abroad. You can view
more information on the Summit and Forum here: www.character.org/conference.
Regards,
Daria
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projects).
Anyone who's at Wikimania is welcome to attend a session tomorrow from 10
a.m. to noon tomorrow during the Unconference (
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unconference) talking about
Wikimedia projects' use in education settings. We'll get into more depth
than we were able to at the Meet-Up on Friday, and I encourage anyone who
has run an education program or who is interested in starting a program in
any country to join us!
LiAnna