Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement Grant proposal for
an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so
there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about*
Wikipedia.
If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Cou…
And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
Cheers,
Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
This year the TED conference awarded their top prize to this talk by
Sugata Mitra entitled "Build a School in the Cloud":
http://http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.ht…
The point of the talk is asking for educational technologists to
design and offer peer-oriented learning systems. But such systems
already exist. The most advanced of which at present is called
PeerWise: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/
In short, PeerWise is an automated self-study, low-stakes assessment
system where both questions and answers are edited and reviewed by
anyone (with access; in practice this usually means anyone enrolled in
a course or major at an institution) very similarly to textual content
in a wiki. It is already being used successfully at hundreds of higher
education and other institutions. But sadly it's closed source. I
have since 2009 been trying to encourage the Foundation to build an
open source version of such a system.
Is there anyone else interested in this?
If you're planning to join us, I've added a link to Wikimedia Italia's
registration page here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Pr…
Please fill out the WM-IT form in addition to adding your name to the page.
We're hoping to put together an agenda in the next week, so if you have
specific ideas of things you'd like to discuss, please add to that page.
LiAnna
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From: LiAnna Davis <ldavis(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Subject: UPDATE: Interested in a global meet-up?
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Thanks to everyone who filled out the quick survey I sent earlier this
week. The good news is that it looks like there are enough people who are
already planning to attend the Chapters Meeting in Milan to make it
worthwhile to have the education workshop in conjunction with it.
The bad news is that after further research, it looks like there isn't any
money available from the Wikimedia Foundation for travel funding. :(
We realize this significantly limits the number of people who are able to
attend, but given the choice of a meeting with a small number of education
program leaders who were already coming to the chapters meeting and no
in-person meeting at all, we've chosen to move forward with the small
meeting. We're working on some videoconferencing solution to bring people
in virtually if that can be feasible, and we'll do our best to document the
discussions well. We'll also plan a larger meeting in conjunction with
Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong, in hopes that more program leaders worldwide
will be able to attend that.
If you're interested in learning more about the education workshop, please
see this wiki page for more details:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Pr…
If you are able to join us, either virtually or in person, please add your
name to that page.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Dear member of the Wikimedia Movement,
During our last Wikimedia CH board meeting, we resolved to set up a web conferencing solution.
After reviewing our needs, we decided that the most effective solution would be that of setting up a dedicated server for that purpose.
From a chapter level point of view, it could appear like an expensive investment, but put in the context of the Wikimedia movement, this investment (not such a large one, in fact) could be made profitable quite easily.
We plan to give access to these tools at first to all the chapters and affiliated group, as then as well for thematic groups.
Deployment is planned for the next Wikimedia Conference in Milan.
In the meantime, people interested in getting access to the tools can contact us by email at support(a)wikimedia.ch, with a simple description of the project, an estimation of the number of people interested and the frequency of usage.
For further information on the chosen solution, you can check the Big Blue Button website. http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
For the Wikimedia CH board
Charles
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Charles ANDRES, Chairman
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
Hi, a few weeks ago I wrote here asking for mentors to come to Kosovo
to help us with our Wiki Academy. It is happening this weekend. Thanks
for your positive response. Below is a statement on the event.
With the goal of improving the quality and quantity of online content
related to Kosovo on Wikipedia, Kosovo is opening this weekend Wiki
Academy Kosovo, where more than 100 mostly young future Kosovar
Wikipedians are expected to participate.
The Academy will bring together active online citizens and content
experts and help them develop into skilled editors to write high
quality articles and source high quality photos from Kosovo in
categories such as culture, heritage, social issues, geography,
institutions, economy and tourism.
During the Wiki Academy participants will meet Wikipedia mentors and
research experts from abroad and Kosovo and learn valuable research
and drafting skills. Seven Wikipedians from abroad have been invited
to lecture and mentor the participants, most of whom have not edited
Wikipedia before. Some of the topics being worked on are those on
economy, national cuisine, forests, and touristic destinations for
Wikivoyage. In parallel, in a competition that will end today, the
organizers have so far sourced more than 1,300 photographs depicting
Kosovo, which can be seen on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Academy_Kosovo_Photo_Contest.
The event is organized by Ipko Foundation with the support of Republic
of Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Embassy in
Kosovo, Free/Libre Open Source Software Kosova and the British
Council.
See the website http://wikiacademykosovo.org for details, the articles
being worked on our dedicated wiki at
http://live.wikiacademykosovo.org if you would like to help out and
follow the conversation on @ipkofoundation, #wikikosovo, and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiAcademyKosovo
Cheers,
Arianit
I've just published a wonderful post from Mina Theofilatou
(User:Saintfevrier) about her project in Greece working with high school
students to contribute photographs of the island of Kefalonia to Wikimedia
Commons -- she has some inspiring ideas, and I encourage you to check it
out!
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/21/education-program-greece/
I also published a profile on Doaa Seif, one of our Campus Ambassadors in
the Egypt program, which you may also be interested in:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/20/doaa-seif-profile/
Enjoy!
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all -
A draft of an individual engagement grant proposal was just posted to
meta-wiki focused on improving the English Wikipedia's coverage of
topics that lay at the intersection of women and philosophy. If
approved, I'll be working on the project, along with Alex Madva and
Katie Gasdaglis. Alex and Katie don't have a lot of content edits on
any of the Wikimedia projects yet, but we've been talking about trying
to conduct a project like this for a number of months, and they're
pretty well-versed in issues related to demographic and coverage gaps
on Wikipedia, and are also familiar with previous efforts to bring the
academy and Wikipedia closer together. Alex is a Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellow in philosophy at UC Berkeley, and Katie is finishing up her PhD
in philosophy at Columbia.
The basic idea behind our proposal is to engage in a few separate
forms of outreach to the academy in an effort to improve the English
Wikipedia's coverage of topics that lay at the intersection of women
and philosophy, including feminist philosophy, gender and race
theory, scholarly work by women and other minority philosophers,
philosophical topics that are historically underrepresented or
marginalized because of their association with stigmatized groups
(including women and minorities), and biographical articles on women
and other minority philosophers themselves. We'll be reaching out to
instructors in targeted disciplines to encourage their classes to
participate in the education program, and developing reusable
resources very explicitly tailored towards how to best contribute to
Wikipedia as a member of a class that is focused on an
underrepresented area of philosophy. (We intend to only have a limited
number of instructors and students participate, to ensure that we'll
be able to handle any extra workload the project creates and to ensure
that we only accept instructors who are excited about the project and
are willing to put in enough time to do it right.) We'll also be
reaching out to academic philosophers from subfields currently
underrepresented on Wikipedia and encouraging them to participate
directly (including us hosting trainings, producing material
specifically geared towards making their transition in to Wikipedia
easier, placing blog posts in appropriate places, etc.) We will also
be soliciting feedback from academics about any policy issues they see
that could be damaging ENWP's ability to eventually cover
underrepresented areas adequately - one thing that has come up so far
is the possibility that the academic notability guidelines may be
missing criteria that are highly indicative of a philosopher being
notable. If anything of this nature shows up, we'll try to get the
academic who perceives a problem to make a public articulation of it,
so that we can bring their thoughts about it to ENWP's community.
We've been talking about these ideas with a number of professors from
several different universities, and a lot of them are quite excited
about it. I think that this has the potential to go a long ways
towards addressing ENWP's lack of coverage in our targeted content
areas, and will hopefully also create an scalable educational outreach
model that can be replicated in other underrepresented disciplines and
on other Wikimedia projects in the future - we'll be documenting
everything we do meticulously. We'd welcome any
comments/questions/concerns/etc about the project, either posted here
or on the talk page of the proposal.
You can read the grant proposal here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_on_the_Margins:_Women,_…
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Kevin Gorman
I wanted to draw your attention in particular to this excellent post from
Sophie Österberg from Wikimedia Sverige -- she's put together a very frank
list of mistakes she's made and what she has learned from them. I highly
encourage everyone to read the post and add your own learnings, either
through commenting on the blog post or through discussion on this list. I
think it would be great if we got better as a community of bravely sharing
not only what goes well, but what doesn't, so that we can all learn from
each others' experiences and not make the same mistakes!
Thanks, Sophie, for the great post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/14/wikipedia-education-program-sweden/
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all! I am very excited to see this timely thread.
In our project "Communicate OER," we are working on a 6 week facilitated course through the School of Open (part of Peer to Peer University).
We have a draft up -- a very early draft, but probably of interest to others working on similar ideas: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-be…
We expect to launch the course in conjunction with the launch of the School of Open, during Open Education Week (starting March 11).
We're very interested in finding a good way to dovetail with the Wikipedia Education Program. We expect many participants to be educators, so offering a clear path to getting started teaching with Wikipedia will be an important facet of the course.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]] on Wikipedia and elsewhere
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:30:53 -0600
> From: "Robert Schnautz" <schnautzr(a)hotmail.com>
> To: <piokon(a)post.pl>, "Wikimedia Education"
> <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: "Dr. Jonathan Obar" <obar(a)msu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s)
> aboutWikipedia
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> I know that Dr. Obar taught a course on Wikipedia administrator selection.
> Copied him in case he's not on the list (though I can't imagine why not).
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piotr Konieczny
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:47 PM
> To: Wikimedia Education
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s)
> aboutWikipedia
>
> Seems like a worthwhile idea. Who, if anyone, has taught courses about
> Wikipedia in the past?
>
> I am, in fact, developing one myself, I am currently working on a draft
> for Prezi lectures about Wikipedia (they are licensed under CC-BY-SA,
> and I'd be happy to share them with you if you'd be interested).
>
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny, PhD
> http://independent.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/About
> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
>
>
>
> On 2/12/2013 4:18 AM, Sage Ross wrote:
>> Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement Grant proposal for
>> an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
>> about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
>> systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
>> Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so
>> there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
>> together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about*
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Cou…
>>
>> And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
>>
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