Our belief is that synchronous communication facilitates much more meaningful discussion than does asynchronous posting. With respect to the notion of wikistructors, our belief is that people will have an interest in speaking w experts on various subjects in connection w their searches and readings on Wikipedia.
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> Where specifically do you think it would go? Why would people use it? I've
> thought about this in some ways around co-editing, or collaborative
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> We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd
> like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified,
> Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of
> "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with)
> anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to
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Our motivation is three-fold (in no particular order)
1. We think this would add a great new dimension to the Wikipedia community
2. We are a start-up and this would help prove out our vision for the need to facilitate on-demand conversations between interested parties in a variety of contexts
3. Assuming our vision has merit, there are revenue opportunities that could emerge from this wholly outside of the Wikipedia ecosystem
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> We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
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Hello everyone,
I am happy to announce that Anna Koval is joining the Wikipedia Education
Program team.
Along with Tighe and Floor, Anna will be our third Global Education Program
Manager and will work with our team to support education initiatives around
the world. Anna's Serbian background will be helpful to our team's efforts
to support education program leaders in Eastern Europe. She will also serve
as our point person for outreach to Asian countries and secondary schools.
She and Sage will work closely on Global Education technical support needs.
For the past 8 months, Anna has worked at the Wikimedia Foundation as a
Community Advocate, supporting several teams, including mine, as well as:
* Siko Bouterse and the Grantmaking team on IEGs and gender gap work
* Yana Welinder and the Legal team on the new Trademark policy
* James Forrester and the Product team on the VisualEditor roll out
and, of course,
* Philippe Beaudette and the Community Advocacy team on a number of
workflows, not the least of which is the wikis' emergency response
system.
Anna's transition from her Community Advocacy position and activities will
be completed soon.
Anna is an award-winning educator, with a master's degree in education and
more than a decade of classroom teaching experience, ranging from middle
school through graduate school. She was a Walt Disney Teacher of the Year
nominee, an American Library Association Emerging Leader, and was even
featured on the cover of *California Teacher
<http://issuu.com/cftpub/docs/calteach_sep-oct-2009?e=7269471/3308134>*
magazine.
When Anna's not at work, she enjoys gardening at her home in Sonoma and
spending time her husband and two dogs. She's also a mighty fine home
distiller.
Please join me in (re-)welcoming Anna Koval!
Rod Dunican
Director, Global Education
Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi, everyone.
Just wanted to draw your attention to a submission I made re my Wiki-Med
course at the Sackler school of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University.
I'm aiming to not only present the results of this first-of-its-kind
course, but also use it as a case-study for future collaborations, which
I'm hoping some of you may find interesting.. :)
It's called: "Wiki-Med: The Story of the First Full Wikipedia Course in
Israel - A Case
Study"<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wiki-Med:_The_Story_of…>
.
Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on this!
Cheers,
Shani.