Hello from ESEAP in Bali!
In November and December 2017, I had the great opportunity to extend some
planned travel in Asia to include site visits to Nepal, India and Taiwan.
During that time, I worked closely with local Wikimedians who were running
education programs in their communities. It was an amazing learning
experience, and will help to shape some of the support the Education Team
will provide to program leaders in the future.
I'm happy to share that today we are publishing a report
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Asia_report_summary> on the
activities and outcomes of the site visits, and a companion blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/03/wikimedia-education-asia/> post.
I hope you will take a look! The work that these Wikimedians are doing for
education in the movement is having an impact not only on the Wikimedia
projects, but also in their local communities. The Education Team will use
what we've learned from these site visits and from our research
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/23/education-survey-report/> on the
perception of education in the movement to shape our future work.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
best regards,
Nichole
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*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Hello,
Vikidia, the children encyclopedia, is glad to announce the opening of its
version in Greek with a team of Wikipedia contributors, lead by Kostas20142.
As most of you already know, Vikidia is a 10-years old mediawiki-based
encyclopedia, working like Wikipedia, under CC-BY-SA, and with a few rules
specific to children. Children AND adults are welcome in contributing in a
fun and sometimes schoolyard ambiance :D. Some teachers also write some
articles in class.
Vikidia is open in 10 languages now, as you can see here:
https://www.vikidia.org/
Older, most of the children contributors become contributors of Wikipedia.
If you speak Greek and want to write an article for 8 to 13 years-old
children, now you can choose whatever article you like to start!
https://el.vikidia.org
Best regards,
Plyd
PS: forward this email to your Greek-speaking friends!
Dear Wikimedia+Education enthusiasts,
Your April Education Newsletter is available at:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
This month's contributions include participation in 2 conferences:
- The OER Conference, in Bristol with a very detailed article on a
variety of participations in the conference.
- The Open Education Global Conference, in Delft
You will also learn from experiences in:
- Armenia, the Basque Country, Israel, Macedonia, Norway, and Taiwan
And work in projects (besides Wikipedia):
- Wiktionary
- Txikipedia (Vikidia, now integrated into eu.wikipedia)
May is probably the perfect month for you to make your contribution to the
Education Newsletter: What are you learning, which experiences will you be
sharing with other Wikipedia+Education enthusiasts? Start your draft here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom
Best Regards,
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education