Reminder - please consider taking our survey and share with others!
Call for Survey Participants - Wikimedia-Engaged Academic Researchers and Scientists
Survey Link: https://iup.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wfRHBdZmtbEuW2
Despite the growing interest in open educational resources in higher education, relatively few academics and scientists have significantly committed to sharing their research expertise in open knowledge projects. In fact, they often face opportunity costs when engaging with platforms like Wikipedia, as the time spent contributing can detract from more traditional scholarly outputs, such as peer-reviewed publications, conferences, and pursuing grants. This research project invites Wikimedia-engaged academics, scientists, and researchers to help us better understand how to make Wikimedia contributions “count” for academic researchers.
To that end, we'll be surveying and interviewing academic researchers and scientists who have previously engaged Wikimedia projects in an effort to discover the most suitable metrics and models for our project, as well as to develop a broad network of like-minded individuals interested in discovering how Wikimedia provides a platform for a broad open science infrastructure.
Taking the survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. If you agree to participate in an interview as part of the survey, this will be conducted via Zoom and take approximately 30-45 minutes of your time.
Brett Buttliere
University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
b.buttliere(a)uw.edu.pl
Matthew Vetter
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA, U.S.
mvetter(a)iup.edu
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS (PHONE 724.357.7730).
Survey Link: https://iup.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wfRHBdZmtbEuW2
Matt Vetter, PhD (he/him)
Professor of English
Dept. of Language, Literature, and Writing
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
http://mattvetter.net<http://mattvetter.net/>
Connect with me on Zoom,
https://iupvideo.zoom.us/my/dr.vetterzooms
Managing co-editor, Writing Spaces<http://www.writingspaces.org/>
Co-chair, CCCC Wikipedia Initiative<https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/wikipedia-initiative/>
Available as open access ebook, Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…..>
Fellow Wikimedians,
Wiki Education (the organization that runs the education program in the US
and Canada) has been working on a campaign to improve Wikipedia's coverage
of climate finance topics. As part of this campaign, we want to create
articles on climate finance around the world. Climate finance encompasses
investments to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. These
investments are desperately needed globally, but financial flows to the
developing world, and African countries in particular, have fallen short of
what is needed. But documentation is difficult to find for the average
reader, and difficult to interpret.
That's where you come in! If you're already convinced to help us, sign up
here:
https://wikiedu.org/courses/global-approaches-to-climate-finance-for-wikipe…
Please join us for a free virtual four-week Wiki Scholars course focused on
improving the article on climate finance in your home country. Our goal is
to fill gaps in Wikipedia's coverage by creating "Climate finance by
[country]" to document financial flows related to climate change mitigation
and adaptation for as many countries as possible, especially in the
developing world. Led by longtime English Wikipedian Ian Ramjohn, the
course will focus on:
- Just what is climate finance, and why it is an important piece in the
climate crisis puzzle
- Where to find sources on climate finance in your country
- How to create an article on English Wikipedia, including tips and
tricks on English Wikipedia policies
- Using the content translation tool to create it in another language
Wikipedia that you speak
The course will meet via Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 14:00 UTC, from
June 24 to July 19, 2024.
If you join us, you'll receive:
- Guidance from an English Wikipedia expert (Ian's an admin who's been
editing for 20 years!)
- Getting to know a cohort of other Wikimedians around the world who
care about how the climate crisis affects their country
- A certificate of completion that can be added to your LinkedIn profile
Sign up here:
https://wikiedu.org/courses/global-approaches-to-climate-finance-for-wikipe…
Want to see what an article might look like? Ian's started drafting the
article on climate finance in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guettarda/Sandbox_55
We hope you can join us!
-The Wiki Education team