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Wikimedia Macedonia & NUBSK cooperation, workshop for librarians
by Dimce Grozdanoski 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Dear All, Wikimedia Macedonia (WMMK) and National Library (NUBSK) continue with their cooperation. Today WMMK have presentation/workshop about Wikipedia and other wikimedia projects like Commons and Wikisource for librarians in NUBSK and in other libraries which are part of national library network. Also National Library express their ready to give educational courses about librarian related stuff if there are interested wikipedians to learn something new and practice. Cheers, Dimce Grozdanoski Wikimedia Macedonia

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Open Education 2030 Vision Papers: Booklet online
by Mina Theofilatou 30 May '13

30 May '13

Members of list, please find info below... thanks:-) Dear Christine, In response to your invitation to disseminate our visions, I am CCing my reply to the Wikimedia Education list, to which I am subscribed, and I look forward to hearing about the findings of the Seville workshop that was completed yesterday. (As regards the comments link on the blog page, it's a good thing that it was cleaned from spam, but it's still "dead". Is there any chance of it becoming active again? I'm quite certain fellow Europeans on the Wikipedia Education List will be interested in participating in the dialogue, but for the time being we have no way of doing so!) To members of the list: Open Education is an EU initiative described as (copy-paste) "A joint space for developing visions on the future of Open Education in Europe" http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/openeducation2030/ I participated in the call for vision papers with the submission "The Open Community in the School of Today" (direct link here, or look at p. 110 of PDF booklet), in which Wikimedia plays an active role. I learned about the Call for Papers in a message forwarded to the list by Everton Zanella Alvarenga (thanks Tom!) Looking forward to feedback:-) Regards, Mina (Saintfevrier) ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine.REDECKER(a)ec.europa.eu Cc: Jonatan.CASTANO-MUNOZ(a)ec.europa.eu Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:19 PM Subject: Vision Papers: Booklet online Dear authors, I am pleased to inform you that the booklet with vision papers on Open School Education is now online as well. I posted the links on the first page of the blog to give your papers more visibility (http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/openeducation2030/). Please do disseminate our joint production widely and encourage colleagues, friends and your professional networks and groups to discuss your visions. Best regards, Christine & Jonatan Dr. Christine Redecker European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) Edificio Expo; c/ Inca Garcilaso, 3; E-41092 Sevilla, SPAIN Phone: +34 954 48 84 23 Fax: +34 954 48 82 08 christine.redecker(a)ec.europa.eu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.

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Conclusion of Brede Værk project
by Ole Palnatoke Andersen 22 May '13

22 May '13

Today, we concluded the Brede Værk project* that has run for the last three weeks on the Danish-language Wikipedia. Students from Ørestad Gymnasium** and Det frie Gymnasium*** have been writing articles about the industrialisation in Denmark, based on materials from Brede Værk****, which is part of the National Museum*****. The project first appeared on our radar in July 2010, so things do not always move as fast as we would love them to. The students were assigned sandboxes to allow them to create their own articles with minimal interference. Three of the articles have now been "promoted" to the main namespace, while two others need to be merged into pre-existing articles, one needs a general improvement, and one needs to be merged with an article that a group of students created when they tried to avoid damaging another group's work. The three-week process has been frustrating (generally in a good way), but apparently the fear of changing someone else's text is something we need to work on. We plan to have more collaboration with the gymnasiums and the museum in the autumn. *) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Brede_V%C3%A6rk **) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98restad_Gymnasium ***) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_frie_Gymnasium ****) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brede_V%C3%A6rk *****) http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalmuseet Regards, Ole -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588

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Greek projects
by Konstantinos Stampoulis 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello, the last 2-3 years I run a number of projects in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. They were done with the invitation and cooperation of dr. Bratsas from OKFN Greece. Two of the projects were with a postgraduate class on web science of the School of Mathematics of AUTH and another one (for two years) was with an undergraduate course (medical education) of the Medical School of AUTH, which involved the translation of medical articles from english to greek wikipedia . Both had very good results, especially the last project with the medical students ( http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Ιατ…). They translated so many excellent articles (we had given them a selection of top and high importance articles, of FA-class to B-class: most of them chose FA and A class articles). We had asked them to form teams of two to three students, each with a personal account, to work on the same article, so we had a very good quality instead of asking an article from each student (that would give just a big quantity of bad articles). For wikipedia it was great, as greek wikipedia has many gaps in medical articles, and it is almost impossible to translate articles on an area with such special terminology. The students except all the good things anybody earns from contributing to Wikipedia, trained their vocabulary and english and greek terminology of their science. The professor expressed his interest to do something more than just an assignment. We are organising another project in the School of Mathematics ( http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Μαθ…), with undergraduate students this time. It will be again translation from teams of students, of mathematical articles. This time we are planning it better as we will be using online ambassadors to help with the students, assigning them personally (last time there was just a list of wikipedians willing to help). The assignment will be given to almost 140 students. I have created a logo ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Aristotl…) to use, is it ok or do I need something different since our project is not a part of the official Wikipedia Education Program sponsored by the WMF? Konstantinos Stampoulis geraki(a)geraki.gr http://www.geraki.gr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Οι παραπάνω απόψεις είναι προσωπικές και δεν εκφράζουν παρά μόνο εμένα. Το μήνυμα θεωρείται εμπιστευτικό μόνο εάν το έχω ζητήσει ρητά, διαφορετικά μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση.

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Post from Mexico
by LiAnna Davis 15 May '13

15 May '13

A great post from Leigh Thelmadatter and one of her students about the awesome educational activities happening at one school in Mexico: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/15/education-program-mexico/ Thanks, Leigh! LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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Post from Sweden
by LiAnna Davis 13 May '13

13 May '13

Another great post from our friends in the Swedish program -- I'm exhausted just reading about all of their activities! Thanks for sharing, Sophie. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/13/wikipedia-education-program-update-swe… LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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IEG Committee members and WikiProject Medicine at USCF medical education pilot
by ENWP Pine 12 May '13

12 May '13

Below is a link to a presentation called "WikiProject Medicine for Medical Education". Two of the people mentioned in this presentation are Ocaasi (Jake Orlowitz) and Jmh649 (Dr. James Heilman, MD, CCFP-EM). Quote from http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter/Newsroom: "Big news, UCSF has proposed a 4th-year medical elective, for credit, in which students would choose and improve a medical topic on Wikipedia. This is the first medical school education project we have heard of, ever!" Although this was first annou Here's a link to a presentation which was just noted on the Outreach wiki: https://www.dropbox.com/l/IlZ2gDoenHOttj9QJkBG19 This looks awesome. Pine

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Program Evaluation and Design Workshop - Apply to attend! - June 22-23, Budapest
by Sarah Stierch 08 May '13

08 May '13

[please pardon this crossposting] Hello everyone! I am pleased to announce the first Program Evaluation and Design Workshop! - *When*: 22–23 June 2012 - *Where*: Budapest, Hungary The application process is now open. We have only 20 slots available for this workshop and the application deadline ends on May 17th. This two-day event will be followed by a pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013. Ideally, applicants would commit to attending both events. *Why are we offering this workshop?* Over the next couple of years, the Wikimedia Foundation will be building capacity among program leaders around evaluation and program design. A better understanding of how to increase impact through better planning, execution and evaluation of programs & activities will help us to move a step closer to achieving our mission of offering a free, high quality encyclopedia to our readers around the world. *What will take place at this and the following workshops?* Our long-term goals are: 1. Participants gain a basic shared understanding of program evaluation 2. Participants will work collaboratively to map and prioritize measurable outcomes, beginning with a focus on the most commopn program & activities 3. Participants will gain increased fluency in common language of evaluation (i.e. goals versus objectives, inputs & outputs versus outcomes & impact) 4. Participants will learn and practice how to extract and report data using the UserMetrics API 5. Participants will commit to working as a community of evaluation leaders who will implement evaluation strategies in their programmatic activities and report back at the pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013 6. …and participants will have a lot of fun and enjoy networking with other program leaders! We will publish a detailed agenda for the event in Budapest soon on meta. *Which programs & activities are we going to focus on?* During the workshop in Budapest, we will only have a limited amount of time. Therefore, we will be focusing on the some of the more common programs & activities: - *Wikipedia editing workshops* where participants learn how to or actively edit (i.e. edit-a-thon, wikiparty, hands-on Wikipedia workshop) - *Content donations* through partnerships with GLAMs & related organizations - *Wiki Takes/Expeditions* where volunteers participate in day/weekend events to photograph site specific content - *Wiki Loves Monuments* which takes place in September - *Education program/classroom editing* where volunteers support educators who have students editing Wikipedia in the classroom - *Writing competitions* which generally take place online in the form of contests, WikiCup, and challenges – often engaging experienced editors to improve content. *Who should apply?* Community members who play an *active role* in planning and executing programs & activities as described above in the Wikimedia community. Your experience and knowledge will make this workshop a success! *What about the costs for travel and accomodation?* Hotels, flights and other transportation costs will be on your chapter; the Wikimedia Foundation will provide the venue, handouts, breakfasts and light lunches, and a dinner for all participants on Saturday. If you're not affiliated with a chapter and cannot afford to attend the event, please send me a private email – we have a small amount of money set aside for those cases. Applications are open until May 17. You can apply via this Google Form<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/11yCoOls5ae8FqAXIdp9Tua76il…> . Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to a great group of participants! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch** Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator *Donate<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>today and keep it free! Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!

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A suggestion
by Sophie Österberg 08 May '13

08 May '13

Dear all, I'm so curious to know more about what everybody does within their education programmes around the world, especially after hearing about what Jan Ainali at Wikimedia Sverige has told me about the education day in Milan. So, I thought about how we best may share this, and this may definitely not be the absolutely best idea but I'll just send it out to you to see what you might think. So, I've put the people together that I know work with education and in or in close collaboration with Wikimedia in one or another way, in groups of three. You may see this here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ?key=0Askq1OTvde8HdFdjMURpNXNyY1JXaDdPeTRFbS1tMUE&usp=sharing So my first idea is to simply have a hangout in these groups where we share ideas about our various education programmes. It would be great to hear something about: * Structure of the programme * Current activities * Successes * Mistakes (or rather, things to learn from) Please do add any aspects you may find relevant for a talk like this. I would suggest that these conversations are to take place in May if that may be possible, and that we briefly summarise what we have learned during these talks so we can all take part of everybody's conversations. The reason I only put three per groups is to make it easier to find a time that works for everyone, and also to make time for dialogue which is may be better with fewer people. Please do let me know what you think about this, and if someone is forgotten, please do add yourself to the list, we may be four in groups (and it is four in a group already). And do you generally find this to be a good idea? My hope is that this will have us learn from each other, and to feel more connected with our various educational efforts and ideas. I wish you all a great weekend! *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg 0733-832670 sophie.osterberg(a)wikimedia.se* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. *

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Profile of professor in Brazil program
by LiAnna Davis 08 May '13

08 May '13

Just posted: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/08/rafael-pezzi-profile/ I love this quote from him: “Wikipedia makes it explicit how knowledge is built: a never-ending dynamic process with conflicting opinions in a lively discussion. Although this process is fundamental, it is ignored in the standard textbook-based class where knowledge is just given, considered as an absolute truth.” -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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