Dear Jirka Daněk,
Thank you for reaching out to the Wikimedia Education mailing list. It's
great to hear from you and I am happy that you are interested in using
Wikipedia in Education! :)
Yes, the Czech Chapter are the right people to talk to. They are wonderful
and their WEP (Wikipedia Education Program) is strong and long-standing.
They will be excellent advisors to you and your students. I am cc'ing
Vojtěch Dostál, who is not only a long-time Czech Wikipedian, but also a
mentor in our international Education Collaborative. He will connect you
with the right contact in the chapter.
I'd also direct you to this page on Outreach wiki, where the Global
Education Program lives. It links to the various online trainings available
to help onboard you and your students.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Trainings
Sincere thanks to Kavya, Amir, Leigh, and John for their very helpful
replies.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to us again for more support!
All the best,
Anna :)
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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jirka Daněk <dnk(a)mail.muni.cz> wrote:
Hello,
I am a teaching assistant in ONLINE_A, e-learning English course at
Masaryk University, Czech Republic. This course is structured around
students completing various English practice tasks and in that way gaining
points towards credit. I came up with the idea to make writing a Wikipedia
article one of those tasks. The course is relatively large, but since this
is going to be one of the more difficult tasks available and only the more
advanced students can actually do it, I assume there would be only about 6
to 12 students every semester doing this task. I would not be able to coach
more of them anyways. The students are unlikely to have previous editor
experience on WIkipedia. To accommodate for that, I plan to have them
translate an article from Czech to English Wikipedia and instruct them to
refer to an existing similar article on English Wikipedia to get a feel for
what they need to create.
Example: Translate
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Tu%C4%8Dn%C3%BD
as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Tu%C4%8Dn%C3%BD referring to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers as a source of inspiration.
I am looking for an existing Wikimedia Education initiative under which
this initiative of my could be put into practice. I found "Studenti píší
Wikipedii" at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/Czech_Republic.
Is it the correct bunch of people to turn to, given that I target WIkipedia
in English, not the Czech one?
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