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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Anna Koval, M.Ed.
Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 x 6729

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jirka Daněk <dnk@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.


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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