P. S. as a personal comment, I remember when I was a physics student I liked very much John Baez because of his clever contributions to things I like to study. [1] Now I discover that his is a wikipedian!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/John_Baez
That can have a huge influence on students. Or even foster WMF plans to make online citation simpler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=522019127
He lives now in California, according to Wikipedia. :)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez#External_links
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, Alex.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson axel.pettersson@wikimedia.se wrote:
Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's using Wikipedia.
That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :)
You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short interviews with some wikipedians with articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles
Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about Wikipedia and the program.
Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on copyright reform and free software here in Brazil:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikiped...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fal...
We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject.
Tom
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser
-- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation