Hello all,
The Wikipedia Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on just
this: figuring out what initiatives are happening in education all around
the world, keep track of them, record what they are doing, what works and
what does not work, and document that so that we can then spread the word
about worldwide best practices and learnings that we have observed. Leigh
mentions the education portal which is in the midst of its revamp (thanks
for pointing that out Leigh!), and that will be the place where we will be
sharing those learnings.
We hope to help volunteers worldwide so that they will not have to reinvent
the wheel themselves and need to go through the exact same learning curve
as others in other parts of the world. So yes, each country/region is
different, but there are definitely trends or initiatives that can be
spotted and applied in different settings.
As far as having an official agreement with the government on using
Wikipedia editing in education is concerned, to my knowledge there are now
three countries who have something in place: Uruguay, Serbia and Israel.
Yay for all three of them, I think they are setting some awesome precedents
here!
If anyone would like to know more, please feel free to contact me or my
colleagues Tighe Flanagan, Anna Koval and Rod Dunican.
Best,
Floor
Floor Koudijs
Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 x6806
fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Charles Andrès <
charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In this sense the WMF has done a great job with
several brochures, but
obviously they are in English and we do not have an efficient way to
translate and localized them.
In an effort to make translation and localization as easy as possible, we
have set up on-wiki translation for all the brochures
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures>, and Sage put
together a fairly detailed localization guide
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_guidelines_(Bookshelf)/Editing_Wikipedia>
to walk volunteers through using Scribus or InDesign to put together the
print documents. It's by no means a quick process, but we're hoping to get
more materials localized and make it more efficient :)
I'd be happy to help anyone move from a complete on-wiki
translation/localization to a print layout document in your local language!
Cheers,
Tighe
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Tighe Flanagan
Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 x6880
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
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