Dear Friends:
Here’s a link to the lecture given at the very beginning of the Wikipedia in Education Project in Uruguay, meant for an audience mainly consisting of teachers with a very vague understanding about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. It was given in November of 2012, and it’s interesting to note how some things have changed since then, with the Foundation having new projects, and with Uruguay involved with the foundation and its projects. There’s now an Uruguayan Chapter, and we believe that we have changed in large degree the perception teachers have of Wikipedia.
I now share the link with you because I have added English subtitles to it, so the lecture can be employed, if it’s considered useful, in other areas, or to have ideas borrowed from it. Although it has been some time since it was given, and as I stated before some things have changed since then, I believe it’s useful, since I consider some of its observations to be timeless.
I would very much like for you to see it, and to hear some comments about it from you.
On another note, I have presented two projects aimed at encouraging the use of Wikipedia in education in my country, I hope to have some news about their approval soon.
Sadly I won’t be able to attend Wikimania because of work related duties, I am currently involved in a governmental project that is going to give out tablets with Internet connectivity to the low income senior citizens of the country, with the goal of improving their social and family inclusion. I will relate more about it in the future, as I believe that it might have a lot of points in common with the use of Wikipedia, for example since many retirees have a lot of knowledge to share once removed from the work life.
Here’s the link to the lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRm7TOOlt0&hl=en
Congratulations to everyone who will be traveling to attend Wikimania 2015.Special high five to our education program folks attending!!Looking forward to seeing you in Mexico City!Samir---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ellie Young <eyoung@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:50 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Wikimania Scholarship Recipients Announced
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Scholarship Committeee and WMF, congratulations to the 104 people who were awarded
a scholarship to attend this year's Wikimania being held in Mexico City July 15-19, 2015. WMDE is sponsoring 13
of these. Other chapters are providing additional scholarships as well, and will announce later on.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2015_WMF_Scholarship_Program
The 2015 program involved a major re-design of the application and selection process. Preliminary outcomes have already been aggregated, including a preliminary list of topics for investigation next year. Highlights include:
• ~28% identified as Female
• ~73% indicated they were from the Global South
• ~26% received a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2014
• Of these repeat applicants, most submitted good/great 2014 post-conference reports
• The average Phase 2 score for recipients was 8.9, with 70% of recipients scoring a 9 or above
See:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/2015_Outcomes
Updated information about registration, accommodations, and the program for Wikimania '15 will be available on or before
May 1, 2015.
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
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