We wrote a short report on the Czech Ambassador Program, just in case anyone is
interested... :-)Czech Ambassador Program(key notes (as of 20 February 2012))* The program
has been officially running for approx. 8 months now; mainpage available at
http://ambasadorstvi.wikimedia.cz (Czech only)* We are a small group of approximately 5
ambassadors and a few sympathisers. We have consulted our goals with each other (on a
meeting in Prague) and with other similar initiatives (mainly people from the US
ambassador program)* We currently operate mainly in Prague (Institute for Environmental
Studies, Faculty of Science, Pedagogical Faculty), to a lesser extent in Olomouc
(Philosophical Faculty). New project is currently being prepared in Brno (Philosophical
Faculty). Some more projects are in the state of development (two secondary schools in
Prague).* The ambassadors are free to decide their project‘s rules. We have developed two
different strategies: ** The first brings high-qu
ality articles, but is very time-consuming, as it involves regular meetings with students
and helping them, as well as a lot of editing work. Example: Institute for Environmental
Studies** The second brings average-quality articles (at best), but needs little
maintenance (for example, just a help page for the students + explaining how to ask for
help on Wikipedia + some editing work). Example: Immunology at Faculty of Science* We
found out that the best way to start new projects is to advertise the ambassador program
as much as possible. It has proven of almost no use to „tell the teachers“ into
establishing their projects. The motivation of the teacher is highest when he/she
personally contacts us.* We have published a long interview with Petr Broz (user:Chmee2)
in a national newspaper „Právo“ about Wikipedia, putting stress on his ambassador project
at the Institute for Environmental Studies. * New teachers are contacting us, willing to
start their own ambassador
project.---
Statistics for the winter term 2012:* Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles
University – finished, 30 high-quality articles **see English report at:
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_Chr%C3%A1n%C4%9Bn%C3%A1_…
* Immunology at Faculty of Science, Charles University – in progress, currently 6 articles
**see list of articles at:
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ambasadorstv%C3%AD/Pokroky_z_imunolo… * Art
History at Philosophical Faculty, University of Palacky – in progress, currently about 40
articles that need some editing work (data incomplete)**see list of articles at
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ambasadorstv%C3%AD/Filozofick%C3%A1_…
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Vojtěch Dostál
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