Thank you, Samir!
I need to see updates at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Revision_scoring_as_a_service/Ti…
before I can know what to write. Does the WEF use the WMF's Meta
IdeaLab for grants, too?
Also, I need a login to be able to read
http://wikiedu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Outreach_Pilot
Would you please send me a login to that wiki? I will happily set up a
page with a proposal to pay people to do revision scoring. I would
also like to propose paying people to do
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Accuracy_review
which is like revision scoring, but targeted to things that are most
likely to be wrong, make the most difference when they're wrong,
confuse people when they're wrong, etc. Revision scoring also does
this, but in a potentially less targeted fashion. There may also be a
happier medium between the two approaches, but it seems unlikely that
people will be able to figure out what the space of mediums is without
constructing the endpoints.
Best regards,
James
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Samir Elsharbaty
<selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
First, thank you, James for sharing and reviving interest in revision
scoring. It is really an important aspect of education programs but
unfortunately not many of the program volunteers around the world paid much
attention to it before. I would also like to thank Alex Stinson for sharing
that inspire campaign grant proposal with us. He was right in his
endorsement mentioning the Wiki Education Foundation as they take care
of/manage Wikipedia Education Program in the US and Canada. They would be
the best people to contact concerning Wikipedia education activities there.
It was great that you thought of IdeaLab, James! We always say "Be bold"
which means that it would be better to see your ideas expressed on wiki by
your hands, so, please be bold, start the IdeaLab page and share the link
with us.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Samir
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 10 April 2015 at 07:53, Alex Stinson <sadads(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What's important about the coalition: he is
going to be involving a
number of people active in the Digital Humanities: a field that has
overlapping interests and skills that would be useful for the Wikipedia
Education program, but in which we are only starting to see Wikipedia
approached as a tool of interest.
I would agree with Alex here. Digital Humanities (DH) means different
things to different people, but combines "data led" with "reaches the
parts
others don't" for Wikimedia in an enticing way. It's a big discussion. Just
one point: it helps to think of sister projects (Commons, Wikisource,
Wikidata) coming together in the offering.
Charles
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