I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost
anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically
sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in
any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or
unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same
sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories
from many other educators across a range of fields.
kindest regards
Andrew (Perth, Australia)
On 21 December 2011 12:59, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Everton Zanella
Alvarenga
<everton137(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to point out a discussion I've just started on Wikiversity
asking if they are using this project as part of the Wikipedia
ambassadors program
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_and_Wikip…
and ask you if you know of any other Wikimedia Foundation project,
beyond Wikipedia, involved in the Ambassadors program. If some case
you know to tell us is not in English or some Romanic language, I'd
like to read your experience about it.
Wikimedia Commons has been significantly involved in the Ambassadors
program, in a couple of courses focused on the creation of videos and
diagrams:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program_stu…
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Also, a short comment bellow about a point of
Juan's nice description
(thanks!) about Czech Republic situation of its educational sector.
2011/12/19 Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojnikov(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia.
There is
> a luck of mentors for them and they have to
face both technical
(wikisyntax,
> templates, standards) and social problems
(unpleasant users, lack of
social
> interaction, just templates on their
discussion page). Thus we have
agreed
> to focus on setting up some features from
en.wp such gadget Cite[2] or
> Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the information
> that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to WYSIWYG editor
for
> Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that
most of the good tools from
WMF
might be
reject by the local community.
What about using Wikiversity in Czech <http://cs.wikiversity.org/> for
these social problems you mention? I've seen similar comments on
Wikiversity to be more hospitable than Wikipedia (see, for instance,
the last note in blue here <http://diigo.com/0lzhd>), from volunteers
of both English and Portuguese languages projects.
Best wishes,
Tom
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