Really cool! Thanks so much for the update. Excited to see how this
progresses going forward.
2012/2/21 Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz>
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-quality 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.
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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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