Dear Laura,   I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it just seems like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a class for young journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article on what he thinks is the most important news of the week. This could be a refreshing way of recruiting new contributors to sister projects :-).   I will share your project page with colleagues from the Czech community to see if anyone would be interested in something similar to this. Alas, I don't know any potential class from the English-speaking world.   thanks for inspiration, cheers Vojtech Dostal, WMCZ (http://studenti.wikimedia.cz)     ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz&gt;     ______________________________________________________________ On English Wikinews, we recently requested the Education Program extension be installed with the idea of making it easier to recruit classes to participate.  We've set up a "course" for new project participants at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_rep… <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_reporters_(2013)>as a way of testing this.  Any feedback on our test course would be appreciated. :)  How useful is it for potential modeling by instructors? How useful is it for new project participants? That sort of thing.  Feedback would be really, really appreciated as we want to be able to see how this works so we can better assist existing contributors and classes that may use English Wikinews.I've talked to a couple of contributors on English Wikinews and we'd really love to engage more with high school and university courses.  We just lack the people power to do the outreach to attract them at the moment.  Currently, David Blackall at the University of Wollongong has a class using the Wikinews as part of coursework.  He made a video about this available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv> .  If anyone knows any university instructors or high school teachers who might be interested in doing work on English Wikinews, please get in touch with me. :)Sincerely,Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com/> ---------- _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education>

Thanks for the offer, I might get in touch with you if someone is interested. And of course I know there is Czech Wikinews :-), as you say, not very active but decent.   cheers Vojtech   ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz&gt;     ______________________________________________________________ On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Vojtěch Dostál &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz&gt;&gt; wrote: Dear Laura,   I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it just seems like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a class for young journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article on what he thinks is the most important news of the week. This could be a refreshing way of recruiting new contributors to sister projects :-).   There is a Czech language project.  It might not be as active, but if there are some community members there who can get in touch with me, we can try to do some things like assist them in setting up the technical backend to allow their stories to be included in Google News. This broadens the potential audience.  But it is a very good experience for potential journalists because it can provide them with opportunities to assess existing reporting for things like neutrality and accuracy.  It can also allow them to do original reporting, which Wikipedia does not allow. Any support you need that I can provide in English, I would be happy to.Sincerely,Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com/> ---------- _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education>

Thanks for sharing Laura! How would you think that successful outreach would look? Target a few lecturers/teachers and speak about this in person/skype? What are your general suggestions on how outreach may be conducted? Thank you in advance! / sophie 2013/9/28 sibi kanagaraj &lt;civil.sibi1(a)gmail.com&gt; -- *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg sosterberg(a)wikimedia.org* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. *