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The Wiki Education Foundation is committed to publishing evaluation reports about our new programmatic work, and I'm happy to announce our newest report, on our Wikidata courses.
Here's the blog post about it: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/10/16/widening-wikidatas-impact/
And the report itself if you're interested in a lot of information! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikidata_Program_E...
Many thanks to our Wikidata Program Manager, Will Kent, who both ran the program and authored the report with support from other colleagues. We're happy to answer any questions on the talk page on Meta if you have them.
LiAnna
Fantastic! WikiEdu is truly a Capacity Building ‘Unit’ (ref.: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen... )
I hope we get a OER metadata format which works with zero pixels, audio only https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166929#5477272
Best regards, Jim
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:20 PM LiAnna Davis lianna@wikiedu.org wrote:
(please excuse the cross-post)
The Wiki Education Foundation is committed to publishing evaluation reports about our new programmatic work, and I'm happy to announce our newest report, on our Wikidata courses.
Here's the blog post about it: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/10/16/widening-wikidatas-impact/
And the report itself if you're interested in a lot of information! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikidata_Program_E...
Many thanks to our Wikidata Program Manager, Will Kent, who both ran the program and authored the report with support from other colleagues. We're happy to answer any questions on the talk page on Meta if you have them.
LiAnna
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Dear Wikipedians,
I am partnering with a professor who wants their students to write in Arabic language Wikipedia. However, the students are at the beginning and intermediate level. One option we are considering is a Wikidata related project.
If you have any recommendations or contacts who might advise on possible activities, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you very much for any suggestions that you might have.
Best wishes, Laura
Laura Jenemann
Communication, Media, & Film Librarian Boston University 617-353-9240
ljeneman@bu.edumailto:ljeneman@bu.edu
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 15:44, Jenemann, Laura ljeneman@bu.edu wrote:
I am partnering with a professor who wants their students to write in Arabic language Wikipedia. However, the students are at the beginning and intermediate level. One option we are considering is a Wikidata related project.
Three options spring to mind
* have them translate Wikipedia articles *from* Arabic *to* their native language. * have the add Arabic labels and description to items in Wikidata; have them work in pairs, reviewing each others' work * have them work on Arabic lexemes in Wikidata
Hi,
For beginners or even intermediate students, translating articles may be too much of a reach. Seconding one of Andy's other ideas, they could easily add Arabic descriptions to Wikidata items. I see a lot of Wikidata items that lack descriptions in very many languages. This can also be a good exploratory exercise for Wikidata. How are their favorite movies, TV shows, authors, artists, represented? What about the place they are from? Institutions in their hometown? Seeing which of these have articles in Arabic and seeing what the difference between the English and Arabic language articles is could also be a good jumping off point for translation.
I'm assuming the other instructor is familiar with Arabic Wikipedia policies?
Keep us posted on what you and the students accomplish!
Merrilee
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:21 AM Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 15:44, Jenemann, Laura ljeneman@bu.edu wrote:
I am partnering with a professor who wants their students to write in
Arabic
language Wikipedia. However, the students are at the beginning and intermediate level. One option we are considering is a Wikidata related project.
Three options spring to mind
- have them translate Wikipedia articles *from* Arabic *to* their
native language.
- have the add Arabic labels and description to items in Wikidata;
have them work in pairs, reviewing each others' work
- have them work on Arabic lexemes in Wikidata
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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