Hi,
The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year!
I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC - but during the semesters.)
If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future?
PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked.
Best,
John
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This is a very interesting idea and could be targeted both at technical work assignments as well as research assignments at all levels. However, to be viable, we probably need to have some information available to the students on the codebase and whatever else is required to be immediately productive. Maybe that could be the first assignments!
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From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Andersson Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2014 5:48 AM To: Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment
Hi,
The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year!
I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/?csw=1 - but during the semesters.)
If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future?
PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked.
Best,
John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sverige Project Manager
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se mailto:JohnAndersson86@hotmail.com Skype: johnandersson86
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John Andersson, 10/11/2014 20:48:
we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student
Interesting! But, sorry for the stupid questions, how can this work? Are you talking of thesis as in final work for the degree? Does it mean the student can decide the thesis on their own? What does the staff have to do with it? How are external entities allowed to propose theses? https://studyinsweden.se/study-information/degree-programmes/masters-studies... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#Sweden are not particularly useful to explain.
In Italy the bachelor/master thesis is in practice proposed by the prof./teacher and the university staff has no say whatsoever in it. (Let alone the state; that would even be against the constitution, probably.)
Nemo
I'd just see it as a pool of ideas which could be used by student, staff, the state or whoever decides these things in that particular context.
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On 11 Nov 2014, at 9:36 am, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
John Andersson, 10/11/2014 20:48:
we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student
Interesting! But, sorry for the stupid questions, how can this work? Are you talking of thesis as in final work for the degree? Does it mean the student can decide the thesis on their own? What does the staff have to do with it? How are external entities allowed to propose theses? https://studyinsweden.se/study-information/degree-programmes/masters-studies... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#Sweden are not particularly useful to explain.
In Italy the bachelor/master thesis is in practice proposed by the prof./teacher and the university staff has no say whatsoever in it. (Let alone the state; that would even be against the constitution, probably.)
Nemo
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I am also a bit confused about what you are asking, particularly with regards to the word thesis.
Are you asking for a list of possible student assignments regarding Wikipedia? As in - topics they can write about? On Wikipedia? About Wikipedia?
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On 11/11/2014 04:48, John Andersson wrote:
Hi,
The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year!
I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? Wewould especially like more ideas regarding /technical assignments/that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/?csw=1- but during the semesters.)
If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future?
PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked.
Best,
John
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