New subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7

13 Nov 2014

      Hi Kerry,
I agree that both aspects could be very relevant and rewarding to work on. You wrote "we probably need to have some information available to the students on the codebase and whatever else is required to be immediately productive", could you expand a bit about what you mean? Are you thinking about improving the documentation? Have you already identified some weak spots?
John
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List of student research assignment (John Andersson)
Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond)
Re: List of student research assignment (Federico Leva (Nemo))
Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond)

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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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