Re: [Foundation-l] Update on outreach projects

Hi all, Here is a short update about some ongoing and new projects of the Wikimedia Foundation's outreach department: (1) Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor It is my pleasure to announce that Aradhana Datta Ravindra started in April to help us as a contractor. She will assist with structuring and managíng the work for the Bookshelf Project. Aradhana has over ten years experience as a Learning Strategist and is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Recently, she drove Palm's mobile learning initiative from functional and project management perspectives. Prior to that, she worked for Nokia where she designed, implemented and managed a mobile learning inititiative for the organization. (2) Instructional video released Last week, we released our first educational video, covering the concepts of "Verifiability" and "Neutral point of view". It is a 2-minute video, produced by Common Craft and released under an CC-by-SA 3.0 license: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verifiability_and_Neutral_point_of_… Many of you will know Common Craft as producers of witty videos which are understandable to users with any level of computer proficiency. Common Crafts strength is to introduce complex subjects with paper cut-outs in a fun and accessible way. If you are curious about how Common Craft produces these videos, please have a look at the following story on their blog: http://www.commoncraft.com/scenes-common-craft-video-shoot (3) Upcoming new outreach initiative Rod Dunican, who joined us as an Education Program Manager, will lead a new outreach initiative which we are about to launch. The goal of this initiative will be to significantly increase the quality of Wikipedia's articles in a particular subject area. Additionally, we are planning to create structures that will support continued improvement after the Initiative's conclusion. Right now, we are working on a FAQ that will be published later this week. I will let you know once it is online. Thanks, Frank ----- NB. This mail address is used for public mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l