Dear all, Dear activists for free knowledge in education,

since we are new to this list: first a "Hello" to all of you!

Throughout the last years Wikimedia Deutschland has gained a lot of experience in the educational field. Working in this sector, we had a lot of different programs and activities running quite separated and isolated. In the last year we collected this know-how and combined these efforts. Coming from this idea of separated programs, our perspective is now, to follow a wider approach in education and to overcome the very specialized approach we have followed before. This step was helpful for the development of all running programs and the effective distribution of needed resources in education at Wikimedia Deutschland (until the end of 2011, these were highschool teachers/students, elderly people and universities). It makes our work more efficient leveraging all synergies and helped us to be accessable not only for special target groups but for all people!

We are only following this approach for a few months and many things are new to us, but we are sure that other chapters and Wikipedians also have similar success-stories to share in education. It would be very helpful to exchange ideas and approaches between different partners in the wikimedia movement active in the educational sector and get feedback to ideas concerning educational activities.

A good opportunity to meet is the Wikimania 2012 in Washington. Here we will offer a meeting table on Thursday July 12th called “Wikipedia in education” where we can get together. See more and sign in herehttp://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups#Wikipedia_in_Education .

If you are not able to join this year’s Wikimania we are open to hear feedback from you and to discuss questions and ideas. Let’s collaborate in the educational global wikimedia movement! We are looking forward to meeting some of you soon to share our knowledge.

sincerely,

Elly Köpf and Denis Barthel (and sorry for crossposting)

i.A. Elly Köpf Projektmanagerin

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de

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