I'm writing to share an update on the way forward as far as making sure that we adequately capture all the learnings possible from the India Education Program. We also want to make sure that these learnings are robust and are incorporated into the core program design going forward. We also would like these learnings to also be of an adequately granular level so that we can identify trends of what doesn't work and what might work better - such as year of students, nature of faculty involvement, subject area, etc.
We are planning multiple channels to capture, analyse and incorporate these learnings.
WMF has commissioned a researcher, Tory Read, to conduct an evaluative study of the IEP and provide recommendations for improvement. Over the course of next few days, she will be interviewing several teachers, students, CAs, Directors, admins and other wikipedia editors from the global community to take their input and views about IEP. She has already spoken to staff in SF, spent the day with us in Delhi and will be in Pune over the next 4 days conducting face-to-face interviews. She will also be reaching out to community members outside of Pune. She will then write an evaluative story about what worked, what did not and learnings from the the pilot.
A series of video interviews were done by a Campus Ambassador in Pune - Abhishek Suryawanshi who conducted interviews with students, professors and Campus Ambassadors in Pune. We promised all interviewees that any personal identifying information would be removed from this analysis to encourage them to speak freely.
In addition, India Programs consultants (Hisham & I) and Wikimedia Foundation staff (Frank Schulenburg and LiAnna Davis) are interviewing experienced Wikipedia editors from India and across the world. Please do reply offlist if any one of us can contact you to ask your views (if we already have not.)
We want to collate data points to be able to analyze and draw out trends. Here is an example of data that we're trying to dig out (and this is just a sub-set of a preliminary list)
What's the amount of data that students have added to Wikipedia? What's the amount of data that got reverted? What's the net amount of information that the students have added on Wikipedia?
How many students edited articles outside of their in-class assignments?
How many student's got warnings on their talk pages? How many students corrected their errors after these warnings?
How many students got blocked? / How many students got blocked more than once?
At the WikiConference India we also had a IEP round table where we invited a couple of students, professors and campus ambassadors to share their personal views and experience working with IEP pilot. I'm going to upload the video if it's possible and share this with you. It was a very useful session where we discussed many of the points that will inform our future work - such as determining whether it should be voluntary or not, what student's were thinking while they engaged in copy-pasting into their articles, improvements to Campus Ambassador training, ideas on what kind of professors can work best on a project of this nature, etc.
The Learnings Page is my *very* preliminary draft at collating learnings from the pilot and exploring how how we can incorporate these in our way forward.
We will shortly summaries of all these findings as and when they are ready - and welcome an open discussion on them.
Do please share your thoughts and suggestions on the above. Please also do let me know if I've missed out anything.
Thanks
Nitika
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From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Women & Wikimedia
To: wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone!
I wanted to let you know about a survey that I am running for female
contributors to any Wikimedia project. It is being ran by me as an
independent volunteer, *not* on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDR3a3JfaTd0a…
If you are a female contributor and you are comfortable working in English,
please participate, and if you know any female contributors, please share
it with them.
Thanks so much!
Sarah Stierch
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We recently completed a Hackathon in India where the themes were:
* localization
* mobile
* offline
In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts
of India added their hard work and insights to the technical
foundation of Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers
contributed to 17 features, as listed here (features that were worked
on are marked with an "H"):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon
We also got support and input from most of the major mobile operators
in India about how to make our user experience better. Free access to
Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified
several forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia
Zero. For example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an
RSS feed of the Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India
are important.
This was our first hackathon in India and all in all, it was a
resounding success.
For those of you who were at the event, many thanks and
congratulations for your achievements in such a short period of time!
We certainly hope you continue to stay involved and continue to
contribute.
IRC is a good way for developers to stay in touch. Join
wikimedia-mobile on irc.freenode.net.
Regards,
Phil
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On 11/28/2011 08:43 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:12:41 +0530
> From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Apart from studying ourselves, It would also be interesting to do a case
> study of similar student participatory programs and take best practices and
> incorporate them. Google Summer of Code would be a classic example, though
> its a summer contract, but some of the aspects are worth comparing.
>
> 1. GSoC has a steep(okay relatively much higher) barrier to entry to
> attract the cream of students inturn the number of students would be
> significantly less.
> 2. Many students continue to contribute to the organization / open source
> in general beyond the contract
> 3. Strong staging process to cross the gates(merging the codeline happens
> mostly post final evaluation) ensures impact of the student does not affect
> the community.
> 4. Many communities are largely happy to participate in GSoC since they
> usually get contributors to the community.
> 5. Communication models that exist in the program, typically there would be
> hardly anyone from the city / country for that matter to mentor. The
> communication happens online inspite of timezone differences.
> 6. GSoC gives a huge money as motivation, but most students join the
> program for reasons beyond money though they swipe the cards :D
>
> There are few students on this list who took the same program with WMF,
> they could share some insights too!
I managed MediaWiki's participation in Google Summer of Code this year,
and could talk with anyone interested in participating, anyone
researching it, and anyone who is curious. :-) We try to document our
participation on mediawiki.org wiki pages. Some useful resources:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
For some quantitative analysis of our past participation, Max Semenik's
analysis page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MaxSem/GSoC_analysis
The four Indian students from this year's participation were Devayon
Das, Yuvi Panda, Akshay Agarwal, and Ankit Garg. You can read more
about this year's participants at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
But of course there are about 170 other organizations that participated
in Google Summer of Code this year. Our experience might differ from
some of theirs.
Any student who is interested in applying to GSoC next year: now is a
good time to start learning about MediaWiki so you'll have a good
proposal when the application time comes in the spring! You can start
with this guide:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker . And
of course I'm happy to give help.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
For completeness, a copy of the message I just sent to the Wikimedia
developers' email list,
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l .
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Subject: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:28:41 -0500
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Earlier this month, Wikimedia staff and volunteers got together in
Mumbai, India to work on mobile, offline, and
internationalisation/localisation.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011
Photos are up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas#Hackathon_Mumbai_2011
Some notes on our outcomes, which included many new localisations for
Kiwix and new input methods for MediaWiki, readying Narayam for
Wikimedia Incubator, a prototype onscreen keyboard built in Narayam,
Wikimedia Mobile ready for translation, new UI prototypes for language
selection, and more:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#Day_1_ou…
And I haven't even touched on mobile! An update specifically on mobile
progress at the hackathon:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2011-November/005200.html
-- Summary from Phil Chang:
> In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts of
> India added their hard work and insights to the technical foundation of
> Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers contributed to 17 features,
> as listed here (features that were worked on are marked with an "H"):
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon
>
> We also got support and input from most of the major mobile operators in
> India about how to make our user experience better. Free access to
> Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified several
> forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia Zero. For
> example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an RSS feed of the
> Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India are important.
I'm asking Emmanuel to send an offline-related summary to
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l . And I'm
predicting the localization folks will have a summary in their next
showcase; watch
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n .
This was the largest Wikimedia tech outreach event I've been a part of,
with 80 or so new folks learning and becoming contributors. Thanks to
the Wikimedia staffers who came, for -- as Alolita put it -- "leading
project teams to do some nice development, UI design, testing and
accomplishing a lot in a short blip of time." Thanks to the local
community and chapter for putting on Wiki Conference India, which
happened at the same time:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011
Sorry to be brief; more details are at the links provided. I know that
the i18n team also led a translation sprint and an intro to MediaWiki
hacking in Pune after the Mumbai hackathon, but I'll leave it to them in
case they want to report about that.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On 11/24/2011 11:18 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:30:52 +0530
> From: Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas(a)hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup
> To: Wikimedia India List <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <COL102-W21ADAC28301E54D1ACB87A85CE0(a)phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> hi Sumana,
>
> Thanks for that update and also thanks to the Engineering team at WMF for the Hackathon. Any possibilities on developers meeting each other and newbies attending these? Also, any possibilities to catch up for those who missed the session in Mumbai?
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep Mohandas
Pradeep,
Thanks for your note! I am glad that the Wikimedia Foundation was able
to help out and that I got to meet so many interesting people at the
hackathon.
If I am reading your question right, you are interested in future
hackathons and other technical events? We are tentatively planning to
run a hackathon in February in Pune, alongside GNUnify
http://gnunify.in/ (GNUnify is 10-11 Feb), but I do not know details
about that yet. And please keep an eye on this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_developer_meetings
and these feeds:
https://twitter.com/MediaWikiMeethttps://identi.ca/mediawikimeet
which tell you about upcoming meetings in physical and virtual space.
You asked about catching up, for those who missed the Mumbai hackathon.
We did not record any of the sessions of the hackathon (I'm sorry), but
the Technical Liaisons and Developer Relations group is working on
improving our documentation on mediawiki.org, starting with these
recordings and materials:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Training…
You might also be interested in some of the recent presentations we've
given:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations
And Erik added a lot of links to his online notes from his plenary session:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_n…
If there is anything specific that you're eager to learn more about,
please let us know by asking in our group chat channel
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#mediawiki -- that's the fastest
way to get pointers to more information!
And if you'd like for more hackathons and other technical events to
happen in your area, I can try to help. And of course you can set up an
event on your own as well! Thanks.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Please consider
nominating<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_…>articles
for Collaboration of the Month (COTM).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_…
Upto 5 articles can be selected for the COTM so plenty of scope available
for nomination of the month. It is proposed to close nominations on 30
November 2011 and selections for month of December 2011 made from whatever
we have. As of now, two are promising candidates - Mullaperiyar dam and
Manmohan Singh.
So dont be shy, be bold, nominate an article. Your favourite article could
get a new lease of life from collaboration.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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I hope this went well?
I didn't see any information on wiki or mailing lists about it.
Mayur might have sent it to the wrong mailing list, I don't see his mail in
Wikimediaindia archives.
Theo
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From: mayur <mayurdce(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi Wikipedians Meetup in New Delhi
To: wikimedia-in-del(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikipedia Hindi <
wikihi-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimediaindia-I(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedians,
I am pleased to inform you that first Hindi
Wikipedian meetup is going to be held at Wikimedia India Office, New
Delhi.All Interested Wikipedians are invited to join this meetup.Meetup
schedule is as following-
Address-
Top Floor, G-15
behind Hauz Khas G-Block market (NOT Main Hauz Khas Market)
just off Aurobindo Marg; near Hauz Khas Metro; near IIT Flyover; near Hauz
Khas Thana
New Delhi - 110 016
Date & Time-
27/11/2011 & 3:00-5:00pm
Regards
(User:Mayur)<http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF:…>
Hey Rohit,
I will do the early two hours. That is six to eight. In the evening, I will do the six to eight pm block. :)
Regards
Harsha
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From: Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>
To: "Wikimedia India Community list" <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:23:58 PM GMT+0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis
Dear Nitika:
I'm most glad this is being done and being shared.
> Here is an example of data that we're trying to dig out (and this is just a
> sub-set of a preliminary list)
A lot of this should be possible via the API - maybe Jace can show us
how we can do it programatically.
> Do please share your thoughts and suggestions on the above. Please also do
> let me know if I've missed out anything.
I'd be curious in looking at the copyvio stuff in greater detail but I
do not know if that adds any value to your research.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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Hiya,
Me and a couple of others have been contacted by a couple of people of stature having Wikipedia articles about themselves recently about the articles having derogatory and inaccurate information about them. Is there any procedure set which such people can follow to have an admin look into their page?
Kind Regards,