[please pardon this crossposting]
Hello everyone!
I am pleased to announce the first Program Evaluation and Design Workshop!
- *When*: 22–23 June 2012
- *Where*: Budapest, Hungary
The application process is now open. We have only 20 slots available for
this workshop and the application deadline ends on May 17th. This two-day
event will be followed by a pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013.
Ideally, applicants would commit to attending both events.
*Why are we offering this workshop?* Over the next couple of years, the
Wikimedia Foundation will be building capacity among program leaders around
evaluation and program design. A better understanding of how to increase
impact through better planning, execution and evaluation of programs &
activities will help us to move a step closer to achieving our mission of
offering a free, high quality encyclopedia to our readers around the world.
*What will take place at this and the following workshops?* Our long-term
goals are:
1. Participants gain a basic shared understanding of program evaluation
2. Participants will work collaboratively to map and prioritize
measurable outcomes, beginning with a focus on the most common program &
activities
3. Participants will gain increased fluency in common language of
evaluation (i.e. goals versus objectives, inputs & outputs versus outcomes
& impact)
4. Participants will learn and practice how to extract and report data
using the UserMetrics API
5. Participants will commit to working as a community of evaluation
leaders who will implement evaluation strategies in their programmatic
activities and report back at the pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013
6. …and participants will have a lot of fun and enjoy networking with
other program leaders!
We will publish a detailed agenda for the event in Budapest soon on meta.
*Which programs & activities are we going to focus on?* During the workshop
in Budapest, we will only have a limited amount of time. Therefore, we will
be focusing on the some of the more common programs & activities:
- *Wikipedia editing workshops* where participants learn how to or
actively edit (i.e. edit-a-thon, wikiparty, hands-on Wikipedia workshop)
- *Content donations* through partnerships with GLAMs & related
organizations
- *Wiki Takes/Expeditions* where volunteers participate in day/weekend
events to photograph site specific content
- *Wiki Loves Monuments* which takes place in September
- *Education program/classroom editing* where volunteers support
educators who have students editing Wikipedia in the classroom
- *Writing competitions* which generally take place online in the form
of contests, WikiCup, and challenges – often engaging experienced editors
to improve content.
*Who should apply?* Community members who play an *active role* in
planning and executing programs & activities as described above in the
Wikimedia community. Your experience and knowledge will make this workshop
a success!
*What about the costs for travel and accommodation?* Hotels, flights and
other transportation costs will be on your chapter; the Wikimedia
Foundation will provide the venue, handouts, breakfasts and light lunches,
and a dinner for all participants on Saturday. If you're not affiliated
with a chapter and cannot afford to attend the event, please send me a
private email – we have a small amount of money set aside for those cases.
Applications are open until May 17. You can apply via this Google
Form<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/11yCoOls5ae8FqAXIdp9Tua76il…>
.
Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to a great group of
participants!
Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch**
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and keep it free!
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I was also interested to attend your meetup with Victor Grigas please,am i
also welcome so i can arrange for my traveling.
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> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:54:14 +0200
> From: David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>
> To: Isla Haddow-Flood <islahf(a)africacentre.net>
> Cc: Wikimedia South Africa Mailing List
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> Let's go all out:
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> 1) Message to the mailing list
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> 2) Post on Wikiproject South Africa
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject_south_africa
>
> 3) Post on af.wikipedia.org geselshoekie (village pump)
> http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geselshoekie
>
> 4) Meetup page and geonotice as per
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Isla Haddow-Flood
> <islahf(a)africacentre.net>wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Do you have any idea which Wikipedians are based in Cape Town. We want to
> > do a meetup and a wiki takes... Session while Victor Grigas is here. How
> do
> > we reach them? How many people are on the subscription list?
> >
> > Warmest
> > Isla
> >
> > : :
> > Isla Haddow-Flood
> > Marketing and Communications Manager
> > Project Manager : WikiAfrica
> > www.wikiafrica.org
> > Wikimedia username: Islahaddow
> >
> >
> > *a.* 5th Floor, 28 St George’s Mall, Cape Town *w.** *
> > www.africacentre.net
> > *t.* +27 21 418 3336 *f. *+27 21 418 5385 *skype. *islahaddow
> >
> > The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that provides a
> > platform for
> > exploring contemporary Pan-African cultural practice and knowledge
> > creation
> > as catalysts for social change.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Richfield
> [[:en:User:Slashme]]
> +27718539985
>
Let's go all out:
1) Message to the mailing list
2) Post on Wikiproject South Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject_south_africa
3) Post on af.wikipedia.org geselshoekie (village pump)
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geselshoekie
4) Meetup page and geonotice as per
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Isla Haddow-Flood
<islahf(a)africacentre.net>wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Do you have any idea which Wikipedians are based in Cape Town. We want to
> do a meetup and a wiki takes... Session while Victor Grigas is here. How do
> we reach them? How many people are on the subscription list?
>
> Warmest
> Isla
>
> : :
> Isla Haddow-Flood
> Marketing and Communications Manager
> Project Manager : WikiAfrica
> www.wikiafrica.org
> Wikimedia username: Islahaddow
>
>
> *a.* 5th Floor, 28 St George’s Mall, Cape Town *w.** *
> www.africacentre.net
> *t.* +27 21 418 3336 *f. *+27 21 418 5385 *skype. *islahaddow
>
> The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that provides a
> platform for
> exploring contemporary Pan-African cultural practice and knowledge
> creation
> as catalysts for social change.
>
--
David Richfield
[[:en:User:Slashme]]
+27718539985
Do we know anyone who'd be interested in getting involved with this?
David Richfield
+27718539985
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From: "Victor Grigas" <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 5 May 2013 06:27
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello everyone,
My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in
places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
The campaign is here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign,
please share the link with others!
While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
entirely as a volunteer.
Thanks!
--
*Victor Grigas*
Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
Wikimedia Foundation
vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi all,
I've just realised that repairing our sql tables solved the problems
that we were having! wikilovesmonuments.org.za and wikimedia.org.za
are back up.
Kind regards,
David
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David Richfield
[[:en:User:Slashme]]
+27718539985
Hi Pete,
We would very much like to meet with her and discuss what we can do.
You're quite right about the situation in South African schools. Many
of them still have some combination of:
* very bad infrastructure
* dangerous conditions
* unreliable delivery of teaching materials
* little or no access to computers.
We are a relatively young chapter, but have done some outreach
programs, and we're eager to build our network. We are in contact
with Iolanda Pensa who is very keen to help develop offline Wikipedia
as a teaching tool in Africa, and have some allied organisations who
can also help. We're also extremely keen to find teachers and schools
who might be interested in using translation of Wikipedia articles
into various South African languages as a teaching tool.
So, bottom line, please do put her in contact with us: let's see how
far we can help to get each other connected.
Kind regards,
David
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Pete Forsyth <pete(a)wikistrategies.net> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Richard Knipel (User:Pharos) recommended that I reach out to you.
>
> I met a woman at the Connexions conference. She is from a school district in
> South Africa (I don't know exactly where) that is really struggling. It
> sounded very severe -- many different kinds of problems, including whether
> or how computers are incorporated into the curriculum, and ultimately none
> (or very few) of the students are able to pass standard exams.
>
> She is meeting next week with somebody from the Ministry of Education. She
> is developing her pitch/request and wondering, among many other things, if
> she should be engaging with Wikimedia. As a Wikipedian, I of course
> mentioned Wikimedia South Africa to her, and she was very interested. (She
> attended my Introduction to Wikipedia session.)
>
> I would like to know, candidly -- is this a situation where Wikimedia South
> Africa has something substantial to offer, or is her attention better
> directed elsewhere? After having talked with her more thoroughly, it seems
> to me like Wikimedia might generally not be a great resource for a district
> struggling with such basic needs. (For instance, perhaps OER Africa is
> better positioned to help address the kind of needs she has.) But it is very
> hard for me to give good advice, when I know so little about local
> conditions!
>
> Can you offer any insights that might help?
>
> -Pete
>
> --
> Pete Forsyth
> Principal, Wiki Strategies
> pete(a)wikistrategies.net
> +1 503-383-9454
> www.wikistrategies.net
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David Richfield - General Secretary: Wikimedia South Africa
[[:en:User:Slashme]]
+27718539985
FYI
David Richfield
+27718539985
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From: "James Forrester" <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: 1 May 2013 19:11
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London
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Dear Wikimedians,
On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and
evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to
London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who
also put forward a solid effort.
We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward
proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the
Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid
for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget
and lower-cost options for attendees.
The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core
budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding
ways to reduce the cost for community attendees.
We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep
aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit
of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited
resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Committee setting
out clearer guidelines on these principles.
The process to bid for hosting Wikimania requires a substantial time
investment, and we thank both candidate teams for their submissions
and hard work.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury
For the Wikimania 2014 Jury
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