[Foundation-l] Update on outreach projects

[Steven Walling]

Thanks for the update Frank.

A quick question: by "significantly increase the quality of Wikipedia's
articles in a particular subject area", do you mean it will develop
something that will help volunteers improve a specific content area, or do
you mean direct work in say, GLAMs or schools?

Thanks,

Steven Walling

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Frank Schulenburg <
frank.schulenburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_view_%28Common_Craft%29-600px-en.ogv
>
> 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
>
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